ABSTRACT
Despite these limitations, this study contributes to the literature on the NFIP and CRS in particular and natural hazard risk reduction in general. We urge researchers to take this national level study a step further by exploring some additional hypotheses about local flood risk map changes, social capital and political activism, and learning from neighboring communities. In addition, decomposing total CRS scores to determine whether different factors motivate communities to focus on some types of activities more than others, can shed light on program efficacy, as well as feasibility of alternative risk management strategies. For example, it would be interesting to know whether high flood-risk communities focus on Series 300 (informational items) more than Series 500 (mostly structural measures).
