The Resilience Challenge
One of the most ambitious initiatives undertaken by New Zealand to develop and apply new scientific solutions to transform our response, recovery and “bounce-back” from our wide diversity of natural hazards.
What we do
The challenge
To enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.
Science
All over the country our scientists are investigating how we can build New Zealand’s resilience.
Co-creation
Working with stakeholders and end-users to ensure our research is useful and usable.
Managed retreat; unpacking the ‘black box’
Low-lying coastal communities around New Zealand will need to start embracing managed retreat as climate change and sea-level rise continue to encroach on and erode our coasts.
Reclaiming Māori oral histories to understand tsunami hazard and history
Exploring Māori ancestral experience with tsunami(s) on Rangitoto (D’Urville Island) as described in a ‘folk tale’ called the Rival Wizards.
Student profile: Cuong Nguyen
Cuong’s PhD projects include investigating how insurance impacted residential recovery after the Canterbury quakes, and how coastal hazard perception is impacting property values on the Kāpiti Coast.
Building the resilience of local economies to the flow-on impacts of natural hazard events
The direct impacts of natural hazard events often lead to substantial indirect impacts when goods or services are suddenly not able to be produced, purchased or transported.