By Alicia Cui, CRISiSLab Head of Engagement and Marketing and Resilience Challenge Urban Theme Networking Lead You may have attended one of our CRISiSLab webinars or heard about one of…
Understanding flood protection stopbanks across New Zealand 20/04/2018 By Kaley Crawford-Flett Stopbanks (levees) protect many New Zealand towns and cities from floodwater damage. At the moment, stopbanks are managed based…
Operationalising resilience: A heuristic framework for analysis 20/11/2018 ByProfessor Iain White, Professor Bruce Glavovic, Dr Judy Lawrence and Dr Gail Adams-Hutcheson The question of how to build the resilience of…
Infrastructure Component Fragility and Vulnerability for Tsunami Wave Impacts and Currents I was raised on the North Shore of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Civil and…
The Wellington Lifelines Regional Resilience Project 26/09/2018 By Nicky Smith How can co-ordinated infrastructure planning and investment improve the resilience of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, to earthquake events? To…
Integrated decision making in transportation resilience and asset management I was born in the city of Viña del Mar, which is located across the Pacific Ocean in Chile. I grew…
Managed retreat; unpacking the ‘black box’ By Emma Ryan Low-lying coastal communities around New Zealand will need to start embracing managed retreat as climate change and sea-level rise continue to…
Future resilience planners and decision-makers will need complete confidence in the reliability of the multi-hazard modelling we are developing if they ar
A ground-breaking report focused on reducing natural hazard and climate change risk under the Resource Management Act has been awarded the New Zealand Planning Institute’s John Mawson Award of Merit…
The role of Buddhist pagodas in Auckland’s natural disaster preparedness, response and recovery 20/07/2018 By Chanrith Ngin and Jesse Hession Grayman Around eight percent of Auckland’s population doesn’t speak English.…
The Volcanoes programme is creating reliable forecasts of the hazards and impacts of volcanic activity in Aotearoa New Zealand. This new capability must be effectively integrated into existing emergency management institutions and infrastructure to build
Q. Tēnā koe Jan. First of all, congratulations on your recent promotion to Professor! Tēnā koe. Thank you. To be honest it still feels quite surreal! I think it is…
15 August 2018 Māori oral histories reveal previously undocumented insights into the devastating tsunami on the Chatham Islands, 150 years after the event. On August 15th, 1868 the Chatham…
