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: Alistair Davies
Alistair’s research focuses on increasing the resilience of potentially-isolated communities like Kaikōura and Franz Josef.
How can we keep the lights on during and after a natural disaster?
We assume that electricity will be available when we want to use it, but what if an earthquake, storm or volcanic eruption hits and a blackout follows?