An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 21 August 2012 entitled, "Who's a hoarder?".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 August 2011 entitled, "Car-free Commuting".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 18 February 2011 entitled, "Shop on Show".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 13 May 2011 entitled, "Crying over Carpet".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 18 May 2011 entitled, "Where have all the fun times gone?".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 30 August 2012 entitled, "A plethora of pleasures".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 March 2013 entitled, "Regular Routines".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 July 2013 entitled, "Empathy over Earthquakes".
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 4 July 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 20 May 2014 entitled, "Facing Failure".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 March 2011 entitled, "Day 33, 7am - in the red zone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 23 February 2014 entitled, "Unwelcome Advertising".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 September 2012 entitled, "Uneven Equinox".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 November 2012 entitled, "Posting Parcels".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 January 2012 entitled, "Brighton Beach".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 27 April 2012 entitled, "Iyengar Imminent".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 April 2011 entitled, "Shaken Samples".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 14 November 2011 entitled, "Disfunctional Directions".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 21 June 2011 entitled, "Longing for the Light".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 June 2011 entitled, "Walking Warily".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 18 June 2011 entitled, "Confidence Cracking".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 02 May 2014 entitled, "Widespread Weariness".
What impact are the earthquakes having on secondary students' education? Lynn Freeman talks to Principal of Avonside Girls High School, Sue Hume, and NZQA Deputy Chief Executive, Bali Haque. We also hear from John Bangma, President of the Canterbury Primary Principals' Association, on how primary students are coping.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 5 September 2010 entitled, "Confined to Cottage".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 10 April 2011 entitled, "Day 48 - Foraging and Fences".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 26 May 2011 entitled, "Christchurch Conversations".
We examine the role of business interruption insurance in business recovery following the Christchurch earthquake in 2011 in the short- and medium-term. In the short-term analysis, we ask whether insurance increases the likelihood of business survival in the aftermath of a disaster. We find only weak evidence that those firms that had incurred damage, but were covered by business interruption insurance, had higher likelihood of survival post-quake compared with those firms that did not have insurance. This absence of evidence may reflect the high degree of uncertainty in the months following the 2011 earthquake and the multiplicity of severe aftershocks. For the medium-term, our results show a more explicit role for insurance in the aftermath of a disaster. Firms with business interruption insurance have a higher probability of increasing productivity and improved performance following a catastrophe. Furthermore, our results show that those organisations that receive prompt and full payments of their claims have a better recovery, in terms of profitability and a subjective ‘”better off” measure’ than those that had protracted or inadequate claim payments (less than 80% of the claim paid within 2.5 years). Interestingly, the latter group does worse than those organisations that had damage but no insurance coverage. This analysis strongly indicates the importance not only of good insurance coverage, but of an insurance system that also delivers prompt claim payments. As a first paper attempting to empirically identify a causal effect of insurance on business recovery, we also emphasize some caveats to our analysis.
A pdf transcript of Rae Willis's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 10 October 2013 entitled, "Very Good Venuti".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 23 December 2013 entitled, "Craving a Cafe".