Planning for Tsunami-Resilient Communities

The 2010 tsunami in Chile: Devastation and survival of coastal small-scale fishing communities

“…Initiatives should be drawn from and consider the experience and knowledge from the 2010 tsunami survivors, fishing, and coastal communities that proved to possess wellestablished responding capacities to unpredictable hazards. Community preparedness provides strong basis for tsunamiresilient communities [16]. The critical task is to design and implement integrated human-made and social network-based response systems to offer safer places to dwell and visit.…”

Potentials, problems and possibilities for developing New Zealand’s built environment through high-value geospatial information

“…The value of data, and in particular geospatial data, lies in its contribution to building healthy, productive and resilient communities (Jonientz-Trisler et al 2005;Graham et al 2011;Nykiforuk & Flaman 2011;Musa et al 2013;Villagra et al 2014;Bernknopf & Shapiro 2015;Bureau of Communications Research 2016). Data has high value particularly when planning is complex and the benefits accrued may be uncertain (Henderson 1986), meaning deliberate design and policy choices are necessary (Rydin et al 2012).…”

Interactions between communities improve the resilience of multicultural societies

“…In particular, one could consider more extreme versions of a lockdown, where meetings are strictly forbidden/impossible during a limited period of time. This could represent a war [34,35] or any massive environmental disruption, such as earthquakes [36,37], tsunamis [38,39] or floods [40,41].…”