Local Government

Local government 

Using a mixed-methods (survey and interview) approach, the local government study engaged public employees in Carbon, Park, Stillwater, and Yellowstone (MT) Counties and attempted to address two central research questions:

How do local government officials across the disaster-impacted landscape conceptualize community recovery?

What do local government leaders believe is necessary to build future disaster and community resiliency? 

2023 YSF Local Government (NHC) Final Report.pdf

What did we learn?

Explore findings discussed in the first publication from this study, Making us Whole Again? Lessons from Montana Disaster Recovery. The report is also available on the Natural Hazards Center Quick Response Research Reports website.