Project Description
The Marshall Fire destroyed over a thousand homes when it swept across Louisville, Superior, and Unincorporated Boulder County. Following the fire, decisions have to be made at the jurisdiction, community, and individual level surrounding rebuilding, including implementing design and construction decisions for sustainability and resiliency in the face of future disasters while balancing cost, schedule, and equity considerations. These complex decisions involve the interests of multiple stakeholders.
This project focuses on tracking the discussions at the jurisdictional level that lead to decisions on sustainability and resiliency. It will identify the factors that influenced the decisions and the impact on recovery outcomes. We are particularly interested in the processes of information seeking and assessing tradeoffs, on the road to making decisions.
We will engage with jurisdiction leaders and community members through community rebuilding meetings, interviews, and fieldwork to understand the decision-making process. We will collect qualitative data through this work that we will qualitatively code in order to identify themes and factors across the decision-making process.
Disaster Recovery and Resiliency projects
Special Requirements
Student must be interested in watching/attending meetings and collecting and analyzing qualitative information and be interesting in codes for rebuilding.
Contact
- Amy Javernick-Will (faculty)
- Abbie Liel (faculty)
- Megan Ellery (graduate student)