SCIRT Training Centre Value

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A report which details the financial and societal value that the SCIRT Training Centre created.

Extract from Morrison Low's Report from the Independent Review of SCIRT's …

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

Summary of an independent review of the TOC process.

Email: Update from OVTRK after your participation in our Forum on 10 March…

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

A pdf copy of an email sent to the participants in a One Voice Te Reo Kotahi forum held on 10 March 2014. OVTRK report that the email was sent to Arihia Bennett, the Chief Executive Officer of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel, Waimakariri Mayor David Ayers, Selwyn District Councillor Malcolm Lyall, and Dame Margaret Bazley, Chair of Environment Canterbury.

Indigenous Peoples and urban disaster: Māori responses to the 2010-12 Chri…

Research Papers, Lincoln University

Indigenous Peoples retain traditional coping strategies for disasters despite the marginalisation of many Indigenous communities. This article describes the response of Māori to the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2012 through analyses of available statistical data and reports, and interviews done three months and one year after the most damaging event. A significant difference between Māori and ‘mainstream’ New Zealand was the greater mobility enacted by Māori throughout this period, with organisations having roles beyond their traditional catchments throughout the disaster, including important support for non-Māori. Informed engagement with Indigenous communities, acknowledging their internal diversity and culturally nuanced support networks, would enable more efficient disaster responses in many countries.