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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Flood Insurance"”.
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Flooded with Possibilities: Analyzing Flood Insurance as a Catalyst for Development in Southeast Florida
… perpetual growth can withstand the tightening flooding policies. Is the residential market immune to the decisions made by insurance companies and the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)? These uncertainties form the basis of this thesis, which delves into the factors influencing insurance …
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Homeowner willingness to pay for a pre-flood buyout agreement
Flood events are expected to increase in frequency and severity as climate change raises sea levels and intensifies regional precipitation events. The only permanent means of removing high risk homes from flood prone areas is through homeowner buyout programs. Using an online contingent valuation …
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Quantifying the Impact of Remapping Floodplains on Residential Property Values in Snohomish County, Washington: A Hedonic Approach
<p>Flood events are the most common and costly natural disasters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) quantifies flood risks in the form of Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS). These FIRMS delineate flood risks and are used to set flood insurance premiums. Changes in land use, the …
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Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Policy
… on private information in the market for flood insurance. Using detailed flood insurance policy microdata and newly available estimates of flood risk, I develop a measure of excess flood risk not used by the insurer to price insurance policies. I then use this measure as the basis for an …
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Development and Evaluation of the Profile Synthesis Method for Approximate Floodplain Redelineation
In the United States, the floodplain maps used in the administration of the National Flood Insurance Program are created and maintained by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Currently, a nationwide map modernization program is underway to convert the existing paper floodplain maps into a …
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Improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management studies
… for improving the economic evaluation of flood risk management (FRM) studies. The most common types of FRM infrastructure in the United States (U.S.) are dams and levees. The FRM infrastructure in the U.S. is aging with a large number of dams and levees now more than 50 years old and in …
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A Data Fusion Framework for Floodplain Analysis using GIS and Remotely Sensed Data
Throughout history floods have been part of the human experience. They are recurring phenomena that form a necessary and enduring feature of all river basin and lowland coastal systems. In an average year, they benefit millions of people who depend on them. In the more developed countries, major …
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Mapping under uncertainity : spatial politics, urban development, and the future of coastal flood risk
Flooding is the most common and single largest source of disaster-caused property damage in the United States. The past year, 2017, was the costliest for weather and climate disasters in US history. To mitigate these losses, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and National Flood Insurance …
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Intergovernmental Collaboration in Emergency Management: The Case of the September 2009 Georgia Flood
… to, and recovered from the September 2009 flood. There are several important mechanisms for intergovernmental collaboration; among them are the national incident management system, the incident command system, and the emergency management assistance compact. During disasters these …
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Mapping and Qualitative Data Collection for People-First Floodplain Buyout Processes Harris County, TX 2000-2021
Federally funded floodplain buyouts are a nonstructural flood mitigation practice that uses federal grants to remove people and businesses from flood-prone areas to end financial strain on the National Flood Insurance Program. Past research indicates that the selection processes of buyouts made by …
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Essays on the Economics of Environmental and Health Risk
… physical destruction is mitigated with property insurance, which can be purchased from the federal government (for floods) or private insurers (for wildfires). In the first two essays, I study the effectiveness of government policies recommending screening ages and regulating floodplain …
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Essays on Real Estate, Flood Risk, and Political Sentiment
… chapters that investigate how climate change, flood risk, and political sentiment influence outcomes in housing markets.</p> <p>Chapter 1: This chapter offers a brief review and discussion of several recent and seminal papers at the intersection of flood risk, climate change, and real estate, …
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MODELLING, ASSESSMENT, AND REDUCTION OF FLOOD RISK IN NEPAL
There is a lack of modelling methods for flood risk assessment models that are applied for data-scarce flood-prone areas and where flood risk is quantified as economic damage. In addition, there is a lack of flood risk assessment models towards flood risk reduction in data-scarce flood-prone areas …
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Essays on Finance and Climate Risk
… how residential mortgage contracts distribute flood risk exposures across banks, households, and the government flood insurer. I find that banks offload flood risk to the government through flood insurance contracts, and to households through higher required down payments. This credit rationing …
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Enhancing Community Risk Preparedness for Flooding Emergencies: A System Dynamics Approach for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Flooding events pose a significant and growing threat to communities in the United States, particularly as climate change alters weather patterns and sea levels continue to rise. This thesis examines how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) can enhance community preparedness for flood …
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Public Housing on Risky Ground: A National Study of Flood Risk and Two Case Studies Investigating the Legacy of Environmental Inequality
… are exposed to natural hazards, including flooding and sinkholes, and how they can be protected. Using a multilevel model, the first study finds that census tracts with higher concentrations of subsidized housing have greater exposure to flooding, particularly in inland regions and …
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Weathering the storms : new suburban typology for coastal cities through a case study on Winthrop, MA
… are becoming more vulnerable to storm surges and flooding. This is especially problematic in the U.S. where the population is concentrated and is on the rise along the coasts. Properties of high total value are also at risk. Various flood mitigation strategies have been implemented domestically …
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An Improved Algorithmic Approach to Iterative Floodway Modeling using HECRAS and GIS
… commonly used to perform hydraulic analysis for floodplain delineation studies. In addition to floodplains, the hydraulic analysis also includes modeling a floodway in detailed floodplain study areas. Floodway modeling is an iterative process in which the 1% annual chance flood discharge is …
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Floodplain Risk Analysis Using Flood Probability and Annual Exceedance Probability Maps
… and model uncertainty on the extents of computed floodplain boundaries. The first approach represents the floodplain boundary as a spatial map of flood probabilities -- with values between 0 and 100%. Instead of representing the floodplain boundary at a certain recurrence interval as a single …
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The impact of flooding on the value of residential property in the UK
Flooding of residential property is a real and growing phenomenon in the UK causing short and long-term detriment of various kinds to its victims. The issue of potential decrease in value of those properties which are located on the floodplain, though much discussed in the media, has received scant …
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