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Challenge Lifetime Summary
A summary of Resilience Challenge achievements and impacts over ten years of collaborative research
Bridging gaps between disaster risk reduction and drowning prevention
L. Le Dé 2024 Bridging gaps between disaster risk reduction and drowning prevention International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104445
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.
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.
SMART Resilient Communities
Technology is transforming the communities we live in. How can we harness technology to help build our resilience to natural hazards and disasters?
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.
Creating a ‘planning emergency levels of service’ framework – a silver bullet, or something useful for target practice?
Considerations for the development of Planning Emergency Levels of Service (PELOS) frameworks.
Short-Term Eruption Forecasting for Crisis Decision-Support in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand
This study presents a new forecasting model for the Auckland Volcanic Field, and tests it on hypothetical eruption scenarios.
Law & Disasters – An Auckland Volcanic Field Case Study
Are we prepared for disasters? Instead of treating disasters as individual hazards, should we treat them as a pattern of events and legislate accordingly?
Balancing human needs with technology—a design-led approach for exploring an earthquake early warning system in Aotearoa New Zealand
This chapter discusses a design-led approach used to engage with the public to investigate the feasibility of an Earthquake Early Warning system in New Zealand.
How can practitioners support citizen volunteers in disaster risk reduction? Insight from ‘Good and Ready’ in Aotearoa New Zealand
This research examined the outcomes of the Red Cross 'Good and Ready' disaster resilience initiative, and investigated volunteers’ experiences.
Homelessness and COVID-19 in New Zealand: Challenges, emergency responses, and implications for disaster risk reduction
This research analyses homeless people's experiences of the COVID-19 response in New Zealand, and examines policies and actions developed by government agencies and local organisations.