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Background
The Community Capacity and Environment program focuses on building capacity in rural and underserved communities to address wildfire protection, increasing awareness about the relationships between wildfire and rural poverty, and providing resources for community efforts in fire and forest restoration. This program also examines broader relationships between natural disaster mitigation and social vulnerability.
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Community Fire Planning |
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Resource Innovations provides technical assistance to communities and counties working on Community Wildfire Protection Plans. The approach is focused on building capacity within local organizations and agencies to address a range of issues related to wildfire protection, forest restoration and stewardship contracting, and to assist low-income communities and citizens with special needs into reduce their risk to wildfire. |
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Wildfire & Poverty |
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Resource Innovations is collaborating with the National Network of Forest Practitioners and the U.S. Forest Service to examine community capacity and wildfire risk. |
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Wildfire & Tribes |
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In 2004, Resource Innovations completed a needs assessment to gauge the wildfire protection and prevention needs of federally recognized tribes in the Pacific Northwest. As a follow up to needs assessment recommendations, Resource Innovations is developing a Tribal Wildfire Resource Guide. |
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Social Vulnerability & Natural Hazards |
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Understanding factors such as poverty, gender and race that can contribute to the vulnerability of a community to losses from natural hazards can help in identifying strategies to reduce risk and potential losses from disasters. |
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