Research Reports

ISSN 1178-7260 (Print)
ISSN 1178-7279 (Online)

 

Reducing the Impact of Organisational Silos on Resilience.

Tony Fenwick, Erica Seville, David Brunsdon

Resilient Organisations Research Report 2009/01. (PDF, 330kB)

 

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Summary of Learnings from the 4th International i-Rec Conference: Building resilience - achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction.

Dean Myburgh , Erica Seville, Suzanne Wilkinson
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2008/02. (PDF, 300kB)

 

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Post Disaster Reconstruction Research: An Industry Update

Dean Myburgh , Suzanne Wilkinson, Erica Seville
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2008/01. (PDF, 300kB)

 

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Resilience Management: A framework for assessing and improving the resilience of Organisations

Sonia McManus, Erica Seville, David Brunsdon, John Vargo
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2007/01. (PDF, 1MB)

 

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Building Organisational Resilience: A summary of key research findings

Erica Seville, David Brunsdon, Andre Dantas, Jason Le Masurier, Suzanne Wilkinson, John Vargo
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2006/04. (PDF, 168K)

 

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Barriers to Post Disaster Reconstruction: Report on Workshop

Jason Le Masurier, Suzanne Wilkinson
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2006/03. (PDF, 176K)

 

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Information Sharing During Disasters: Can we do it better?

Andre Dantas, Erica Seville and Alan Nicholson
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2006/02. (PDF, 1.7 Mb)

 

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International Reconstruction Experience: Study Tours to USA and Japan

Jason Le Masurier
Resilient Organisations Research Report 2006/01. (PDF, 224kB)

 

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Papers and Presentations

Where possible, we have made available copies of the original papers with permission. If you are interested in something you see here please let us know.

 

For a links to all papers presented at the 4th International i-Rec Conference on Post-Disaster Reconstruction click here.

 

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The Goal of Resilient Organisations

Erica Seville

Keynote presentation -  Business Continuity Institute Summit

Brisbane, March 2009.

 

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Building Organsations that are Resilient

Invited presentation to the South Island Health Emergency Managers Forum, March 2009.

 

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Enterprise Resiliency: A sustainable growth imperative

Erica Seville, Jim Porter, Geoff Askew

AVESC (Aviation Security) World 2008. Seoul, Korea.

 

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Resilience: Great Concept but What Does it Mean? Briefing Paper

Erica Seville

Council on Competitiveness - Risk Intelligence and Resilience Workshop,

November 2008, Wilmington, USA.

 

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Modelling livestock evacuation following a volcanic eruption: an example from Taranaki volcano, New Zealand

Thomas Wilson, Andre Dantas, Jim Cole

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2009, Vol. 52:99–110

Abstract: Livestock evacuation from farms affected by volcanic ashfall during or following a moderate to large volcanic eruption of Taranaki volcano would pose serious logistical challenges for emergency organisations. The volcanic hazards present during the eruption (such as volcanic ashfall) have the potential to significantly disrupt farming and transport operations in widespread areas both near to and far from the volcano. This paper presents a simplistic model that estimates the time and resources required to evacuate dairy cows from a large eruption from Taranaki volcano in New Zealand. Whilst intended to highlight the scale of time, money and logistics required for a large livestock evacuation, the model also provides a first step towards a model which can be run during periods of volcanic crisis to aid decision making. The model estimates that for a total evacuation of cows from dairy farms impacted by 100 mm of ashfall 208 000 cows would need to be evacuated and it would take at least 43 600 man-hours and cost >NZ$2,000,000. It would take 264 livestock truck and trailer units to evacuate this number of cows in 7 days, or 88 units in 21 days. It is therefore recommended that large-scale livestock evacuation and relocation should not be considered in future volcanic crisis planning, due to the large logistical requirements a large livestock evacuation would require in terms of time, livestock evacuation transport units, and lack of capacity of farms in surrounding regions to support the massive influx of additional livestock.

