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.
The AF8+ scenario
Hazard programme researchers have been working to extend Project AF8’s 7-day hazard impact scenario to 10 years post-quake, in order to assess the longer-term impacts on response and recovery.
World Tsunami Awareness Day 2018
Tsunami researchers Lucy Carter and Kristie-Lee Thomas help us understand and prepare for tsunami.
Student profile: Katherine Hore
Kat is spending long periods of time living in Franz Josef to investigate the different initiatives being undertaken by and with residents to reduce hazard risk.
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.