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After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs
U.S. wildfire activity has increased over the past several decades, disrupting the systems and infrastructure that support community health and resilience. As the cumulative burden of wildfire damage is projected to increase, understanding an effective community recovery process is critically import...
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author | Moloney, Kathleen Vickery, Jamie Hess, Jeremy Errett, Nicole |
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description | U.S. wildfire activity has increased over the past several decades, disrupting the systems and infrastructure that support community health and resilience. As the cumulative burden of wildfire damage is projected to increase, understanding an effective community recovery process is critically important. Through qualitative interviews with leaders of long-term recovery organizations (LTROs), a key component of wildfire recovery, we explored barriers and facilitators to LTROs’ ability to support post-wildfire needs among rural communities. Between February-May 2022, we conducted surveys and semi-structured interviews with 18 leaders from six LTROs serving rural communities in Washington, Oregon, and California impacted by wildfires between 2015–2020. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Framework informed the semi-structured interview guide and a priori codebook, to examine LTROs’ ability to address post-wildfire community needs from a health equity perspective. Additional codes were added through an inductive approach, and emerging themes were identified. Our findings indicate that LTROs face many barriers in addressing community needs post-wildfire, including the policies governing access to and the slow arrival of recovery resources, the intertwined nature of community economic health and built environment restoration, and the challenge of forming a functional LTRO structure. However, participants also identified facilitators of LTROs’ work, including the ability of LTROs and their government partners to adapt policies and procedures, and close collaboration with other community organizations. Factors both internal and external to the community and LTROs’ organizational characteristics influence their ability to address community needs, essential to health, post-wildfire. This study’s findings suggest the need for policy improvements to promote more equitable recovery resource access, that economic recovery should be a core LTRO function, and that recovery planning should be incorporated into community disaster preparedness activities. Future research should focus on LTROs’ role in other contexts and in response to other disasters. |
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spelling | pubmed-102274612023-05-31 After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs Moloney, Kathleen Vickery, Jamie Hess, Jeremy Errett, Nicole Environ Res Health Letter U.S. wildfire activity has increased over the past several decades, disrupting the systems and infrastructure that support community health and resilience. As the cumulative burden of wildfire damage is projected to increase, understanding an effective community recovery process is critically important. Through qualitative interviews with leaders of long-term recovery organizations (LTROs), a key component of wildfire recovery, we explored barriers and facilitators to LTROs’ ability to support post-wildfire needs among rural communities. Between February-May 2022, we conducted surveys and semi-structured interviews with 18 leaders from six LTROs serving rural communities in Washington, Oregon, and California impacted by wildfires between 2015–2020. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Framework informed the semi-structured interview guide and a priori codebook, to examine LTROs’ ability to address post-wildfire community needs from a health equity perspective. Additional codes were added through an inductive approach, and emerging themes were identified. Our findings indicate that LTROs face many barriers in addressing community needs post-wildfire, including the policies governing access to and the slow arrival of recovery resources, the intertwined nature of community economic health and built environment restoration, and the challenge of forming a functional LTRO structure. However, participants also identified facilitators of LTROs’ work, including the ability of LTROs and their government partners to adapt policies and procedures, and close collaboration with other community organizations. Factors both internal and external to the community and LTROs’ organizational characteristics influence their ability to address community needs, essential to health, post-wildfire. This study’s findings suggest the need for policy improvements to promote more equitable recovery resource access, that economic recovery should be a core LTRO function, and that recovery planning should be incorporated into community disaster preparedness activities. Future research should focus on LTROs’ role in other contexts and in response to other disasters. IOP Publishing 2023-06-01 2023-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10227461/ /pubmed/37260862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/acd2f7 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
spellingShingle | Letter Moloney, Kathleen Vickery, Jamie Hess, Jeremy Errett, Nicole After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title | After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title_full | After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title_fullStr | After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title_full_unstemmed | After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title_short | After the fire: A qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
title_sort | after the fire: a qualitative study of the role of long-term recovery organizations in addressing rural communities’ post-wildfire needs |
topic | Letter |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10227461/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37260862 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2752-5309/acd2f7 |
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