By Aviva Cui How effective is current natural hazard communication? Do tourists understand it and are they prepared for natural hazards before travelling to a destination? The answer is complicated…
Resilience of Water Sensitive Design Assets in Urban Environments Against Urban Flooding and Climate Change Kia Ora! I am a 3rd year PhD student at the University of Auckland with…
We rely on collaborations with our partners and stakeholders in order to achieve our mission, including Challenge parties, other NSCs and aligned research organisations, iwi and hapū, government agencies, and…
Student Profile: Ashton Eaves 25/05/2018 Building resilience to climate change through modelling managed retreat in a coastal setting About Ashton Originally a Cantabrian, Ashton is now living on the West…
Māori communities are considered some of the most vulnerable to high impact weather events and the onset of climate change.
We aim to understand the impact of high impact weather on Māori communities and their current levels of preparedness and mit
Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledges) of natural hazards are woven into and are an integral part of Māori accounts of creation of our landscape. These knowledges have the power to transform our understanding of natural hazard risk and resilience.
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Fostering children’s participation in DRR with Minecraft and LEGO 19/06/2018 ByLoïc Le Dé Children and disasters Children pose an interesting challenge when it comes to Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). They…
Institutional structures, social capital & community resilience: can legislative & governance arrangements facilitate community influence on recovery decision making? I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. Aotearoa New Zealand has been…
Interdisciplinary science is an approach well suited to natural hazards research. It is almost never the case that an exclusively engineering, social, or geological research output is the solution to…
Testing and Evaluation of Simulated Earthquake Rupture Catalogue for New Zealand I was born and raised in Triveni, a village in the southern part of Nepal. I have a Bachelor’s…