Paying the price : the status and role of insurance against natural disasters in the United States, Howard Kunreuther, Richard J. Roth, Sr., editors

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Paying the price : the status and role of insurance against natural disasters in the United States, Howard Kunreuther, Richard J. Roth, Sr., editors

Title remainder

the status and role of insurance against natural disasters in the United States

Statement of responsibility

Howard Kunreuther, Richard J. Roth, Sr., editors

Instantiates

• Paying the price : the status and role of insurance against natural disasters in the United States

Publication

• Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 1998

Note

A collection of 9 essays

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index

Carrier category

online resource

Carrier category code

• cr

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Color

multicolored

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Introduction / Howard Kunreuther -- Insurability conditions and the supply of coverage / Howard Kunreuther -- Demand for disaster insurance; residential coverage / Risa Palm -- Earthquake insurance protection in California / Richar J. Roth, Jr. -- Hurricane insurance protection in Florida / Eugene Lecomte and Karen Gahagan -- The national flood insurance program / Edward T. Pasterick -- Mitigation and insurance / William Petak -- Regulation and catastrophe insurance / Robert Klein -- A program for reducing disaster losses through insurance / Howard Kunreuther -- Commercial insurance / Eugene Lecomte -- Evaluating models of risks from natural hazards / Craig Taylor, Erik VanMarcke, and Jim Davis -- Book links to the World Wide Web / Charles Nyce

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42854191

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unknown

Extent

1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages)

Form of item

online

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9780309063616

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computer

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rdamedia

Media type code

• c

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illustrations

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.b130963549

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remote

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(OCoLC)42854191