Modeling national flood insurance policy holding at the county scale in Florida, 1999–2005
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a Department of Sociology, Colorado State University, B235 Clark Building, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1784, United States b Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523-1771, United States c Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137, United States d Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3137, United States
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