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Building resilience through recovery: investment decision-making
Incorporating resilience considerations into disaster recovery and re-establishment of critical infrastructure.
Creatively Destructive Hurricanes: Do Disasters Spark Innovation?
Is innovative activity driven by shocks? Study data suggests hurricanes lead to temporary boost in damage-mitigating patents a few years after the event.
Modelling Disruption
How the MERIT took helps communities understand the social and economic impacts of disruptive events, and assess mitigation options.
To cordon or not to cordon: the inherent complexities of post-earthquake cordoning learned from Christchurch and Wellington experiences.
Shrestha S, Orchiston C, Elwood K, Johnston D, Becker J. 2021. To cordon or not to cordon: the inherent complexities of post-earthquake cordoning learned from…
Development of statistical downscaling model based on Volterra series realization, principal components and ridge regression
A new statistical approach combining principal component analysis (PCA) and ridge regression provides better models of climate change impacts.
Formulating a 100-year strategy for managing coastal hazard risk in a changing climate: Lessons learned from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
A thematic analysis of key themes and lessons.
Enhancing disaster risk governance for small-scale recurring disasters through pre-determining emergency response and recovery entry points for improved social outcomes
This paper investigates how response and recovery approaches in New Zealand account for small-scale recurring disasters, and how these could be improved to support adaptation.
Laboratory Experiments on Tsunamigenic Discrete Subaqueous Volcanic Eruptions. Part 1: Free Surface Disturbances
Y. Shen, C. Whittaker, E.M. Lane, J.D.L. White, W.Power, P. Nomikou, 2021. Laboratory Experiments on Tsunamigenic Discrete Subaqueous Volcanic Eruptions. Part 1: Free Surface Disturbances.…
Queering “Gender and Disaster” for Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction
This paper proposes disaster scholars adopt a more inclusive and complex understand of gender, to contribute to more effective disaster risk reduction policies and practices.


