About Resilience Platform
The Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform is a multi-organisational, collaborative research programme with a mission to enhance Aotearoa New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.
We build on the achievements and ways of working in the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge Kia Manawaroa – Ngā Ākina o Te Ao Tūroa (2014-2024).
The Platform brings together researchers, practitioners, communities, and decision-makers from across the country. By combining diverse expertise, knowledge, and perspectives, we are generating new knowledge, and developing practical tools to support people and places to prepare for, respond to, and recover from future hazard events.
Te Pae Tūroa
Our ingoa Māori (te reo Māori name), Te Pae Tūroa, evokes the image of a mountain – steadfast, enduring, and deeply rooted in the whenua. It is a symbol of resilience that transcends time, standing firm through shifting skies, turbulent seasons, and generations of change.
This concept speaks to a platform of strength where people, place, and knowledge remain anchored, even as the world around them transforms. It honours the enduring nature of the relationship between people and whenua, and the wisdom the comes from weaving together knowledge systems.
Te Pae Tūroa is a call to stand grounded, to endure with dignity, and to carry forward the legacy of those who stood before us.
This ingoa was provided to us by Jack Potaka (Ngāti Hauiti).
Our strategy
Through wide engagement with researchers and research users, we developed the following long-term strategic goals for the Platform:
- New Zealand’s natural hazard resilience system is continuously improving through innovative science and technology development
- New Zealanders understand their dynamic natural environment and know how to anticipate, adapt, and thrive in the face of hazard risks.
Our structure and approach is designed to progress the key science research, innovation, partnerships and community outreach that will address these strategic goals.
Our People
Meet our leaders, staff and governance team responsible for implementing the Platform strategy, providing science direction in our themes and programmes, managing integration across the Platform, and overseeing engagement and partnering for impact.
TE RAUTAKI MĀORI MŌ TE MANAWAROA
The knowledge, leadership, and lived experience of Māori communities are essential to strengthening disaster resilience in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Te Rautaki Māori mō te Manawaroa guides the Resilience Platform’s work to support Māori aspirations, foster collaboration, grow capability, and help build a resilience system that is inclusive, adaptive, and grounded in partnership.
Post-Event Research, Insights and Learning (PERIL)
Following a damaging natural hazard event, well-coordinated science activities can support recovery and deliver new insights to build future resilience.
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