 

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Identifying Resilience in those Affected by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake

Regan Potangaroa, Menjun Wang, and Yan Chang,

Presented at Engineering Management Forum 2008. 2008: Erduosi, China

 

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Hazards and The Built Environment - Attaining built-in resilience

Edited by Lee Bosher. Le Masurier J, Wilkinson, S, Zuo K, Rotimi J, (2008), Chapter 13: Building Resilience by focusing on legal and contractual frameworks for disaster reconstruction, Taylor and Francis, London and New York.

 

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Building Resilient Organisations 

Erica Seville, John Vargo

A Dialogue on Resilience, Vancouver, Canada.  June 2008.

 

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Creating Global Resilience: Pushing the boundaries from either ends of the world (3.6Mb)

Peter Power, Erica Seville

World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, Canada.  June 2008.

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Crisis Strategic Planning: Finding the silver lining

John Vargo, Erica Seville

World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, Canada.  June 2008.

 

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Organisational Resilience: Researching the reality of New Zealand Organisations

Erica Seville, Andre Dantas, Jason Le Masurier, John Vargo, David Brunsdon, Suzanne Wilkinson

Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning, Volume 2, Issue 3, pp 258-266, April 2008.

 

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Building Organisations Resilient to Major Crises: Implications for Insurers

Erica Seville

Invited keynote presentation to the Asia and Oceania Association of Mutual Insurers, Christchurch March 2008.

 

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Facilitated Process for Improving Organizational Resilience
Sonia McManus, Erica Seville, John Vargo, David Brunsdon

Natural Hazards Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp81-90.

 

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Rapid Evaluation of Building Safety: Learnings from the December 2007 Gisborne Earthquake

David Brunsdon

Keynote Presentation given at the 2008 Australian Earthquake Engineering Society Conference, Ballarat, Victoria.

 

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The Risk Management Toolbox - A Guide to Facilitating Risk Thinking and Problem-solving in Organisations using the Risk Management Diagnostic Survey (RMDS)

Myburgh, D.

Lulu.com, ISBN: 978-1-84799-470-7,  First Edition, 2008.

 

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The Building Act and reconstruction programmes in New Zealand: Matters arising.

Rotimi, J.O.B., Wilkinson, S., Myburgh, D. and Zuo, K.  (2008).

Paper presented at the Building Abroad Conference on procurement of construction and reconstruction projects in the international context. Organised by the IF Research Group, Universite de Montreal, Canada. 23-25 October.  Pp. 373-383.

 

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Supply chain analysis and the sustainability of post disaster construction.

Zuo, K., Potangoroa, R., Wilkinson, S.  & Rotimi, J.O.B (2008).

Paper presented at the Building Abroad Conference on procurement of construction and reconstruction projects in the international context. Organised by the IF Research Group, Universite de Montreal, Canada. 23-25 October. Pp. 471-485.

 

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Assessing the Resilence of Roading Organisations to Earthquakes

Giovinazzi S., Dantas A., Ferreira F., Seville E.

NZSEE 2008 New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Annual Conference. Wairakei Resort, New Zealand, April 2008.

 

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Post-disaster Resource Availability following a Wellington Earthquake: Aggregates, Concrete and Cement

Bhesram Singh, Suzanne Wilkinson

4th International I-Rec Conference Building Resilience: achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction. Christchurch, New Zealand, April-May 2008. 

 

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Enhancing the reconstruction process for road networks: opportunities and challenges for using Information Technology

Giovinazzi S., Ferreira F., Dantas A., Seville E.

4th International I-Rec Conference Building Resilience: achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction. Christchurch, New Zealand, April-May 2008. 

 

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Towards a National Policy Framework for Post-Disaster Reconstruction in New Zealand

Rotimi, J., Wilkinson, S. and Myburgh, D.

4th International I-Rec Conference Building Resilience: achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction. Christchurch, New Zealand, April-May 2008. 

