IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/envirb/v16y1989i1p7-22.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Private Profit and Public Safety as Outcomes of Local Land-Use Regulation

Author

Listed:
  • S A Bollens

    (Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA)

  • E J Kaiser
  • R J Burby

Abstract

Consistent with requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), over 17000 local governments in the USA have enacted local floodplain-management programs. This paper is an analysis of whether and to what extent these local riverine regulatory policies decrease riverbank development and increase the use of protective site-design and construction measures. To address these questions, 106 developers and builders were surveyed in ten cities having floodplain policies of varying strengths. It is found that floodplain policy has a negligible effect on whether development does or does not occur in a floodplain. Such programs, however, do have significant effects on the extent to which structures built in the floodplain are protected from future flood damage.

Suggested Citation

  • S A Bollens & E J Kaiser & R J Burby, 1989. "Private Profit and Public Safety as Outcomes of Local Land-Use Regulation," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 16(1), pages 7-22, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:16:y:1989:i:1:p:7-22
    DOI: 10.1068/b160007
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/b160007
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1068/b160007?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Noonan, Douglas S. & Sadiq, Abdul-Akeem, 2019. "Community-scale Flood Risk Management: Effects of a Voluntary National Program on Migration and Development," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 157(C), pages 92-99.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:sae:envirb:v:16:y:1989:i:1:p:7-22. 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: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    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.