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Flood Insurance as a Component of Land Use Management*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Ronald D. Lacewell  and
John G. McNeely
Ronald D. Lacewell
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
John G. McNeely
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
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Floods will continue to cause damage as long as development continues upon flood-prone lands. Inevitably, flooding occurs, damage ensues and there is personal suffering and loss. A burden of rescue and relief operations falls on all taxpayers.

Flood control projects cannot protect against all damage, and not all flood hazard areas are amenable to flood control projects. An alternative to continued construction of engineering works for flood protection is flood plain management. To be effective, this must be brought about through political and legal means. Its purposes are to minimize the consequences of flooding and to achieve, in the long run, an optimum use of the flood plains.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , July 1976 , pp. 175 - 180
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1976

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Technical Article No. 12226 of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

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