IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/adspcp/978-3-319-14322-4_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Protection of the Los Angeles Floodplain

In: Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

Author

Listed:
  • Harry W. Richardson

    (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico)

  • Peter Gordon

    (University of Southern California)

  • Myung-Jin Jun

    (Chung-Ang University)

  • James E. Moore

    (University of Southern California)

Abstract

This chapter examines the local and regional economic impacts of the imposition of FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) new construction regulations and flood insurance requirements proposed in 1990 on ten cities in the Los Angeles County floodplain (Bellflower, Bell Gardens, Carson, Compton, Downey, Lakewood, Long Beach, Paramount, Pico Rivera and South Gate). The goal of FEMA requirements was to protect against the effects of a “100 year flood”, i.e. a catastrophic flood that has a 1 % probability of occurring in any year.

Suggested Citation

  • Harry W. Richardson & Peter Gordon & Myung-Jin Jun & James E. Moore, 2015. "Protection of the Los Angeles Floodplain," Advances in Spatial Science, in: Harry W. Richardson & Qisheng Pan & JiYoung Park & James E. Moore II (ed.), Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 97-114, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-319-14322-4_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14322-4_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:adspcp:978-3-319-14322-4_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.