An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 29 December 2011 entitled, "Littered Library".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 January 2013 entitled, "Workers' Warrens".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 March 2013 entitled, "Tied Table".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 18 March 2011 entitled, "Day 25, 3pm - inside the red zone".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 6 January 2012 entitled, "Resilience".
This article reports on a study of community attitudes to cruise tourism in Akaroa, New Zealand. An important dimension of this study is the significant rate of growth in cruise arrivals over a short period of time as the result of the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes. Data were collected via a postal survey of the Akaroa community, and yielded a response rate of 56.6% (n = 316). The results indicate that despite the recent growth in arrivals, the Akaroa community holds a largely favorable opinion of cruise tourism. Importantly, the impacts identified by respondents were more closely aligned to threats to their identity as a destination, rather than problems with tourism, per se.
Tsunami have the potential to cause significant disruptions to society, including damage to infrastructure, critical to the every-day operation of society. Effective risk management is required to reduce the potential tsunami impacts to them. Christchurch city, situated on the eastern coast of New Zealand’s South Island, is exposed to a number of far-field tsunami hazards. Although the tsunami hazard has been well identified for Christchurch city infrastructure, the likely impacts have not been well constrained. To support effective risk management a credible and realistic infrastructure impact model is required to inform risk management planning. The objectives of this thesis are to assess the impacts on Christchurch city infrastructure from a credible, hypothetical far-field tsunami scenario. To achieve this an impact assessment process is adopted, using tsunami hazard and exposure measures to determine asset vulnerability and subsequent impacts. However, the thesis identified a number of knowledge gaps in infrastructure vulnerability to tsunami. The thesis addresses this by using two approaches: a tsunami damage matrix; and the development of tsunami fragility functions. The tsunami damage matrix pools together tsunami impacts on infrastructure literature, and post-event field observations. It represents the most comprehensive ‘look-up’ resource for tsunami impacts to infrastructure to date. This damage matrix can inform the assessment of tsunami impacts on Christchurch city infrastructure by providing a measure of damage likelihood at various hazard intensities. A more robust approach to tsunami vulnerability of infrastructure are fragility functions, which are also developed in this thesis. These were based on post-event tsunami surveys of the 2011 ‘Tohoku’ earthquake tsunami in Japan. The fragility functions are limited to road and bridge infrastructure, but represent the highest resolution measure of vulnerability for the given assets. As well as providing a measure of damage likelihood for a given tsunami hazard intensity, these also indicate a level of asset damage. The impact assessment process, and synthesized vulnerability measures, are used to run tsunami impact models for Christchurch infrastructure to determine the probability of asset damage occurring and to determine if impact will reach or exceed a given damage state. The models suggest that infrastructure damage is likely to occur in areas exposed to tsunami inundation in this scenario, with significant damage identified for low elevation roads and bridges. The results are presented and discussed in the context of the risk management framework, with emphasis on using risk assessment to inform risk treatment, monitoring and review. In summary, this thesis A) advances tsunami vulnerability and impact assessment methodologies for infrastructure and B) provides a tsunami impact assessment framework for Christchurch city infrastructure which will inform infrastructure tsunami risk management for planners, emergency managers and lifelines groups.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 September 2010 entitled, "Sleepless in Seismicland".
Overview of the Presentation Jarg: • The seismic context & liquefaction Tom: • Potable Water Supply • Waste Water Network
A presentation by Dr Matthew Hughes (Department of Civil and Natural Resource Engineering) on "Liquefaction Impacts on Christchurch's Water and Wastewater Networks".
A letter written by Roz Johnson to family members overseas.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 23 December 2011 entitled, "Afternoon Aftershocks".
A presentation by Dr Veronica O'Toole at UC CEISMIC's contestable fund mini-conference. The presentation was titled, 'Emotional impact of the Earthquakes of Teachers "Unsung Heroes"'.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 18 November 2013 entitled, "Song Song".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 July 2013 entitled, "Michael's Mother, Mary".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 22 February 2014 entitled, "Sacred Space".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 March 2011 entitled, "Solidarity with Christchurch".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 3 June 2012 entitled, "Reduced Resilience".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 November 2012 entitled, "Forlorn Farmers".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 August 2012 entitled, "Good Graffiti".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 8 March 2012 entitled, "Wet Weather Woes".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 April 2013 entitled, "April Ecclesiastical Update".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 17 November 2011 entitled, "'Christchurch Dreaming' by Mary Hobbs".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 October 2011 entitled, "Absent from the Arts Centre".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 6 April 2011 entitled, "Day 44 - Delayed Dinner".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 October 2011 entitled, "Himalayas".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 2 September 2011 entitled, "Museum Milestone".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 3 September 2011 entitled, "Herb Cafe".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 5 May 2011 entitled, "Administrivia".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 3 July 2011 entitled, "Salisbury Street Scenes".