The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are marketed and sold …

Public safety has been a core responsibility of the US government since its beginning, but
emergency management emerged as part of the government's safety and security mission …

Abstract Authorization for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) expires on
September 30, 2017, offering policymakers an opportunity to rethink the scheme and bring …

The fundamental shift in rating methodology from historical loss costs to catastrophe
modeling for windstorm coverage calls into question the accuracy of rates developed using …

The risk of disaster is an important issue, regionally and globally. In particular, extreme
events create major public policy issues related to catastrophe funding. Governments …

1.1. Background Problems facing urban areas are becoming more complex. Some of these
problems, including housing shortages, economic recession, ecological degradation, and …

Every year, the federal government provides billions of dollars in disaster assistance to
homeowners in the form of subsidized insurance, post-disaster relief, and mitigation grants …

Some believe that humanity's spread around the Earth is a story of “follow the water.”
Evidence suggests humans migrated out of Africa along coastlines, branching inland …

Flooding matters. As the nation's most common natural hazard, flooding costs this nation
economically, disrupts communities and commerce, and renders communities and …