About thegroup
ҕl New Zealand is located on the Pacific ‘rim of fire,’ and has one of the most physically dynamic landscapes and environments in the world. Floods, droughts, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and tsunamis threaten a rapidly-growing, high-income economy, driving collaboration between policy, practice research, and local communities, and increasing demand for disaster risk reduction.
The Disaster Risk and Resilience (DRR) Group, based out of the ҕl, is at the forefront of disaster resilience research and implementation both in ҕl New Zealand, and internationally. The group brings together a cluster of researchers across an array of disciplines, united by a passion for hazards and innovative research.
ճcalls for a broader, more people-centred, preventative approach to disaster risk reduction, in which communities, government and private sectors, civil society organisations, academia, and research institutions work together to build resilience and develop collaborative disaster risk reduction practices. To address this, the cluster also hosts a professional Master of Disaster Risk and Resilience.
The DRR Group plays a leading role in a number of interdisciplinary projects and resilience initiatives. Current and completed research undertaken by members of the Group includes projects and programmes funded by theprogramme (including the Rural, Multi-hazards Risk Management and Resilience in Practice programmes), the, and the
Current topics include
- Disaster risk governance and disaster management decision-making and governance
- The coproduction of disaster resilience
- Development of new and novel multi-hazard impact assessment approaches
- The interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaborative development and implementation of earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood and coastal erosion disaster impact scenarios
- Collaborative development and implementation of regional science/practice/policy disaster risk management platforms
- Innovative resilience decision-making
- Drivers of rural resilience
- Pre-event adaptation for disaster impact reduction
- Managed retreat from high-risk areas
