Video of Rosie Belton's earthquake story

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Video of Rosie Belton's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (5)

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The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (7)

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A sign on a lamppost in Brooklands, reading, "The government is stealing our land".

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (6)

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The winners parade at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (11)

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Liz Kivi standing outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.

Video of Maryrose Ansell's earthquake story

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Video of Maryrose Ansell's earthquake story, captured by the UC QuakeBox project.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (7)

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Anne Williams and Sally Roome standing outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (17)

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Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (1)

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The UC QuakeBox container next to the New Brighton Library.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (13)

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Geoff Clements and Sally Roome outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (6)

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Liv Kivi recording a story inside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (4)

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The Brooklands Community Hall with the UC QuakeBox parked in the car park. A sign with the opening time has been placed on the other side of the road.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (5)

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Liz Kivi stting beside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (3)

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Derek Bent and Geoff Clements standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (9)

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Liz Kivi, Geoff Clements and Derek Bent setting up the television outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show. The television played videos of previous stories recorded in the UC QuakeBox.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (10)

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Liv Kivi sitting outside the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (12)

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Liv Kivi and Geoff Clements in the UC QuakeBox container at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (1)

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Liv Kivi sitting outside the UC QuakeBox container in New Brighton. The container was parked south of the New Brighton Library.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (8)

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A sign in a shop on the corner of Anfield Street and Lower Styx Road in Brooklands. The sign reads, "Save Brooklands. We want to stay!".

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (2)

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Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (8)

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Sally Roome and Troy Gillan at the UC QuakeBox in the carpark of Westfield Riccarton.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (4)

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Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean. To the left, shipping containers line the street. One has been placed on the footpath next to where the UC QuakeBox is sitting and covered with a patchwork quilt.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (2)

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Derek Bent and Geoff Clements standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in Brooklands. The container was parked in the car park of the Brooklands Community Centre on Anfield Street.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (15)

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Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (14)

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Derek Bent, Troy Gillan and Lucy-Jane Walsh outside the UC QuakeBox at the Canterbury A&P Show.

UC QuakeBox photograph by Sally Roome (16)

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Chelsea Smith standing outside the UC QuakeBox container in the car park of Westfield Riccarton.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (3)

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Sally Roome talking to members of the Sumner community outside the UC QuakeBox container in Sumner. Above, the damaged cliffs can be seen with a house at the edge on a lean.

UC QuakeBox photograph taken by Waynne Williams Port Hills Productions (9)

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Sally Roome and Troy Gillan at the UC QuakeBox in the carpark of Westfield Riccarton.

The limits of resilience: A discussion of resilience from the perspectives…

Research papers, The University of Auckland Library

Mechanistic and scientific approaches to resilience assume that there is a “tipping point” at which a system can no longer absorb adversity; after this point, it is liable to collapse. Some of these perspectives, particularly those stemming from ecology and psychology, recognise that individuals and communities cannot be perpetually resilient without limits. While the resilience paradigm has been imported into the social sciences, the limits to resilience have often been disregarded. This leads to an overestimation of “human resourcefulness” within the resilience paradigm. In policy discourse, practice, and research, resilience seems to be treated as a “limitless” and human quality in which individuals and communities can effectively cope with any hazard at any time, for as long as they want and with any people. We critique these assumptions with reference to the recovery case in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand following the 2010-11 Canterbury earthquake sequence. We discuss the limits to resilience and reconceptualise resilience thinking for disaster risk reduction and sustainable recovery and development.

Greening the rubble in Christchurch: Civic ecological reclamation efforts …

Research Papers, Lincoln University

Within four weeks of the September 4 2010 Canterbury Earthquake a new, loosely-knit community group appeared in Christchurch under the banner of “Greening the Rubble.” The general aim of those who attended the first few meetings was to do something to help plug the holes that had already appeared or were likely to appear over the coming weeks in the city fabric with some temporary landscaping and planting projects. This article charts the first eighteen months of Greening the Rubble and places the initiative in a broader context to argue that although seismic events in Christchurch acted as a “call to palms,” so to speak, the city was already in need of some remedial greening. It concludes with a reflection on lessons learned to date by GTR and commentary on the likely issues ahead for this new mini-social-environmental movement in the context of a quake-affected and still quake-prone major New Zealand city. One of the key lessons for GTR and all of those involved in Christchurch recovery activities to date is that the city is still very much in the middle of the event and is to some extent a laboratory for seismic and agency management studies alike.