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Psychosocial factors in disaster recovery
This brief focusses on psychosocial issues that may arise immediately post-disaster and how to best address the impact and reduce ongoing distress.
Knowledge, perceptions, and behavioural responses to earthquake early warning in Aotearoa
We undertook surveys following two widely received alerts from the Android Earthquake Alert System to assess public knowledge, perceptions, and responses to these alerts.
Measuring the impact of food rescue: A social return on investment analysis
How food rescue creates value for food donors, recipient organisations, volunteers, and recipients, suggesting that every $1 spent delivers $4.50 in social value.
How Visual Design of Severe Weather Outlooks Can Affect Communication and Decision-Making
Severe weather outlooks can be complex to visualise. Results of a survey are presented, demonstrating how visualisation can affect comprehension and decision-making about severe weather.
Women and Cyclone
As natural disasters become more frequent, the role of women in recovery needs to be recognised and adequately supported.
Social media use by multiple stakeholders and rightsholders during the Fort McMurray wildfires
This chapter highlights social media use during the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire, in the province of Alberta, Canada. The case study offers examples of how officials, affected populations, and volunteers used social media during their response to the wildfire and discusses the benefits of these practices for the response effort.
Nurturing Partnerships to Support Data Access for Impact Forecasts and Warnings: Theoretical Integration and Synthesis
Recommendations to increase interagency communication and partnerships to improve the communication of hazards and risks through impact forecasts and warnings.
Meet EDDIE – QuakeCoRE’s new earthquake test dummy
Crash test dummies can be used to estimate the injury potential for different impact forces related to earthquake shaking, and inform safety enhancements.
Natural hazard planning by New Zealand’s local government: a review of regional policy statements and district plans
Have 2017 RMA amendments aligned Regional Policy Statements and selected District Plans in adopting a ‘risk-based planning approach’ to natural hazards.
Accessing primary healthcare during COVID-19: health messaging during lockdown
An analysis of messaging from government, media and local GP clinics to understand how people were advised to seek care for non-COVID-19 health concerns.
Insurance and disaster recovery
This brief focusses on insurance issues in Aotearoa New Zealand related to disaster recovery.
Decisions, options, and actions in the face of uncertainty: a systematic bibliometric and thematic review of climate adaptation pathways
A systematic review identifying and assessing Adaptation Pathways (APs) as roadmaps to support planning in the face of climate change-related uncertainty.