 

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The role of Urban Change Hierarchies in Post-Disaster Recovery Management

Hewitt, J., Potangaroa, R. and Wilkinson, S.

4th International I-Rec Conference Building Resilience: achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction. Christchurch, New Zealand, April-May 2008. 

 

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Conceptual Dynamic Response Recovery Tool for Emergency Events.

Ferriera, F. Dantas, A. Seville, E. (2007).

Third International Forum on Engineering Decision Making (IFED): "Optimal strategies for disaster and hazard mitigation". 12th to 15th December 2007. Port Stephens, NSW, Australia.

 

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The role of Urban Change Hierarchies in the Planning of Disaster Responses

Hewitt, J., Potangaroa, R. and Wilkinson, S.

Proceedings of the 7th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment, University of Salford, Manchester, UK. 2007 pp. 222-233.

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Proceedings of a Workshop on Emergency Management and Social Science Disaster Research in New Zealand (Report PDF 0.5Mb)
Te Papa, Wellington, 6th December 2007

Bruce Glavovic, Kathryn Jones, David Johnston (editors)

 

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Information Sharing During Emergency Response and Recovery: A framework for road organizations.

Andre Dantas, Erica Seville, Dharmista Gohil
Transportation Research Record, Volume 2022/2007, pg 22-28. 
http://trb.metapress.com/content/41k081l3l25867p6/

 

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National Organisational Resilience Workshop: The Outcomes….(Report, PDF 147k)

5th to 7th December 2007
Mt. Macedon Victoria, Australia

 

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Resilience Management: A framework for evaluating and improving organisational resilience (Presentation PDF, 300k)

Erica Seville, Sonia McManus, Dave Brunsdon, John Vargo
World Conference on Disaster Management, July 2007; Toronto, Canada

 

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Building Shared Organisational Resilience: a New Zealand approach (Poster PDF, 1Mb)

Erica Seville, Sonia McManus, Dave Brunsdon, John Vargo
1st International Workshop on Complexity and Organizational Resilience, 24-25 May 2007 Pohnpei, Micronesia

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Supply Chain and Material Procurement for Post-disaster Construction: The Boxing Day Tsunami Reconstruction Experience in Aceh, Indonesia

Zuo K; Potangaroa R; Wilkinson S, (2007), Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference 2007: From Warnings to Response and Recovery, Brisbane, Australia, 2-3 July 2007

 

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A Tale of Two Floods: Reconstruction after Flood Damage in New Zealand

Wilkinson S; Zuo K; Le Masurier J; Van Der Zon, J, (2007), CIB World Building Congress 2007: Construction for development, Paper no. CIB2007-007, Cape Town, South Africa, 14-18 May 2007.

 

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Regulatory Frameworks for Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Improving Resilience in the Process (PDF, 90k)

Jason Le Masurier, James Olabode Rotimi, Suzanne Wilkinson
CIB World Building Congress 2007, South Africa

 

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Comparison between Routine Construction and Post-Disaster Reconstruction with Case Studies from New Zealand

Jason Le Masurier, James O.B. Rotimi and Suzanne Wilkinson
22nd ARCOM Conference on Current Advances in Construction Management Research. 
Birmingham, U.K. 4th -6th September, 2006

 

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The Regulatory Framework for Effective Post-Disaster Reconstruction in New Zealand (PDF, 68k)

James O.B. Rotimi, Jason Le Masurier and Suzanne Wilkinson
Third International Conference on Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Meeting Stakeholder Interests. 
i-Rec, May 17 - 18, 2006, Florence, Italy

 

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Reconstruction Procurement Systems: The 2005 Matata Flood Reconstruction Experience

Zuo K; Wilkinson S; Le Masurier J; Van Der Zon, J, (2006), International Conference on Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Meeting Stakeholder Interests, i-Rec, Florence, Italy, May 17-19, 2006.

