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Flood Damage Avoided by Potential Spending on Property-Level Adaptations: Working Paper 2024-03

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  • Evan Herrnstadt
  • Jared Jageler

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This working paper provides an estimate of the potential damage avoided from spending by governments and homeowners on property-level flood risk adaptations, primarily buyouts and elevations. The literature on that topic offers some estimates, but they are difficult to compare and apply across contexts because they analyze different adaptation measures, cover different geographic scopes, and use different modeling approaches. To provide a set of internally consistent estimates, therefore, we develop a nationwide framework using inland and coastal residential properties that

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  • Evan Herrnstadt & Jared Jageler, 2024. "Flood Damage Avoided by Potential Spending on Property-Level Adaptations: Working Paper 2024-03," Working Papers 58168, Congressional Budget Office.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbo:wpaper:58168
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    1. Mahkameh Zarekarizi & Vivek Srikrishnan & Klaus Keller, 2020. "Neglecting Uncertainties Biases House-Elevation Decisions to Manage Riverine Flood Risks," Papers 2001.06457, arXiv.org, revised Sep 2020.
    2. Mahkameh Zarekarizi & Vivek Srikrishnan & Klaus Keller, 2020. "Neglecting uncertainties biases house-elevation decisions to manage riverine flood risks," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, December.
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    • H84 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Disaster Aid
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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