Mike Ardagh is a specialist emergency physician at Christchurch Hospital, who is chairing a research group which is looking into the health implications of the earthquakes. His work in improving the efficiency and performance of emergency departments was recognised in the New Year's Honours.
New assessment guidelines are reclassifying houses which were previously written off as being repairable, leaving owners up to $180,000 worse off. Kathryn talks to Leanne Curtis, spokesperson for the Canterbury Community Earthquake Recovery Network, and Renee Walker, spokesperson for IAG New Zealand.
An entry from Jennifer Middendorf's blog for 22 February 2012 entitled, "12:51".
The University of Canterbury's E-Learning team's temporary office in the James Hight building. The photographer comments, "Yet another change of workplace for our E-Learning group, as the University juggles people and buildings to carry out earthquake repairs. My desk".
A building on Victoria Street, housing the Chinwag Eathai restaurant, that has been give a yellow placard. This was a building assessment system used following the February earthquake indicating that there should be limited access and that the building needs further evaluation.
A photograph captioned, "So it's been an eventful couple of years. I think the first earthquake, it was just so totally unexpected. You went to bed one night and when you woke up - in just a few seconds- everything was different than it had been before".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Two tourists studying a map in the Botanic Gardens. Tourists are seen again in reasonable numbers in Christchurch. Some of the maps are not updated to reflect the changes since the earthquake".
An entry from Deb Robertson's blog for 20 September 2012 entitled, "A few snapshots of the residential red-zone....".
Two pink and two purple artificial fabric roses with plastic stems and fabric leaves tied together with a red fabric heart on a wooden stick using purple metallic string. The pink flower has additional plastic leaves with white bead like additions.
Two pink and two purple artificial fabric roses with plastic stems and fabric leaves tied together with a red fabric heart on a wooden stick using pink metallic string. The flowers have additional plastic leaves with white bead like additions.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 8 February 2012.
Page 1 of Section A of the South Island edition of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 27 June 2012.
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 28 June 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 29 June 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Saturday 18 August 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 19 January 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 18 January 2012.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 8 August 2012.
Page 5 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 31 July 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 16 August 2012.
Page 4 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 17 August 2012.
Page 6 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Tuesday 14 August 2012.
Page 3 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Thursday 2 August 2012.
At least five companies are busy working in and around Christchurch blasting rock on unstable slopes in the hope of reducing danger since the earthquakes. Spectrum's Deborah Nation joins backcountry construction company Solutions 2 Access, as the team blasts rock on the Port Hills above Lyttelton.
A PDF copy of The Star newspaper, published on Wednesday 7 March 2012.
Page 9 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 22 February 2012.
Page 4 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 18 July 2012.
Page 2 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Friday 3 August 2012.
Page 7 of Section A of the Christchurch Press, published on Wednesday 8 August 2012.
In 2010 and 2011, Aotearoa New Zealand was hit by a number of major disasters involving loss of human life and severe disruption to social, ecological and economic wellbeing. The Pike River mine explosions were closely followed by a sequence of major earthquakes in Christchurch, seismic events that have permanently altered the lives of thousands of people in our third largest city, the closure of the central business district and the effective abandonment of whole residential areas. In early October 2011, the ship, Rena, grounded on a reef off the port of Tauranga and threatened a major oil spill throughout the Bay of Plenty, where local communities with spiritual and cultural connections to the land depend on sea food as well as thrive on tourism. The Council for Social Work Education Aotearoa New Zealand (CSWEANZ), representing all the Schools of Social Work in New Zealand, held a ‘Disaster Curriculum’ day in November 2011, at which social workers and Civil Defence leaders involved in the Christchurch earthquakes, the Rena Disaster, Fiji floods and the Boxing Day tsunami presented their narrative experience of disaster response and recovery. Workshops discussed and identified core elements that participants considered vital to a social work curriculum that would enable social work graduates in a range of community and cultural settings to respond in safe, creative and informed ways. We present our core ideas for a social work disaster curriculum and consider a wide range of educational content based on existing knowledge bases and new content within a disaster framework. http://www.swsd-stockholm-2012.org/