 

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An Analysis of the Alliancing Procurement Method for Reconstruction Following an Earthquake (PDF, 81k)

Dr. Jason Le Masurier, Dr. Suzanne Wilkinson, and Yana Shestakova
Proceedings of the 8th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Paper 290
April 18-22, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA

 

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Organisational Issues in Implementing an Information Sharing Framework: Lessons from the Matata Flooding Events in New Zealand.
Dantas, André and Seville, Erica
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 14 (1), 38-52. March 2006

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jccm/14/1

 

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Understanding the Vulnerability of Organisations (pdf, 76k)

Erica Dalziell
The 1855 Wairarapa Earthquake Symposium. Te Papa, Wellington. 8th – 9th September 2005.

 


Survey of Impacts on the Andaman Coast, Southern Thailand following the Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami of December 26, 2004.
Robert Bell, Hugh Cowan, Erica Dalziell, Noel Evans, Mike O’Leary, Bernie Rush, Lawrence Yule. (2005) Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering, Vol 38, No.3, September 2005.

This paper can be downloaded for free at the NZSEE website

 

 

Improving Organisational Resilience

Brunsdon, D. B., Dalziell, E. P. (2005).
15th World Conference on Disaster Management (WCDM), Toronto. July 2005
Presentation Handouts (164kb, PDF)

 

Making Organisations Resilient: Understanding the Reality of the Challenge (pdf, 81k)

Brunsdon, D. B., Dalziell, E. P. (2005).
Resilient Infrastructure Conference. Rotorua 8th-9th August 2005.


The Development of a Contractual Framework for Disaster Reconstruction
Suzanne Wilkinson, Sunil Gupta, Jason Le Masurier

 

Opportunities, Barriers and Challenges for Implementing Electronic Data and Information Sharing Frameworks in Organisational Response to Natural Disasters.

Dr. André Dantas, Dr. Erica Dalziell. (2005)
5th Annual IIASA-DPRI Meeting on Integrated Disaster Risk Management:, Beijing, China.

 

A data-information sharing framework for roading organizations’ response to a natural disaster.

Dharmista Gohil, André Dantas, Erica Dalziell (2005)
7th Asia Pacific ITS Forum & Exhibition 2005, Delhi, India

 

Resilience, Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity: Implications for Systems Performance (pdf 189k)

Dalziell, E. P., McManus, S. T. (2004).
International Forum for Engineering Decision Making (IFED); Switzerland. December 2004

 

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Student Theses and Reports

 

Organisational Resilience in New Zealand (7Mb)

Sonia McManus , PhD thesis 2008

 

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Resource Availability for Roading Reconstruction: A Wellington Earthquake Scenario (2Mb)

Bhesram Singh, Master's thesis 2007

 

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Strategies for Managing Business Vulnerability to Electricity Failure (pdf, 804k)

Hannan Stephenson, March 2007.

 

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Response Management by Key Organizations with respect to the State Highway Network of New Zealand and Road Closure Events

Andrew Newlands, 2006

ENCI 495 – Research Project, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Canterbury.

 

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Banda Aceh Fieldtrip Report (pdf, 350K)

Kelvin Zuo, August 2006.

 

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Development of A data-information sharing framework for roading organizations’ response to disasters/emergencies

Dharmista Gohil, 2005

Research Report as partial fulfillment of the requirement for Masters [in Transportation Engineering; University of Canterbury.

 

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Greymouth March 10th Tornado 2005: An investigation of the effects and subsequent response and recovery process

Kristen MacAskill. 3rd Professional Year Project. Student Research Report 2005/01. (1.5 Mb)

 

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Development of Tsunami Information Boards for Installation at Public Beaches

Lisa Woods, 3rd Professional Year Project. Student Research Report 2005/02. (1.7 Mb)

 

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Post-Disaster Reconstruction: New Zealand

Jetske van der Zon, Netherlands Exchange Student.
Student Research Report 2005/03. (pdf, 600k)