Vision
For resilience planners in Aotearoa New Zealand to have quantified and accurate assessments of the financial, social and environmental impacts of natural hazards.
Project description
The MERIT (Measuring the Economics of Resilient Infrastructure) decision support tool was developed to help resilience planners estimate the economic consequences of disruptive events. We are improving MERIT to capture more impacts of natural hazard events and provide insights into the changing nature of these impacts. Our research is organised into three sub-projects:
Our goal is for MERIT to provide resilience decision-makers with a robust decision support system that gives them a broad and detailed understanding of the changing financial, social and environmental impacts of natural hazards.
Juan J. Monge, Nicola McDonald, Garry W. McDonald, A review of graphical methods to map the natural hazard-to-wellbeing risk chain in a socio-ecological system, Science…
McDonald GW, Kingi TT, Kim JH, Dowling L, Journeaux P, Dunningham A, Wakelin S, Monge J, Hock B. 2021. Assessing the economic implications of land…
Cardwell RJ, McDonald GW, Wotherspoon LM. 2020. Simulation of post-volcanic eruption time variant land use and economic impacts in the Auckland region of New Zealand.…
Smith N, McDonald G, Kim J-H, Ayers M, Brown C, Seville E. 2017. Wellington Resilience Programme Business Case: Modelling the Economics of Resilient Infrastructure Tool…
Market Economics Limited. 2017. Economic impact of the 2016 Kaikoura earthquake. Auckland (NZ): Market Economics Limited. 56 p. Prepared for Ministry of Transport
Yonson R, Noy I, Ivory VC, Bowie C. 2020. Earthquake-induced transportation disruption and economic performance: the experience of Christchurch, New Zealand. Journal of Transport Geography.…
Cardwell RJ, McDonald GW, Wotherspoon LM. 2020. Simulation of post-volcanic eruption time variant land use and economic impacts in the Auckland region of New Zealand.…
McDonald NJ, McDonald GW. 2020. Towards a dynamic equilibrium-seeking model of a closed economy. Systems. 8(4):42. doi:10.3390/systems8040042.
McDonald GW, Smith NJ, Kim J-h, Cronin SJ, Proctor JN. 2017. The spatial and temporal ‘cost’ of volcanic eruptions: assessing economic impact, business inoperability, and…
McDonald GW, Cronin SJ, Kim JH, Smith NJ, Murray CA, Procter JN. 2017. Computable general equilibrium modelling of economic impacts from volcanic event scenarios at…
McDonald GW, Smith NJ, Kim J-H, Brown C, Buxton R, Seville E. 2018. Economic systems modelling of infrastructure interdependencies for an Alpine Fault earthquake in…
Knowling MJ, White JT, McDonald GW, Kim J-H, Moore CR, Hemmings B. 2020. Disentangling environmental and economic contributions to hydro-economic model output uncertainty: An example…