Human Costs of Flooding the 1979 'Easter' Flood at Jackson, Mississippi.

Abstract

This IWR support study at the request of the Mobile District is an estimate of human damages (as distinct from property), based on the psychological trauma effects of flooding. Floods distort or interrupt the normal states of the individual and the family. The psychological and behavioral effects of a flood that harm and impair the person can be and are defacto, 'priced' in both legal (e.g. Buffalo Creek) and technical (American Medical Association and Veteran's Admin.) procedures as dysfunctional to society in the entitlement's or social maintenance cost senses implied by NED 'theory.' The report contains an estimation of the monetized 'human' costs of flooding on the Pearl River at Jackson, MS. It also provides a comparative base in the Tug Fork (WV) and Lake Elsinore (CA) cases so that the reader may assess the results for Jackson in an empirical context.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA145125

Entities

People

  • C. E. Simpkins
  • K. A. Alexander
  • L. G. Antle

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Families (Human)
  • Flood Damage
  • Floods
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Medical Personnel
  • Natural Disasters
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Societies
  • Surveys
  • Urban Areas
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Coastal and Marine Engineering/Sediment Transport/Hydraulic Engineering
  • Educational Psychology
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