By taking a ‘whole-of-society’ approach, and mobilising key sectors and communities to work together, we can strengthen Aotearoa New Zealand’s capacity to plan for, respond to, and equitably and effectively recover from multiple hazard risks.
Theme
Leader:
Julia Becker, Massey University
Living with Risk
The Living with Risk theme places people at the centre of risk reduction and resilience.
What are we doing?
The Living with Risk theme aims to:
- Understand how people experience and respond (or not) to risk
- Consider influences and vulnerabilities that can support or limit people’s ability to respond to risk
- Bring together and summarise lessons from previous events (across the ‘4Rs’ of risk reduction, readiness, response, and recovery), and consider future event scenarios
- Provide science-based decision-support guidance and tools, suitable for use in real-world environments.
Focus areas
Projects are designed to address the following areas:
- Drivers of action and archetypes of inaction (how people experience and respond to risk)
- Distributional resilience (systematic and diverse influences on resilience and vulnerability)
- Adaptation futures (considering future hazard and risk scenarios)
- Recovery pathways, including lessons from previous events (joint focus area with the Better Resilience Decisions theme).
How are we doing it?
We are working closely with the Platform’s other science themes on place- and problem-based projects. We’re leverage our deep partnerships with central government agencies, councils, hapū and iwi, emergency managers and industry groups, built over nearly two decades of collaboration, to strengthen the use and application of our research.
Through these collaborations, the team will develop robust new decision pathways, governance frameworks, and recovery trajectories, alongside innovative tools, processes, and practices.