Governance Capacity Towards Floods: the provision and social impacts of FEMA grants

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Title
Governance Capacity Towards Floods: the provision and social impacts of FEMA grants
Description
In this thesis, I consider the effect of climate change related flooding threats on relations between national, state, and local governments. I examine the relationship between previous FEMA claims of property losses experienced by Massachusetts cities and towns and the future fiscal dependence of such local governments on FEMA. I also examine how more or less
fiscal dependence on FEMA and other federal funding may result in more or less use of local exclusionary land use regulations. My thesis finds that property losses from previous floods increase the local government’s financial dependence on FEMA and generally the federal government, and this increased dependence has bifurcated results regarding local exclusionary land use regulations.
Creator
Deng, Luchuan
Subject
Urban planning
Land use planning
Public policy
Contributor
Kayden, Jerold JK
Date
2022-06-09T04:06:33Z
2022
2022-06-08
2022-05
2022-06-09T04:06:33Z
Type
Thesis or Dissertation
text
Format
application/pdf
application/pdf
Identifier
Deng, Luchuan. 2022. Governance Capacity Towards Floods: the provision and social impacts of FEMA grants. Master's thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
29211793
https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37372344
0000-0001-5809-4095
Language
en