The Resilience Challenge
The mission of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge is to accelerate Aotearoa New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards through innovative, collaborative research.
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.
News & stories
PhD scholarship: Homelessness
An exciting opportunity in our Resilience in Practice programme to explore the relationship between homelessness and disaster risk reduction.
New Urban Resilience projects funded
The Urban programme has announced successful projects in their Urban Resilience Innovation & Collaboration Hub contestable funding round.
New volcano mapping
Dr Gabor Kereszturi of Massey University has produced the first maps of Mt Ruapehu using hyperspectral remote sensing technology.
Q&A with Prof Tim Sullivan
We get to know Prof Tim Sullivan of the University of Canterbury, who co-leads our Built Environment programme, with a focus on Vertical Infrastructure (buildings).
Data sensors help identify tourist risk
PhD student Mat Darling is using new data sources to track real time movements of tourists, in order to help emergency managers plan more accurately for natural hazard event response in tourist hotspots.
