Flow-on Impacts

Natural hazards can directly and indirectly impact infrastructure, businesses, and communities, which are interconnected in complex ways. Focusing on the 11 Territorial Authorities in the Waikato region, we asked: ‘How do these interconnections affect the resilience of local economies to natural hazards?’ This study has helped develop a transferable method for identifying resilience-enhancing characteristics of local economies and ‘hot spots’ (critical industry sectors and inter-regional links) that amplify the flow-on impacts from natural hazards through the economy. The results provide a greater level of detail which is needed to support local government and communities in prioritising resilience-building strategies.

Read more about this project here.