Slides from a presentation by Dr Bernard Walker at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Building Organisational Resilience: the role of HRM in post-disaster recovery".
A presentation by Dr Bernard Walker and Rosemary Baird at UC CEISMIC's Contestable Fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Building Organisational Resilience: the role of HRM in post-disaster recovery".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 8 February 2013 entitled, "Vote for me!".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 31 May 2013 entitled, "1000 days".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 19 December 2013 entitled, "A couple of delayed entries".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 7 December 2013 entitled, "Moving, baking, and other chaos".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 July 2013 entitled, "Empathy over Earthquakes".
A story submitted by Nicki Reece to the QuakeStories website.
A story submitted by Celina Elliott to the QuakeStories website.
Page 17 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 20 December 2013.
Whole document is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland until Feb. 2014. The increasing scale of losses from earthquake disasters has reinforced the need for property owners to become proactive in seismic risk reduction programs. However, despite advancement in seismic design methods and legislative frameworks, building owners are often reluctant to adopt mitigation measures required to reduce earthquake losses. The magnitude of building collapses from the recent Christchurch earthquakes in New Zealand shows that owners of earthquake prone buildings (EPBs) are not adopting appropriate risk mitigation measures in their buildings. Owners of EPBs are found unwilling or lack motivation to adopt adequate mitigation measures that will reduce their vulnerability to seismic risks. This research investigates how to increase the likelihood of building owners undertaking appropriate mitigation actions that will reduce their vulnerability to earthquake disaster. A sequential two-phase mixed methods approach was adopted for the research investigation. Multiple case studies approach was adopted in the first qualitative phase, followed by the second quantitative research phase that includes the development and testing of a framework. The research findings reveal four categories of critical obstacles to building owners‘ decision to adopt earthquake loss prevention measures. These obstacles include perception, sociological, economic and institutional impediments. Intrinsic and extrinsic interventions are proposed as incentives for overcoming these barriers. The intrinsic motivators include using information communication networks such as mass media, policy entrepreneurs and community engagement in risk mitigation. Extrinsic motivators comprise the use of four groups of incentives namely; financial, regulatory, technological and property market incentives. These intrinsic and extrinsic interventions are essential for enhancing property owners‘ decisions to voluntarily adopt appropriate earthquake mitigation measures. The study concludes by providing specific recommendations that earthquake risk mitigation managers, city councils and stakeholders involved in risk mitigation in New Zealand and other seismic risk vulnerable countries could consider in earthquake risk management. Local authorities could adopt the framework developed in this study to demonstrate a combination of incentives and motivators that yield best-valued outcomes. Consequently, actions can be more specific and outcomes more effective. The implementation of these recommendations could offer greater reasons for the stakeholders and public to invest in building New Zealand‘s built environment resilience to earthquake disasters.
A design guideline which provides guidance to designers on how to carry out a whole of life evaluation of rebuild options.
Slides from a presentation by Dr Deirdre Hart at UC CEISMIC's contestable fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Can Coastal Cities Be More Disaster Resilient?
A public talk by Rob Jamieson, CEO at Orion. This talk, entitled 'Powering up through resilience, safety and teamwork', formed part of the Plenary Four session, ' Laying the foundations'.
A video of a presentation by Michelle Daly of GNS Science on the "Economics of Infrastructure Resilience EoRI project". The presentation was delivered at the learning forum on Interdependencies of Lifeline Systems as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
A video of a presentation by Dr Craig Davis of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on "Learning and planning collaboration on 'Earthquake-Flood Multi-Hazard Impact on Lifelines' and 'Resilience Measures and Strategies'". The presentation was delivered at the Learning from Lifeline Week and Planning Collaborations forum as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
A video of a presentation by Dr Erica Seville of the University of Canterbury's Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering on "Organisational and Economic Resilience". The presentation was delivered at the Learning from Lifeline Week and Planning Collaborations forum as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
A presentation by Dr Deirdre Hart at UC CEISMIC's contestable fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, "Can Coastal Cities Be More Disaster Resilient?
A video of a presentation by Assistant Professor Paolo Franchin of Sapienza University of Rome on "Modelling seismic vulnerability and resilience of interconnected infrastuctural systems". The presentation was delivered at the learning forum on Interdependencies of Lifeline Systems as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
A video of a presentation by Roger Fairclough of the National Infrastructure Unit on "New Zealand resilient infrastructures: interdependency issues when planning for the future". The presentation was delivered at the learning forum on Interdependencies of Lifeline Systems as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
A video of a presentation by Professor Rachel A. Davidson of the University of Delaware on "System Resilience: Probabilistic scenario-based approach for prioritising mitigation-strategies". The presentation was delivered at the Learning from Lifeline Week and Planning Collaborations forum as part of the University of Canterbury's Lifeline Week.
Summary of oral history interview with Kristy Constable-Brown about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Christine about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Violet about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Nellie about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Estelle Laugesen about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Transcript of Blair Anderson's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Jan's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Julie's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Ursula's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.