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

火灾后恢复的组织挑战：决策、集体行动和社区成果

• 批准号: 2218181
• 负责人: Amy Javernick-Will
• 金额: $ 42.81万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2218181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Organizational; Challenges; Post; Fire; Recovery

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.

灾难正在增加，摧毁了美国社区内的房屋和基础设施。在这些事件之后，政府组织必须决定如何重建，包括采用和执行建筑规范和流程。这些决策将对复原力（减少未来灾害的风险）和可持续性（减少气候变化影响）等社区成果产生长期影响。同时，这些组织面临短期压力，需要迅速和经济有效地进行重建，以容纳流离失所的居民。与此同时，房主必须决定他们是否以及如何重建，包括他们是否以及如何与其他受影响的房主一起重建。该项目正在研究司法管辖区和房主的信息搜集、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流程如何影响这些成果，研究结果将有助于为建筑规范和流程的制定和采用提供信息，以实现预期的社区成果，并为房主如何在灾后实现集体目标提供指导。通过进行和分析访谈、会议和通信，项目团队正在描述管辖组织如何寻求信息、识别和处理权衡，并做出火灾后重建决策；并描述了新兴的房主群体是如何组织起来、寻找信息、确定集体目标和重建的。采用模糊集定性比较分析来研究业主群体，项目团队将分析过程、结构和决策的组合如何促进或抑制集体目标和结果的进展。最后，项目团队将在住房的弹性（例如，未来的火灾风险）、可持续性（例如，能源使用和碳排放）和权宜之计（例如，重建时间）方面开发新的工程评估，以执行跨案例比较，将组织决策和流程与这些结果联系起来。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。