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Business Planning & Recovery
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Emergency Management
Household Relocation
Information Seeking & Trust
Travel Behaviour
Workshop Proceedings: Gisborne Earthquake

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Business Planning & Recovery

2011
Powell, F., Harding, A., Thomas, J. & Mora, K. (2011) Rapid response research in Christchurch: Providing evidence for recovery decisions and for future theoretical research. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, 2011 (2), 26-34 download


2011
Harding, A. & Powell, F. (2011) Variations in Pedestrian Traffic Count in Christchurch due to the September 2010 Darfield (Canterbury) Earthquake. Proceedings of the Ninth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Building an Earthquake-Resilient Society 14-16 April, 2011. Auckland, New Zealand download 600kb


2011
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2011) Using pedestrian traffic as an indicator of urban recovery: An Ongoing Case Study of Christchurch CBD. 2011 NZPI Planning Conference, 29 March-1 April 2011. Wellington, New Zealand download 530kb


2011
Powell, F. (2011) Business impacts and recovery: Research in progress at Opus Central Laboratories. Presentation at Business Impacts and Recovery Workshop: 22 February Canterbury Earthquake, 7 April. Christchurch, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F., Harding, A. & Dravitzki, V. (2010) Urban earthquakes and businesses in New Zealand: Learning from the 2007 Gisborne earthquake. In Proceedings of the 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 25-29 July. Toronto, Canada.


2010
Harding, A. & Powell, F. (2010) Small business and crisis management: Learning from the experience of recovery. Presented at the Cities at Risk Workshop, 4th Australasian Hazards Management Conference, 10-13 August. Wellington, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Business Recovery and the Rebuilding of Commercial Property. In A. Harding (Ed.), Shaken up: Proceedings of a workshop on recovery following the Gisborne Earthquake, 7 December 2009. Lower Hutt: Opus International Consultants Ltd download 934kb


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Business Recovery: Lessons from the 2007 Gisborne earthquake. Presentation to Christchurch City Council, Planning and Strategy teams, 17 November. Christchurch, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Business Recovery: Lessons from the 2007 Gisborne earthquake. Recovery Best-Practice: A national and international perspective. Seminar for those involved in the recovery effort, 28 September. Christchurch, New Zealand.


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Using pedestrian traffic as an indicator of urban recovery. Presentation to Christchurch City Council, Planning and Strategy teams, 17 November. Christchurch, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Post-earthquake recovery of different business precincts in Christchurch CBD: Report of 8 December 2010 pedestrian traffic survey. Opus Central Laboratories. Lower Hutt, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Post-earthquake recovery of different business precincts in Christchurch CBD: Report of 4 November 2010 pedestrian traffic survey. Opus Central Laboratories. Lower Hutt, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. & Harding, A. (2010) Post-earthquake recovery of different business precincts in Christchurch CBD: Report of 6 October 2010 pedestrian traffic survey. Opus Central Laboratories. Lower Hutt, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F., Harding, A. & Evans, N. (2010) 2007 Gisborne earthquake: Implications for New Zealand cities. NZIA and NZILA Talking Cities 2010 Lecture Series, 30 September. Wellington: Victoria University, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F. (2010) Urban earthquake events and businesses: Learning from the 2007 Gisborne Earthquake. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 25 (3), 54-59


2009
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


2009
Powell, F. & Lamb, S. (2009) 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


2009
Smith, K. & Walton, D. (2009) Returning to work after the big one: Predicting staff priorities in a dual role agency. International Journal of Emergency Management, 6 (2), 162-178


2008
Powell, F. (2008) Economic recovery after a disaster. Poster presented at the 2nd Australasian Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July. Wellington, New Zealand.


2008
Powell, F. (2008) Gisborne Rocks: An analysis of the impacts of 20 Dec 2007 earthquake on businesses in the Gisborne region (Working paper URU2008/03). Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Opus International Consultants


2008
Powell, F. (2008) Implications of December 2007 earthquake for commercial property owners in Gisborne CBD. (Working paper URU2008/02). Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Opus International Consultants download 110kb


2008
Powell, F. (2008) Networking and location decisions: Investigating the relationships of business owners and their spatial behaviour. Paper presented at the 24th New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, 2-5 July. Wellington, New Zealand


2008
Smith, K. & Walton, D. (2008) Return to work behaviour tools for business continuity planning. Poster presented at 2nd Australasian Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July, Wellington, New Zealand


2008
Powell, F. (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, New Zealand download 148kb


2008
Walton, D., & Smith, K. (2008) Business Continuity Planning. Report for Hutt City Council: Opus Central Laboratories Report Number 520846.03


2008
Walton, D., & Smith, K. (2008) Business Continuity Planning. Report for Porirua City Council: Opus Central Laboratories Report Number 520846.03


2005
Jewell, L. (2005) Economics and community resilience. Opus International Consultants working paper


Community Response and Survival

2011
Thomas, J., Mora, K., Murray, S., Walton, D., & Dravitzki, V. (2011) Community resilience, latent resources and resource scarcity after an earthquake: Is society really three meals away from anarchy? Paper presented at the 9th PCEE conference, 14-16 April. Auckland, New Zealand download 472kb


2009
Smith, K. & Walton, D. (2009) Survival confidence of New Zealanders in outdoor and post-earthquake situations. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 24 (3), 38-43


2006
Walton, D. (2006) Getting a shake up: Are responses to earthquakes informed, effective and reasonable? Lecture in the Psychology Seminar Series: University of Canterbury, 5 April 2006.


