Flood disaster management policy: an analysis of the United States Community Ratings System
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In this article, the authors identify factors motivating both communities' decision to participate and intensity of participation in the Community Ratings System (CRS) and find that local capacity, flood risk factors, socio-economic characteristics, and political economy factors are significant predictors of CRS participation.Abstract:
In 1990 the US Federal Emergency Management Agency created the Community Ratings System (CRS) to engage local governments to enhance community flood resilience. The CRS encourages community flood risk management activities by discounting flood insurance premiums commensurate with the level of flood management measures implemented. Using a national sample of communities, this study empirically identifies factors motivating both communities’ decision to participate and intensity of participation in the CRS. The results indicate that local capacity, flood risk factors, socio-economic characteristics, and political economy factors are significant predictors of CRS participation. Further, factors predicting participation in the CRS differ from factors predicting CRS scores.read more
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A review of the community flood risk management literature in the USA: lessons for improving community resilience to floods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified seven practical lessons that, if implemented, could not only help flood management decision-makers better understand communities' flood risks, but could also reduce the impacts of flood disasters and improve communities' resilience to future flood disasters.
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Local capacity and resilience to flooding: community responsiveness to the community ratings system program incentives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of CRS and its tiered incentive structure and investigate the extent to which communities are responding strategically to CRS incentives and the characteristics of those communities behaving strategically.
Local capacity and resilience to flooding: community responsiveness to the community ratings system program incentives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the performance of CRS and its tiered incentive structure and investigate the extent to which communities are responding strategically to CRS incentives and the characteristics of those communities behaving strategically.
A review of the community flood risk management literature in the USA: lessons for improving community resilience to floods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified seven practical lessons that, if implemented, could not only help flood management decision-makers better understand communities' flood risks, but could also reduce the impacts of flood disasters and improve communities' resilience to future flood disasters.
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Flood Risk Management: Exploring the Impacts of the Community Rating System Program on Poverty and Income Inequality.
TL;DR: The study estimates four fixed-effects regression models using a panel data set of neighborhood-level observations from 1970 to 2010 and results indicate that median incomes are lower in CRS communities, but rise in floodplains, and the CRS encourages income inequality, but discourages income inequality in Floodplains.
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