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.
Student profile: Finn Scheele
In his PhD, Finn is researching habitability and population displacement, and what response and recovery actions could help keep communities together.
Student profile: Wagner Costa
Originally from the beautiful island of Florianopolis in southern Brazil, Wagner is currently in his first year of his PhD with Waikato University’s Coastal Marine research group.
Tourism & COVID-19: Webinar recording
If you missed our webinar on ‘Tourism & COVID-19: Opportunities & challenges for rural communities’ you can catch a recording on our YouTube channel
Managed retreat
Our science leader Dr Rob Bell of NIWA joined a panel discussion on RNZ on managed retreat and how new legislation could help.
