A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Risk Perceptions and Flood Insurance: Insights from Homeowners on the Georgia Coast
Scholars highlight a wide array of factors that can influence individual decision-making under risk. Utilizing survey data, we explore many potential factors that affect risk perception and protective behaviors. Our focus is on coastal Georgia, which has lower historical risk relative to the rest of the Southeast U.S., and which many people perceive as relatively safe, but was recently adversely affected by two major storms. The results indicate a majority of coastal residents expect coastal storms and other hazards to be worse in the future. The regression results suggest perceived damages, risk tolerance, wealth exposure, and flood zone are robust determinants of flood insurance purchase. Other factors, like flood zone awareness and attitudes towards community risk management initiatives—like shoreline armoring, beach replenishment, and coastal retreat—are also indicated to have a high correlation with flood insurance purchase.
Risk Perceptions and Flood Insurance: Insights from Homeowners on the Georgia Coast
Scholars highlight a wide array of factors that can influence individual decision-making under risk. Utilizing survey data, we explore many potential factors that affect risk perception and protective behaviors. Our focus is on coastal Georgia, which has lower historical risk relative to the rest of the Southeast U.S., and which many people perceive as relatively safe, but was recently adversely affected by two major storms. The results indicate a majority of coastal residents expect coastal storms and other hazards to be worse in the future. The regression results suggest perceived damages, risk tolerance, wealth exposure, and flood zone are robust determinants of flood insurance purchase. Other factors, like flood zone awareness and attitudes towards community risk management initiatives—like shoreline armoring, beach replenishment, and coastal retreat—are also indicated to have a high correlation with flood insurance purchase.
Risk Perceptions and Flood Insurance: Insights from Homeowners on the Georgia Coast
Craig Landry (author) / Dylan Turner (author)
2020
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
Metadata by DOAJ is licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0
Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners
| Online Contents | 2005
Involving Homeowners in Flood Mitigation
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 1986
Hurricane risk perceptions among Florida's single family homeowners
| Elsevier | 2004
Indiana Contractor Helps Homeowners Following Flood
Online Contents | 1994
Homeowners harvest rain and flood water
| Online Contents | 2008