Organizational Challenges of Post-Fire Recovery: Decision Making, Collective Action, and Community Outcomes

灾害正在增加，摧毁了美国社区内的房屋和基础设施。 在这些事件之后，政府组织必须就如何重建作出决定，包括通过和执行建筑法规和程序。这些决定将对社区成果产生长期影响，如复原力（减少未来灾害风险）和可持续性（减少气候变化影响）。与此同时，这些组织面临着短期压力，需要迅速和具有成本效益地进行重建，以容纳流离失所的居民。与此同时，房主必须决定是否以及如何重建，包括是否以及如何与其他受影响的房主开会重建。该项目正在研究司法管辖区和房主的信息寻求、决策和重建行动。通过评估长期社区成果并分析这些决策和过程如何影响这些成果，研究结果将有助于为制定和采用建筑规范和流程提供信息，以实现预期的社区成果，并为房主如何在灾难后实现集体目标提供指导。通过进行和分析访谈，会议和信件，项目团队正在描述司法机构如何寻求信息，识别和解决权衡，并做出灾后重建决策;并描述房主的紧急群体如何组织，寻求信息，确定集体目标和重建。 采用模糊集定性比较分析来研究业主的集体群体，然后项目团队将分析过程，结构和决策的组合如何实现或抑制集体目标和成果的进展。最后，项目团队将在住房弹性方面开发新的工程评估（例如，未来火灾风险），可持续性（例如，能量使用和隐含碳），和权宜（例如，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Disasters are increasing, destroying homes and infrastructure within communities in the United States. After these events, governmental organizations must make decisions on how to rebuild, including the adoption and enforcement of building codes and processes. These decisions will have a long-term influence on community outcomes such as resiliency (reducing risks of future disasters) and sustainability (reducing climate change impacts). Simultaneously, these organizations face short-term pressures to rebuild expediently and cost-effectively to accommodate displaced residents. In parallel, homeowners must decide if and how they will rebuild, including whether and how they will convene with other affected homeowners to rebuild. This project is studying information-seeking, decision-making, and actions for rebuilding by jurisdictions and homeowners. By assessing long-term community outcomes and analyzing how these decisions and processes influence these outcomes, findings will help inform the development and adoption of building codes and processes to achieve desired community outcomes and provide guidance on how homeowners can meet collective goals after a disaster. By conducting and analyzing interviews, meetings, and correspondence, the project team is characterizing how jurisdictional organizations seek information, identify and address tradeoffs, and make post-fire rebuilding decisions; and characterizing how emergent groups of homeowners organize, seek information, determine collective goals, and rebuild. Employing fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to study collective groups of homeowners, the project team will then analyze how combinations of process, structure, and decisions enabled or inhibited progress on collective goals and outcomes. Finally, the project team will develop novel engineering assessments in terms of housing’s resiliency (e.g., future fire risk), sustainability (e.g., energy use and embodied carbon), and expediency (e.g., rebuilding time) to perform a cross-case comparison that links organizational decisions and processes to these outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.