A multijurisdictional approach to predicting benefit-cost ratios for flood retention wetlands in rural Iowa

Rural Iowa towns often lack flood mitigation because of a lack of resources and inability to compete for federal assistance funds. The Federal Emergency Management Agency relies on a benefit-cost analysis which produces benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) for proposed projects to determine which communities...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brourman, Max E.
Other Authors: Just, Craig L.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2019
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6917
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=8329&context=etd