New Zealand

This paper analyses what different urban actors (citizens; politicians; urban planners and designers; and urban climate experts) who shape the urban environment and thus its climate, know about urban climate adaptation measures. Thereby, this study is

This guidebook is a planning tool to design, manage and assess recovery following a disaster. It describes institutional options, successful characteristics and management lessons based on real-world experience with disaster recovery operations.

This paper reports on the round tables held in the UK, the USA and New Zealand discussing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems. The paper strives to advance the application of resilience thinking in engineering practice. It explores how

Currently Aotearoa, New Zealand, does not have a nationwide EEW system, so a survey of the public was undertaken in this paper to understand whether EEW was considered useful and acceptable by the public, as well as perceptions of how and when such

The aim of this paper is to identify factors associated with face masking in New Zealand during COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown to inform strategies to socialise and support mass masking.

Mass masking is emerging as a key non-pharmaceutical intervention

This paper uses riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. Climate change indeed challenges how policy agents imagine and seek to govern risks in space and time. The authors

In this study, the authors explore the potentials and shortcomings of national laws in managing flood risk and increasing flood resilience in the context of climate change. They analyze 139 laws from 33 countries collected from the Climate Change Laws of

This paper argues that there is a need for a new policy framing that Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) investment is imperative that will generate dividends for governments and society at large. Under the auspice of the Sendai Framework for disaster risk