Since the 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes, Akaroa has been hosting the majority of cruise ship arrivals to Canterbury. This amounts to approximately 70-74 days per season, when between 2,000- 4,000 persons come ashore between 9am and 4pm when in port. This increased level of cruise ship arrivals has had significant impacts, both beneficial and detrimental, on Akaroa. Attitudes within the Akaroa community to hosting cruise ship arrivals appear to be divided, and has led to public debate in Akaroa about the issue. In response to this situation, Christchurch and Canterbury Tourism (CCT) commissioned this research project to assess the impact of cruise ship tourism on the Akaroa community.
A pdf transcript of Participant number EG138's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
In the aftermath of the 22 February 2011 earthquake, the Natural Hazards Research Platform (NHRP) initiated a series of Short Term Recovery Projects (STRP) aimed at facilitating and supporting the recovery of Christchurch from the earthquake impacts. This report presents the outcomes of STRP 6: Impacts of Liquefaction on Pipe Networks, which focused on the impacts of liquefaction on the potable water and wastewater systems of Christchurch. The project was a collaborative effort of NHRP researchers with expertise in liquefaction, CCC personnel managing and designing the systems and a geotechnical practitioner with experience/expertise in Christchurch soils and seismic geotechnics.
Slides from the presentation by Professor Simon Kingham (Department of Geography) on "The Impact of Exposure to the Earthquake on Geographical Variations in Non-Emergency Stress Related Health".
A pdf transcript of Andrew Oxenburgh's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 26 March 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 3 October 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 2 July 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 18 March 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 25 February 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 March 2011 entitled, "Day 8, 6pm - inside the Christchurch cordon".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 7 March 2011 entitled, "Day 14 - in the red zone".
A news item titled, "Cool Store Relocation Causes Controversy", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Thursday, 13 October 2011.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 January 2012 entitled, "Bucky Birthday".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 3 January 2012 entitled, "Routine Rambling".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 25 May 2011 entitled, "Airport Alterations".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 April 2011 entitled, "Day 50 - Scarcity of Sleep".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 June 2011 entitled, "Strolling on Saturday".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 22 July 2011 entitled, "Fear and Frustration".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 12 March 2014 entitled, "Love on Liverpool".
We assess how last the earthquake has affected three major arts festivals and Christchurch's historic Repertory Theatre, and the part the arts have to play in helping the city to get back on its feet.
The 2010 and 2011 earthquakes have had a devastating impact on the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The level of destruction has been especially evident in the central business district where it has been estimated over 1000 buildings have already been or will eventually require demolition. Although, contrary to expectations, most of the fatalities were in relatively modern buildings, the Victorian and Edwardian era building stock was especially hard hit in terms of property damage. Unfortunately this era and style of building were also the focus of the most successful inner city revitalisation projects to date. A major research project is now underway examining the impact on the earthquakes on one of these revitalisation areas. The first step is to examine the international literature on similar inner city revitalisation or gentrification areas and in particular the characteristics of owners and occupiers attracted to this type of environment. This is the focus of this paper.
The earthquakes that struck Ōtautahi/Christchurch began September 2010 and continued throughout2012 with the worse shock being February 22, 2011. The extended ‘seismic event’ radically altered thegeophysical and socio-cultural environments of the city. This working paper presents a broad array of datadescribing the impacts of the disaster on Māori. These data frame the results of small email surveyconducted 18 months after the most destructive February 22, 2011. This survey followed two projectsinvestigating the resilience of Māori to the disaster (Lambert & Mark-Shadbolt, 2011; Lambert & Mark-Shadbolt, 2012; Lambert, Mark-Shadbolt, Ataria, & Black, 2012). Results show that while the termresilience has become common to the point of cliché, the Māori experience thus far is best described asendurance.
A presentation by Heidi Su, Kit Hoeben, and Helen Lunt from the Diabetes Centre, titled, "Impact of the Christchurch Earthquakes on Type 1 Diabetes".
Between September 2010 and February 2012 (a period of 18 months) the Canterbury region of New Zealand has experienced over 10,000 earthquakes (Nicholls, 2012). This report is the first in a series that will describe the impact of the Canterbury earthquake on businesses. This initial report gives a high level overview of the earthquake events and the impacts on the Canterbury economy and businesses. This report is intended to provide background and context for more in-depth analyses to come in future reports.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 30 September 2013 entitled, "Scape 'n' Streets".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 March 2011 entitled, "Two minute silence - inside the Christchurch cordon".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 24 September 2010 entitled, "Earthquake Update 24/9".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 1 August 2012 entitled, "Blush Babe".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 November 2012 entitled, "Back at Bailies".