Recent Events

December 2006

Field Trip

Dr. Andre Dantas and the research students recently went on a field trip to see the location and terrain potentially affected by a major alpine fault event. They have taken GPS co-ordinates and photos of roading assets likely to be damaged and hope to incorporate these into a realistic disaster scenario simulation of how the DGIS could support decision making in such an event.

14th - 15th November 2006

Exercise Capital Quake ’'06

In November a large portion of the research team of the Resilient Organisations Programme were involved in the 06' Capital Quake exercise which simulated days 1 and 2 following a major Wellington Earthquake.

 

2nd October 2006

New research report available on-line

A new research report on 'Building Organisational Resilience: A summary of key research findings' is now available in pdf format on our publications page. This report provides a high level overview of key research findings to emerge from across the Resilient Organisations research programme over the last 2 years

 

20 September 2006

Kelvin Zou Reports on his Indonesian Fieldtrip

A brief summary is of Kelvin's time in Indonesia with Care International is available on our news page with a full report in PDF format available to download from the students reports section on our publications page

 

20 July 2006

Barriers to Post-Disaster Reconstruction Report

The summary report on the Barriers to Post-Disaster Reconstruction Workshop is now available on-line, on our publications page.