How is research improving the resilience of our buildings and infrastructure networks to natural hazards? Our built environment, including buildings and infrastructure networks, plays a significant role in our resilience…
Christine Kenney (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāi Tahu) has been part of the Resilience Challenge since Phase 1 and was recently appointed as co-leader of our Rural Communities research…
Enhancing local climate risk assessments Kia ora! Hailing from Dunedin I spent years watching the St Clair – St Kilda coastline retreat, causing sink holes to appear along the Esplanade…
Port Hills Fire experiences might help answer some burning questions 20/03/2018 By Lisa Langer We live in a risky environment. New Zealand experiences wildfires, floods, landslides and earthquakes far too…
Modelling Local Site Effects in Physics-Based Earthquake Ground-Motion Simulations I was born in Valdivia (Chile) – the city that gives its name to the most powerful earthquake ever recorded (a…
Re-imagining Rural Resilience 29/03/2018 By Nick Cradock-Henry Rural regions throughout New Zealand face multiple social, environmental and economic challenges. One of these challenges is the range of natural hazards that…
The National Science Challenges end on 30 June 2024. What is happening with our research and researchers? What about our website? What next for collaborative natural hazards resilience research? This…
Fault Interactions in Central New Zealand Kia ora! I grew up in a small town called Wainuiomata, which is just outside of Wellington. Surrounded by hills coated in native lowland…
Student profile: Safa Al-sachit 20/03/2019 West Coast Resilience Project A bit about me I was born and raised in Iraq with three other siblings. My father is an electrical engineer…
Researchers from the University of Canterbury and the University of Auckland, within our Built Environments team, have provided underpinning science to the New Zealand Seismic Risk Working Group, as it…
