An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 20 July 2012 entitled, "Monopoly on Manchester".
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 19 March 2014 entitled, "Prominence for Pioneers".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 08 November 2013 entitled, "Music in the Mall".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 21 December 2013 entitled, "Bold and Beguiling".
A photograph of workers from HireQuip loading a trailer with items from people's homes during the Residential Access Project. The project gave residents temporary access within the red-zone cordon in order to retrieve items from their homes.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 29 November 2013 entitled, "Roller Restart".
A news item titled, "Know Your Land Rights - Retaining Walls", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Friday, 15 July 2011.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 08 March 2014 entitled, "Low-key Liberation".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 24 February 2012 entitled, "My Street A year On".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 18 November 2011 entitled, "Christchurch Container Mall".
A map of the coastlines changes around Christchurch 6900 BC till present.
A map of the Christchurch landscape.
A map of the tectonic plate boundary of the alpine fault in New Zealand.
A flow chart depicting potential hazards earthquakes pose to coastal geography.
A map of Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority residential zones in Christchurch.
Livelihood holds the key to a rapid recovery following a large-scale devastating disaster, building its resilience is of paramount importance. While much attention has been given to how to help people who are displaced from their jobs to regain employment, little research on livelihood resilience has been undertaken for those relocated communities following a disaster event. By studying five re-located villages post-2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar, Indonesia, this research has identified the indicators of livelihood resilience and the critical factors driving it for post-disaster relocated communities. A mixed approach, combining questionnaire surveys, semistructured interviews, and field observations, was used for the collection of data. Housing entitlement, the physical and mental health of residents, access to external livelihood support and the provision of infrastructure and basic services were identified as amongst the most critical indicators that represent the level of livelihood resilience. Early recovery income support, physical and mental health, availability and timeliness of livelihood support, together with cultural sensitivity and governance structure, are amongst the most important factors. Given the nature of resettlement, access to infrastructure, location of relocated sites, the safety of the neighbourhood and the ability to transfer to other jobs/skills also play an important role in establishing sustained employment for relocated communities in Indonesia. Those indicators and factors were synthesised into a framework which was further tested in the recovery of Christchurch, and Kaikoura, New Zealand during their recovery from devastating earthquakes. It is suggested that the framework can be used by government agencies and aid organisations to assess the livelihood resilience of post-disaster relocated communities. This will help better them plan support policies and/or prioritise resilience investment strategies to ensure that the recovery needs of those relocated are best met.
Earthquake events can be sudden, stressful, unpredictable, and uncontrollable events in which an individual’s internal and external assumptions of their environment may be disrupted. A number of studies have found depression, and other psychological symptoms may be common after natural disasters. They have also found an association between depression, losses and disruptions for survivors. The present study compared depression symptoms in two demographically matched communities differentially affected by the Canterbury (New Zealand) earthquakes. Hypotheses were informed by the theory of learned helplessness (Abramson, Seligman & Teasdale, 1978). A door-to-door survey was conducted in a more physically affected community sample (N=67) and a relatively unaffected community sample (N=67), 4 months after the February 2011 earthquake. Participants were again assessed approximately 10 months after the quake. Measures of depression, acute stress, anxiety, aftershock anxiety, losses, physical disruptions and psychological disruptions were taken. In addition, prior psychological symptoms, medication, alcohol and cigarette use were assessed. Participants in the more affected community reported higher depression scores than the less affected community. Overall, elevated depressive score at time 2 were predicted by depression at time 1, acute stress and anxiety symptoms at time 2, physical disruptions following the quake and psychosocial functioning disruptions at time 2. These results suggest the influence of acute stress, anxiety and disruptions in predicting depression sometime after an earthquake. Supportive interventions directed towards depression, and other psychological symptoms, may prove helpful in psychological adjustment following ongoing disruptive stressors and uncontrollable seismic activity.
An earthquake memories story from Debbie Smith, Health Protection Officer, Community and Public Health, titled, "Long road to recovery".
An earthquake memories story from Malcolm Walker, Health Protection Officer, Community and Public Health, titled, "Suddenly the screaming started".
An earthquake memories story from Judy Williamson, Health Protection Officer, Community and Public Health, titled, "Not just another one".
An earthquake memories story from Alistair Humphrey, Medical Officer of Health, Community and Public Health, titled, "Health through humour".
Earthquake Recovery Minister Jerry Brownlee, Prime Minister John Key, and Vice-Chancellor Rod Carr at the Community Engagement Awards 2011.
Tourism, native planting, and bee keeping are all possibilities a community lead working group is waiting on government funding to explore.
A photograph of the house at 56 Bangor Street.
A photograph of the house at 450 Oxford Terrace.
A photograph of the house at 456 Oxford Terrace.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 05 February 2014 entitled, "Monumento Mori?".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 01 February 2014 entitled, "Rapid Recovery".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 5 September 2010 entitled, "Aftershocks".