Resilient Organisations partnered with Market Economics and GNS Science to carry out economic modelling of a Wellington Fault event.

The modelling was designed to evaluate the benefits of a range of infrastructure investment options in the Wellington region.  The modelling was carried out using MERIT, a state of the art economic modelling tool developed to estimate the economic impacts of infrastructure disruption.

Resilient Organisations led the development of the behavioural assumptions that underpin the economic modelling. Drawing on data from the Canterbury earthquakes, international disaster events, and a series of workshops with key Wellington stakeholders, Resilient Organisations developed model assumptions around likely population and business behaviours following a Wellington Fault earthquake.