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Community capacity and collaborative wildfire planning: the role of capacity in acquiring federal mitigation grant funding

dc.contributor.authorRyan, Benjamin, author
dc.contributor.authorScott, Ryan, advisor
dc.contributor.authorGoes, Iasmin, committee member
dc.contributor.authorBurkhardt, Jesse, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-01T11:23:56Z
dc.date.available2024-01-01T11:23:56Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractSince the passage of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act two decades ago, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) have become the predominant planning tool for community preparedness, risk mitigation, and response; improving coordination between governments, natural resource management agencies, and residents; give communities the ability access federal grant funding programs in the Western United States. Research on CWPPs has mainly been the focus of case studies, with relatively few large-scale studies to understand how a community's biophysical, socio-economic, vulnerability, and social conditions account for the variation in federal grant allocation. This study includes over 1,000 CWPPs in 11 states to evaluate the conditions that precipitate the allocation of grant funds for risk mitigation and community resilience. Through the estimation of a Binomial Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation Model to estimate the probability of winning grant funds based on the included indicators. Findings indicate that grant winnings are closely correlated with biophysical risk, financial capacity, and CWPP Update status, while socially vulnerable communities were more likely not to receive grant funds. However, we fail to find evidence that social capital affects the likelihood of winning grant funds. These findings suggest a need for a more equitable distribution of federal grant funds to mitigate wildfire risk properly.
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dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierRyan_colostate_0053N_18074.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237349
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectcollaboration governance
dc.subjectwestern U.S.
dc.subjectcapacity
dc.subjectwildfire
dc.subjectCWPP
dc.titleCommunity capacity and collaborative wildfire planning: the role of capacity in acquiring federal mitigation grant funding
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thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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