ResOrgs

12/04/2023

Great to share our work on understanding societal expectations for the seismic performance of buildings with the UC CURE community last month. We’d love to see the method we developed being applied to other areas such as infrastructure service expectations.

What do you think?

To check out the poster: https://www.resorgs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/NZSEE_QuakeCore2021.png

To find out more about the project: https://www.resorgs.org.nz/our-projects/risk-and-resilience-decision-making/nzsee-resilient-buildings-project/

11/04/2023

Why is communicating risk about natural hazards and climate change so difficult? Check out our poster, featuring the 9 key challenges we face engaging communities on natural hazard risk.

Do you agree with the challenges we’ve identified? Share your thoughts in the comments.

To check out the poster see:https://www.resorgs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ResOrgs_LTAR_2023.pdf

To find out more about the project: https://www.resorgs.org.nz/our-projects/risk-and-resilience-decision-making/lets-talk-about-risk/

06/04/2023

Does the way we communicate seismic risk information about buildings influence tenants’ decisions on what buildings they occupy?

That’s the question we are asking in this BRANZ and Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment funded research. Check out our poster describing the project and what we plan to do over the next year:https://www.resorgs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ResOrgs_Seismic_Risk_Communication_poster_2023.pdf

Learn more about the project here: https://www.resorgs.org.nz/our-projects/risk-and-resilience-decision-making/seismic-risk-comms/

04/04/2023

Last week, Resilient Organisations and Otago Civil Defence and Emergency Management ran workshops throughout Otago to help prepare businesses for disruption.

Do you know what impact natural hazards might have on your organisation?

Do you have a plan in place for when these hazards occur?

We have free resources available to help get you started: https://www.resorgs.org.nz/resources/

For more information on natural hazards in your region – check out your local Civil Defence and Emergency Management website.

02/04/2023

Resilient Organisations were pleased to work with HRNZ to develop an article for their latest magazine. The article on pages 38-41 draws from our Staffed or Stuffed guide, providing practical advice for supporting staff through crisis.

Human Resources magazine is New Zealand’s leading publication for human resources professionals, people leaders and business owners. Published quarterly by HRNZ (Human Resources Institute of New Zealand), regular columns include Best Practice Case Studies; Employment & Immigration Law updates and ...

09/03/2023

Join the Resilient Organisations team at 5pm on the 21st March at the Resilience Poster Symposium at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre.

This event is open to all with an interest in urban and community resilience.

For more information see:

This event will showcase transdisciplinary research relating to Urban and Community Resilience. We invite attendees from community-based groups, Council and Government teams, University undergraduate and graduate students, and the wider research community, as well as University leadership and staff....

01/02/2023

Our thoughts are with all those currently impacted by the Auckland floods.

For organisations impacted in the region, we wanted to highlight our free downloadable booklet “Striving through”. It will help you respond and recover, providing quick, practical advice to help navigate the recovery journey.

Please share with your networks

In the midst of a crisis? This booklet will help you respond, recovery, and thrive and provides quick, practical advice to help navigate the three stages of the recovery journey.

30/09/2022

WHAT'S COMING OVER THE HORIZON?

An excellent, thought-provoking presentation from Queenstown Lakes own, and longtime colleague of mine, Dr Erica Seville, of Resilient Organisations, at the NZ Lifeline Utilities conference at the Memorial Centre.

Erica focused on our need to become more aware of and resilient to the multiple, increasingly complex challenges that we are going to face in the future.

Erica was a member of the QLDC Regenerative Recovery Group that produced an excellent report last year intended to achieve a more sustainable and resilient set of communities, environment, and economy through a planned and managed recovery programme.

Unfortunately QLDC have not followed up with a recovery plan. There are serious consequences and opportunities from COVID and responses to it that are being missed because we don't have a plan.

Collaboratively developing and delivering a COVID recovery plan is one of my priorities if I am elected.

The report is available here:

https://www.qldc.govt.nz/recovery/regenerative-recovery-advisory-group #:~:text=The%20advisory%20group%20was%20formed,of%20backgrounds%2C%20knowledge%20and%20experiences.

27/09/2022

Keen to understand more about society’s expectations for seismic performance of buildings?

The detailed supplementary reports for the Toka Tū Ake EQC -funded NZSEE Resilient Buildings Project are now available!

These reports detail our data collection methods, analysis, and results. Food for thought, especially for those of you interested in understanding how communities perceive and tolerate risk.

Interview report:https://www.resorgs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RBP_SocietalExpectations_Interview_Report.pdf

Focus group report:https://www.resorgs.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RBP_SocietalExpectations_FocusGroup_Report.pdf

For more information about the project and all related reports:
https://www.resorgs.org.nz/our-projects/risk-and-resilience-decision-making/nzsee-resilient-buildings-project/

26/09/2022

What influences individuals’ and communities’ risk tolerance and willingness to reduce risk in the buildings they use and own?

This is one of the questions we explored with participants in our recent Toka Tū Ake EQC funded, NZSEE Resilient Buildings Project (https://www.resorgs.org.nz/our-projects/risk-and-resilience-decision-making/nzsee-resilient-buildings-project/). To know how to effectively regulate and incentivise risk reduction, we need to understand what spurs people into action and what stops them.

Beyond the usual cost-benefit equation, a number of barriers were identified including anticipated disruption to infrastructure services and neighbourhoods, assumed post-earthquake government support, and lack of trust in engineering and construction sector to effectively reduce risk. With rising inflation, housing costs and the economic hangover from Covid, there was also a lot of concern over where the cost of increased seismic resilience would fall. Last, for many large businesses risk of damage at one location, across a nationwide operation, is acceptable. Acceptable for that business perhaps but sometimes very impactful for the communities employed by those organisations.

Understanding barriers to change is a vital part in any change process. Get in touch if you want to find out more.