An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 13 May 2013 entitled, "Restored Roadsigns".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 19 April 2013 entitled, "Reading Room".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 10 March 2013 entitled, "Flattened Flats".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 12 April 2011 entitled, "Day 50 - Free at last!".
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 28 November 2011 entitled, "Shunned streets".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 11 June 2011 entitled, "Strolling on Saturday".
An entry from Ruth Gardner's blog for 16 March 2011 entitled, "Day 23 Freedom may be possible!".
A news item titled, "2 Billion Infrasture Deal Cleared", published on the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's website on Friday, 23 September 2011.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 7 May 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 7 November 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
An entry from Ruth Gardner's Blog for 24 March 2014 entitled, "Kia Kaha Ti Kouka!".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 23 February 2012 entitled, "Helping Hands".
An entry from Roz Johnson's blog for 21 July 2012 entitled, "Of Patience and Patients".
Organisations play a vital role in assisting communities to recover from disasters. They are the key providers of goods and services needed in both response and recovery efforts. They provide the employment which both anchors people to place and supports the taxation base to allow for necessary recovery spending. Finally, organisations are an integral part of much day to day functioning contributing immensely to people’s sense of ‘normality’ and psychological wellbeing. Yet, despite their overall importance in the recovery process, there are significant gaps in our existing knowledge with regard to how organisations respond and recover following disaster. This research fills one part of this gap by examining collaboration as an adaptive strategy enacted by organisations in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, which was heavily impacted by a series of major earthquakes, occurring in 2010 and 2011. Collaboration has been extensively investigated in a variety of settings and from numerous disciplinary perspectives. However, there are few studies that investigate the role of collaborative approaches to support post-disaster business recovery. This study investigates the type of collaborations that have occurred and how they evolved as organisations reacted to the resource and environmental change caused by the disaster. Using data collected through semi-structured interviews, survey and document analysis, a rich and detailed picture of the recovery journey is created for 26 Canterbury organisations including 14 collaborators, six non-traders, five continued traders and one new business. Collaborations included two or more individual businesses collaborating along with two multi-party, place based projects. Comparative analysis of the organisations’ experiences enabled the assessment of decisions, processes and outcomes of collaboration, as well as insight into the overall process of business recovery. This research adopted a primarily inductive, qualitative approach, drawing from both grounded theory and case study methodologies in order to generate theory from this rich and contextually situated data. Important findings include the importance of creating an enabling context which allows organisations to lead their own recovery, the creation of a framework for effective post-disaster collaboration and the importance of considering both economic and other outcomes. Collaboration is found to be an effective strategy enabling resumption of trade at a time when there seemed few other options available. While solving this need, many collaborators have discovered significant and unexpected benefits not just in terms of long term strategy but also with regard to wellbeing. Economic outcomes were less clear-cut. However, with approximately 70% of the Central Business District demolished and rebuilding only gaining momentum in late 2014, many organisations are still in a transition stage moving towards a new ‘normal’.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 14 November 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 12 December 2011, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre's "Community Earthquake Update" bulletin, published on Friday 12 August 2011.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 15 July 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 22 April 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 27 May 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 17 June 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 20 May 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 20 February 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 30 July 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 6 August 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Review" newsletter for 13 August 2012, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
The "Lyttelton Harbour Review" newsletter for 14 January 2013, produced by the Lyttelton Harbour Information Centre.
We're joined by the Christchurch earthquake recovery authority head Roger Sutton.