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Article: Floodplain management in La Crosse, Wisconsin: newspaper discourse vs. floodplain residents' preferences.
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- Focus on Geography
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- June 22, 2008
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Introduction
The United States National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is perhaps one of the most frequently cited models for sharing flood losses by floodplain residents (Arnell 2000, Parker 2000). The 1993 experience of the Great Midwestern flood in the Mississippi-Missouri Basin raised questions about the effectiveness of this model for flood alleviation as the Federal Government had to dole out more than 90% of the cost of recovering flood losses from that catastrophic event (Chagnon 1996 and 2000, Tobin and Montz 1996). One of the reasons for this failure of the NFIP was that less than 10% of the floodplain residents had purchased flood insurance for their ...
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Article: Finding peace between La Crosse, neighbors.
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March 19, 2006 ;
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... ... Campbell, Medary and Shelby and city of La Crosse are a little bit wobbly. But county ... will promote peace and stability between La Crosse and its three neighboring towns. Together ... they do have one thing in common, said La Crosse County Planner Charlie Handy. They ...
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