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
A legacy for
Christchurch
Challenge director Richard Smith reflects on a decade after the February 22 Christchurch earthquake.
Upcoming webinar
Dr Bill Fry and Prof Andy Nicol will introduce the current version of their new synthetic earthquake catalogue, and demonstrate promising new applications.
New managed retreat research
Timely new research by Dr Christina Hanna and colleagues describes different governance options for managed retreat, and recommends an approach most likely to reduce risk and promote justice.
Vacancy: Programme co-leadership position
A co-leadership position has become vacant in the Whanake te Kura programme and we invite expressions of interest to fill the role alongside co-lead Dr Acushla Dee Sciascia (Massey University).
Student profile: Ngawaiata Turnbull
Ngawaiata Turnbull (Tamakaimoana, Ngāi Tuhoe) is exploring language resilience in relation to the unjust invasion of Maungapōhatu, Te Urewera in 1916.
The psychology of earthquake preparedness
Dr Lauren Vinnell graduated last year with her PhD, which examined how people’s thoughts and beliefs about preparing for natural hazards influenced their actual behaviour.
