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Review of literature on response behaviours in overseas disaster events (Download 178KB)
Demand for travel in the Wellington region following a major earthquake (Download 195KB)
Proceedings of ‘Shaken Up’ a workshop on recovery following the Gisborne Earthquake, held in Wellington on 7 December 2009
Foreword & Contents (Download 278KB)
Vince Dravitzki, Opus Central Laboratories
Introduction: Recovery as an Holistic Concept (Download 292KB)
Alan Walker, MCDEM
The Earthquake’s Impacts on Bulidings and Infrastruture (Download 6701KB)
Noel Evans, Opus Napier
How and Why Earthquakes Induce People to Travel About (Download 2794KB)
Dr Darren Walton, Opus Central Laboratories
The Community’s Experience of Recovery: Preliminary Findings from the 2007 Gisborne Earthquake Household Damage and Preparedness Survey (Download 832KB)
Weny Saunders and Julia Becker, GNS Science
Business Recovery and the Rebuilding of Commercial Property (Download 934KB)
Dr Felicity Powell and Dr Abigail Harding, Opus Central Laboratories
Co-ordination of State and Private Funding of Repairs (Download 283KB)
John Lucas, Insurance Council of New Zealand
Strong Similarities Between Two Urban Earthquakes: Gisborne 2007 and Newcastle 1989 (Download 3569KB)
Dave Brunsdon, Resilient Organisations
Panel Discussion (Download 288KB)
Joined by Peter Higgs, Gisborne District Council
Conference Announcement (Download 383KB)
Paul Finlay, Waitakere Consulting Engineers
Covers (Download 1867KB)

The following publications are available on request

Journal Papers

1. * Walton, D. & Lamb, S. (2009). An experimental investigation of post-earthquake travel behaviours: The effects of severity and initial location. International Journal of Emergency Management (In Press).

2. * Smith, K. & Walton, D. (2008). Returning to work after the big one: Predicting staff priorities in a dual role agency. International Journal of Emergency management. (Under review).

3. * Smith, K. & Walton, D. (2009). Survival confidence of New Zealanders in outdoor and post-earthquake situations. Australian Journal of Emergency Management (under review)

4. * Walton, D., Lamb, S. & Dravitzki, V (2007). An experimental investigation of the influence of media type on individual perceptions of the severity of earthquake events. International Journal of Emergency Management, 4, 630-648.

5. * Lamb, S. & Walton, D. (2008). Travel behaviours following the 2007 Gisborne earthquake: Evidence for the use of simulation in earthquake research. International Journal of Emergency Management. (Under review: IJEM-7465)

6. * Walton, D. & Lamb, S. (2009). Factors influencing vehicle abandonment following a simulated earthquake event. Australian Journal of Emergency Management (under review).

7. * Powell, F. (2009) Urban earthquake events and businesses: Learning from the 2007 Gisborne Earthquake. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. (under review)

Conference Presentations: Peer Reviewed Presentations

8. * Powell, Felicity (2008) 'Socially embedded relationships of firms: An aid to recovery in a vulnerable community?', Paper presented at 4th i-Rec conference, 30 April-2 May, Christchurch.

Workshops and Seminars

* Powell F., and Lamb S. (Feb 2009) Gisborne. A seminar presentation of findings of the Gisborne post-earthquake travel behaviour study and the business recovery studies made to invited end-users from Heart of Gisborne town centre programme, Gisborne chamber of commerce, Gisborne City Council, and NZ Transport Agency.

* Powell, F. (2009) Summary paper of research on business recovery, sent to Paul Nickalls, Hutt Valley Emergency Management Group, and Anne Stevenson, National Manager, Emergency Management, MSD.

* Walton, D. (2007) Post-earthquake travel behaviours: An experimental simulation. Presentation to emergency managers at the Tsunami Evacuation Planning Meeting, Wellington.

* Two invited lectures at the University of Canterbury: Walton, D. (2006). Getting a shake up: Are responses to earthquakes informed, effective and reasonable? Lecture in the Psychology Seminar Series: University of Canterbury, April 5th 2006. Walton, D. (2007). Applied psychology in practice: Lecture to M. Applied Psychology students at University of Canterbury, July 2007.

Please contact Vince Dravitzki or Dr Darren Walton for further information

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