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News
NZ communities to benefit from disaster collaboration
Massey news
2/6/2009
New Zealand communities will be better prepared for natural hazards
such as earthquakes, floods and other climate change issues, thanks
to a partnership with a top United States disaster research centre. Massey
University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University
of North Carolina (UNC) allowing it’s Wellington-based
Joint Centre for Disaster Research to work with UNC’s Centre
for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters.
...
Massey
PhD student wins building research award
Massey News 29/5/2008
Research into keeping people safe from flooding and tsunamis has
earned PhD scholar Wendy Saunders the prestigious Zonta Building
Research Award. It was presented to her by the Governer General
Anand Satyanand at Government House earlier this week.
....
Preparing
the health services for emergency management
Massey News 5/4/2007
Health services deal with routine crises every day, but
little is known about how they would perform in a major emergency
such as an influenza pandemic.
PhD student Debra Ellis will study how staff at the Auckland District
Health Board cope during a national influenza pandemic exercise
this month.
....
Disaster
research centre established
Massey News 8/8/2006
A new research centre established by the University and GNS Science
aims to better prepare New Zealand against natural disasters.
Based at the School of Psychology on the Wellington campus, the
joint Centre for Disaster Research concentrates the skills of psychologists,
sociologists, planners, geologists, risk assessors, Mäori researchers,
and economists from both organisations.
A function to celebrate the establishment of the centre was held
at the institute’s Lower Hutt office last week with Research,
Science and Technology Minister Steve Maharey witnessing the signing
of an agreement.
....
New
research centre to assist in preparation
Massey News, 22/3/2006
New Zealand needs a better understanding of the human impacts
of natural disasters, says the director of a new Centre for Disaster
Research.
Associate Professor David Johnston says recent disasters in New
Orleans and Indonesia show we need to better understand how communities
are affected by such events.
The University and GNS Science have opened a joint Centre for Disaster
Research to better prepare New Zealand against natural disasters.
Based at the School of Psychology, the joint centre concentrates
the skills of psychologists, sociologists, planners, geologists,
risk assessors, Mäori researchers, and economists from both
organisations and other collaborating groups.
....
Publication Links
Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies
http://trauma.massey.ac.nz/issues/current.shtml
The Natural Hazards Centre
http://www.naturalhazards.net.nz/publications/nhu
GNS Science
http://www.gns.cri.nz/research/publications/index.html
NIWA
http://www.niwa.co.nz/pubs
EQC
http://www.eqc.govt.nz/abouteqc/publications/mediastatements.aspx
Online Institutional Repository, Disaster Research Center
(DRC), University of Delaware
http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/35
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