2005
Sunseri, S. (2005) Review of literature on Response behaviours in overseas disaster events. Opus Central Laboratories Report No. 520846.02 /1 download 178kb


Emergency Management

2010
Mora, K., Harding, A. & Thomas, J.A. (2010) Exercise Tangaroa and Phoenix VI Evaluation Opus Central Laboratories Report 5-20846.07


2006
Walton, D. (2006) Emergency Management Activities and Behaviours: Observations of Phoenix 4. CDEM National Forum, Wellington, 15-16 March


2005
Prentice, D. (2005) Two earthquake damage scenarios for the Wellington region Opus Central Laboratories Report No.5-20846.00/01


Household Relocation

2011
Mora, K., Thomas, J., Rive, G., Ladd, M. & Smail, K. (2011) Preliminary report on Household Relocation from and within the Canterbury Region, 22 February 2011 – 6 April 2011. Prepared for Statistics New Zealand and Christchurch City Council download 2.3mb


2011
Mora, K., Thomas, J. & Rive, G. (2011) Preliminary report on Household Relocation from and within the Canterbury Region, 22 February 2011 – 10 March 2011. Prepared for Statistics New Zealand and Christchurch City Council download 1.66mb


2010
Mora, K. & Thomas, J.A. (2010) Preliminary report on Household Relocation in the Canterbury Region 6-30 September 2010. Opus Central Laboratories: Lower Hutt, New Zealand


2010
Powell, F., Harding, A.J. & Thomas, J.A. (2010) Household relocations in the Canterbury region, September-October 2010. Opus Central Laboratories: Lower Hutt, New Zealand


Information Seeking & Trust

Under review
Lamb, S., Walton, D., Mora, K. & Thomas, J. (Under review) An experimental investigation of authoritative sources of information and evacuation order characteristics on the likelihood of evacuation in a simulated flood event. Natural Hazards Review


2008
Lamb, S. & Walton, D. (2008) Gisborne 2007 earthquake: Travel and information seeking. Poster presentation at the second Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July, Wellington


2008
Walton, D., Lamb, S. & Dravitzki, V. (2008) Post-earthquake information seeking. Poster presentation at 2nd Australasian Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July. Wellington, New Zealand


2007
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 2007 - Vol. 4, No.4 pp. 630 - 648


Travel Behaviour

2011
Lamb, S. & Walton, D. (2011) Travel behaviours following the 2007 Gisborne earthquake: Evidence for the use of simulation in earthquake research. International Journal of Emergency Management, 8(1), 42-59


2010
Walton, D. (2010) How and why earthquakes induce people to travel about. In A. Harding (Ed.), Shaken up: Proceedings of a workshop on recovery following the Gisborne Earthquake, 7 December 2009. Lower Hutt: Opus International Consultants Ltd. download 2,784mb


2009
Powell, F. & Lamb, S. (2009) 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


2009
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, 6 (1), 14-32


2009
Walton, D. & Lamb, S. (2009) Factors influencing vehicle abandonment following a simulated earthquake event. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 26 (1), 40-46


2009
Walton, D. Smith, K. & Lamb, S. (2009) Rational chaos: Human and traffic behaviour in earthquake events. Tephra, 31-37


2008
Lamb, S. & Walton, D. (2008) Gisborne 2007 earthquake: Travel and information seeking. Poster presentation at the second Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July. Wellington, New Zealand


2008
Walton, D. & Lamb, S. (2008) Post-earthquake travel behaviours: An experimental simulation. Poster presentation at 2nd Australasian Hazards Management Conference, 28-31 July, Wellington, New Zealand


2007
Lamb, S., Walton, D., Dravitzki, V. & Murray, S. (2007) Post-Earthquake Travel Behaviours: An Experimental Simulation. Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference, 2-3 July, Brisbane, Australia


2007
Walton, D. (2007) Applied psychology in practice. Lecture to M. Applied Psychology students at University of Canterbury, July


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


2006
Walton, D., Lamb, S., Dravitzki, V. & Finnis, K. (2006) Post-event behaviours: Methods used to establish the information needs and travel movements of New Zealanders following a large-scale earthquake. Paper presented at the 7th New Zealand Natural Hazard Management Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand


2005
Lamb, S., Walton, D. & Thomas, J. (2005) Demand for travel in the Wellington Region following a major earthquake. Lower Hutt, New Zealand: Opus International Consultants download 195kb


Workshop Proceedings: Gisborne Earthquake

Full proceedings:
Harding, A. (Ed.) (2010) Shaken up: Proceedings of a workshop on recovery following the Gisborne Earthquake. Wellington, 7 December 2009. Lower Hutt: Opus International Consultants Ltd download 14,774mb


Individual sections:

Covers download 1,867mb


Foreword & Contents by Vince Dravitzki, Opus Central Laboratories download 278kb

Introduction: Recovery as an Holistic Concept by Alan Walker, MCDEM download 292kb

The Earthquake's Impacts on Buildings and Infrastructure by Noel Evans, Opus Napier download 6,701mb

How and Why Earthquakes Induce People to Travel About by Dr Darren Walton, Opus Central Laboratories download 2,794mb

The Community's Experience of Recovery: Preliminary Findings from the 2007 Gisborne Earthquake Household Damage and Preparedness Survey by Wendy Saunders and Julia Becker, GNS Science download 832kb

Business Recovery and the Rebuilding of Commercial Property by Dr Felicity Powell and Dr Abigail Harding, Opus Central Laboratories download 934kb

Co-ordination of State and Private Funding of Repairs by John Lucas, Insurance Council of New Zealand download 283kb

Strong Similarities between Two Urban Earthquakes: Gisborne 2007 and Newcastle 1989 by Dave Brunsdon, Resilient Organisations download 3,569mb

Panel Discussion joined by Peter Higgs, Gisborne District Council download 288kb



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