Flood insurance and relief in the U.S. and Britain.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Natural hazard research working paper ; 68Publication details: 1990Description: 37p., 3 tables, 67 refsSubject(s): Subject: Briefly examines the different roles government can adopt in loss redistribution. Two of the seven identified approaches are examined further using the United States and Britain as contrasting examples. All approaches raise serious questions about the proper role for industrialized countries about the proper role of government, about equity, and about the desirablility of special disaster provisions.
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This paper is a modified version of Chapter 3 of Flood insurance in Australia by D. I. Smith and J. W. Handmer (Ed's), Canberra : Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1989
Briefly examines the different roles government can adopt in loss redistribution. Two of the seven identified approaches are examined further using the United States and Britain as contrasting examples. All approaches raise serious questions about the proper role for industrialized countries about the proper role of government, about equity, and about the desirablility of special disaster provisions.
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