Transcript of Henare's earthquake story
Articles, UC QuakeStudies
Transcript of Henare's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
Transcript of Henare's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
A pdf transcript of Vic Bartley's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope. Transcriber: Sarah Woodfield.
A pdf transcript of Ann's second earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox Take 2 project. Interviewer: Samuel Hope. Transcriber: Josie Hepburn.
A story submitted by Mike Williams to the QuakeStories website.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 17 February 2012 entitled, "Approaching Anniversary".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 March 2011 entitled, "Day 32, 6pm - in the red zone".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 February 2016 entitled, "Five Years".The entry was downloaded on 2 November 2016.
Transcript of Jan Dobson's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 31 December 2011 entitled, "2011 in review".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 8 April 2011 entitled, "Day 46 - Clearing Kilmore".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 August 2011 entitled, "Setting the Scene for Scape".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 8 May 2013 entitled, "If our cottage is demolished ".
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 7 December 2013 entitled, "Moving, baking, and other chaos".
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 18 December 2010 entitled, "I think it's summer".
A story submitted by Stephen Mateer to the QuakeStories website.
A copy of the CanCERN online newsletter published on 20 September 2013
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 19 October 2011 entitled, "One more quilt to show...".
Summary of oral history interview with Leanne Curtis about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 16 March 2011 entitled, "Hotdesking".
The Canterbury region of New Zealand experienced four earthquakes greater than MW 6.0 between September 2010 and December 2011. This study employs system dynamics as well as hazard, recovery and organisational literature and brings together data collected via surveys, case studies and interviews with organisations affected by the earthquakes. This is to show how systemic interactions and interdependencies within and between industry and geographic sectors affect their recovery post-disaster. The industry sectors in the study are: construction for its role in the rebuild, information and communication technology which is a regional high-growth industry, trucking for logistics, critical infrastructure, fast moving consumer goods (e.g. supermarkets) and hospitality to track recovery through non-discretionary and discretionary spend respectively. Also in the study are three urban centres including the region’s largest Central Business District, which has been inaccessible since the earthquake of 22 February 2011 to the time of writing in February 2013. This work also highlights how earthquake effects propagated between sectors and how sectors collaborated to mitigate difficulties such as product demand instability. Other interacting factors are identified that influence the recovery trajectories of the different industry sectors. These are resource availability, insurance payments, aid from central government, and timely and quality recovery information. This work demonstrates that in recovering from disaster it is crucial for organisations to identify what interacting factors could affect their operations. Also of importance are efforts to reduce the organisation’s vulnerability and increase their resilience to future crises and in day-to-day operations. Lastly, the multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the recovery and resilience of organisations and industry sectors after disaster, leads to a better understanding of effects as well as more effective recovery policy.
The recent Christchurch earthquakes provide a unique opportunity to better understand the relationship between pre-disaster social fault-lines and post-disaster community fracture. As a resident of Christchurch, this paper presents some of my reflections on the social structures and systems, activities, attitudes and decisions that have helped different Canterbury ‘communities’ along their road to recovery, and highlights some issues that have, unfortunately, held us back. These reflections help answer the most crucial question asked of disaster scholarship: what can recovery agencies (including local authorities) do - both before and after disaster - to promote resilience and facilitate recovery. This paper – based on three different definitions of resilience - presents a thematic account of the social recovery landscape. I argue that ‘coping’ might best be associated with adaptive capacity, however ‘thriving’ or ‘bounce forward’ versions of resilience are a function of a community’s participative capacity.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 22 March 2012 entitled, "Lamenting the Loss".
Summary of oral history interview with Teruyo about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Summary of oral history interview with Genevieve Togiaso about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Based on a qualitative study of four organisations involving 47 respondents following the extensive 2010 – 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, this paper presents some guidance for human resource practitioners dealing with post-disaster recovery. A key issue is the need for the human resource function to reframe its practices in a post-disaster context, developing a specific focus on understanding and addressing changing employee needs, and monitoring the leadership behaviour of supervisors. This article highlights the importance of flexible organisational responses based around a set of key principles concerning communication and employee perceptions of company support.
A story submitted by Peter Seager to the QuakeStories website.
Summary of oral history interview with Phillippa Jacobs about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.
Oral history interview with Rosie Laing about her experiences of the Canterbury earthquakes.