Dam it all: Dams and levees are the usual answer to flooding, but they're not always the right answer. So why do we keep building them?

Douglas Clement

Fedgazette, 2001, vol. 13, issue Sep, 4-5

Keywords: Natural disasters; Expenditures, Public; Public policy; Floods; Federal Reserve District, 9th (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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