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<br />Jecision makers intent upon improving federal flood policy, it is likely that the
<br />Jnited States will persist in a state of knowing what to do about floods, but not
<br />Joing it.
<br />We, as a society, have invested considerable effort and suffered much hard ex-
<br />i,erience to learn the lessons of floods. The time is now appropriate to seek to ask
<br />jnd answer why those lessons have not always been effectively linked to policy
<br />Jction. Overcoming the obstacles Lo improved societal response to floods will be
<br />rar more complex than simply exposing persistent misconceptions. Nevertheless,
<br />through a discussion of such fallacies, what they are, their deleterious effects, and
<br />why they persist, previously unseen opportunities for action may develop.
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<br />Acknowledgements
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<br />The author gratefully acknowledges helpful discussions with and comments on
<br />an earlier draft from Mary Fran Myers, Frank Thomas, Gilbert White, and three
<br />anonymous reviewers. Frank Richards of the National Weather Center provided
<br />the casualty and economic data. The research reported in this paper was supported
<br />by the National Science Foundation.
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