The research programme has four objectives :

1. To identify the relationship between resilience, social recovery and economic recovery in the context of a natural disaster in a New Zealand urban area, and in particular identify the aspects of resilience and social recovery that are most effective at facilitating economic recovery;



2. To identify the role of mobility in community resilience to natural disasters including: (1) our need for mobility in the response to a natural disaster and its aftermath; (2) the extent that these needs are likely to be met; and (3) the contribution that improvements to mobility will make to social recovery;



3. To identify the role of communication and information in community resilience, including: (1) the community’s need for information; (2) sources of “authoritative” information, (3) the availability and accessibility of information; and (4) the influence that the available information, or lack of it, will have on individual and community actions, (5) the ability of the media to provide the necessary authoritative information;



4. To identify and develop the processes and tools for building both formal and informal emergency leadership within the community.

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