Summary
This interdisciplinary project improved a developing tool to help agencies explore the potential effects of policies related to household hurricane risk reduction. The project specifically focused on better understanding the factors that influence homeowner insurance purchase and retrofit decision-making. The tools and policy briefs created are useful to other researchers working with same goal of supporting the development of policies that lead to household hurricane risk reduction.
Investigator

University of Delaware
Other Research Participants/Partners
- Jamie Kruse, Professor, Economics, East Carolina University
- Linda Nozick, Professor, Civil Engineering, Cornell University
- Joseph Trainor, Associate Professor, Public Policy, University of Delaware