Rural organizational impacts, mitigation strategies, and resilience to the 2010 Darfield earthquake, New Zealand

Whitman, Zachary; Wilson, Thomas; Seville, Erica; Vargo, John J.; Stevenson, Joanne; Kachali, Hlekiwe; Cole, Jim

doi:10.1007/s11069-013-0782-z

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“…In New Zealand and elsewhere, social ties and recognition of the importance of place have had demonstrated resilience outcomes [8,25,93]. Accordingly, developing networks, fostering connections and promoting collaboration can all contribute to resilience pre-and post-disaster [43,94,95]. For example, the original group from the farmer's market network provided the basis for renewed debate and discussion about strengthening local food networks.…”

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Transformations for Resilient Rural Futures: The Case of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand

2018

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On 14 November 2016, a magnitude (M w ) 7.8 earthquake struck the small coastal settlement of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand. With an economy based on tourism, agriculture, and fishing, Kaikōura was immediately faced with significant logistical, economic, and social challenges caused by damage to critical infrastructure and lifelines, essential to its main industries. Massive landslips cut off road and rail access, stranding hundreds of tourists, and halting the collection, processing and distribution of agricultural products. At the coast, the seabed rose two metres, limiting harbour-access to high tide, with implications for whale watching tours and commercial fisheries. Throughout the region there was significant damage to homes, businesses, and farmland, leaving owners and residents facing an uncertain future. This paper uses qualitative case study analysis to explore post-quake transformations in a rural context. The aim is to gain insight into the distinctive dynamics of disaster response mechanisms, focusing on two initiatives that have emerged in direct response to the disaster. The first examines the ways in which agriculture, food harvesting, production and distribution are being reimagined with the potential to enhance regional food security. The second examines the rescaling of power in decision-making processes following the disaster, specifically examining the ways in which rural actors are leveraging networks to meet their needs and the consequences of that repositioning on rural (and national) governance arrangements. In these and other ways, the local economy is being revitalised, and regional resilience enhanced through diversification, capitalising not on the disaster but the region's natural, social, and cultural capital. Drawing on insights and experience of local stakeholders, policy-and decision-makers, and community representatives we highlight the diverse ways in which these endeavours are an attempt to create something new, revealing also the barriers which needed to be overcome to reshape local livelihoods. Results reveal that the process of transformation as part of rural recovery must be grounded in the lived reality of local residents and their understanding of place, incorporating and building on regional social, environmental, and economic characteristics. In this, the need to respond rapidly to realise opportunities must be balanced with the community-centric approach, with greater recognition given to the contested nature of the decisions to be made. Insights from the case examples can inform preparedness and recovery planning elsewhere, and provide a rich, real-time example of the ways in which disasters can create opportunities for reimagining resilient futures.

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Transformations for Resilient Rural Futures: The Case of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand

2018

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“…Westland, Bay of Plenty, Ruapehu, and Hawke's Bay have also been studied more than once. Future studies could apply the Statistics New Zealand (2014) categorisation of rural areas to determine differences between those that have high, moderate, low, or minimal urban influence to investigate how to build resilience across different settings (see Whitman et al 2013).…”

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“…Organisations' recovery post-disaster is positively correlated with how quickly utilities are repaired (Kachali et al 2012;Wilson and Cole 2007;Whitman et al 2013Whitman et al , 2014, and backup provisions for such services can enhance resilience (Whitman et al 2013). Policy to enable rapid reinstatement of infrastructure-bypassing the usual public consultation requirements-could help in this regard (Rotimi and Wilkinson 2014).…”

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Characterising rural resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a systematic review

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The concept of 'resilience' has recently gained traction in a range of contexts. Its various interpretations and framings are now used to examine a variety of issues, particularly relating to the human dimensions of global change. This can pose challenges to scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers seeking to develop focused research programmes, design targeted interventions, and communicate across disciplinary boundaries. The concept of resilience is widely used in Aotearoa-New Zealand, where it informs both government policy and research programmes. Resilience is particularly relevant in this small developed nation, which is heavily reliant on primary production in rural areas and affected by a range of geological and climatic hazards. To understand the range and extent of application of resilience in the rural context, we use systematic review methods to identify, characterise, and synthesise this knowledge base. Currently, research applying the concept of resilience in the rural context is limited in areal extent, largely quantitative in nature, and led by a small number of researchers. There is limited evidence of collaboration. Research has focused on a small number of hazards, failing to capture the diversity of risks and hazards in addition to their impacts. The results of our analysis and methodology offer important insights for meta-analyses of risk and hazard scholarship. The findings provide a baseline to track the future progress and effectiveness of resilience interventions and help inform current and future research priorities targeting persistent vulnerabilities in rural New Zealand and elsewhere.

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“…(4) Analyzing the particular adaptation requirements of a particular region or community to identify which decisions or strategies can effectively improve the adaptation of regions or communities, to determine the specific implementation plan for improving the adaptation of regions or communities, and to implement the "bottom-up" decisionmaking process [38].…”

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A Systematic Review of Research on Anti-disaster Capability in Urban Disaster

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Since the 20th century, the number of disasters, economic losses, and people affected by disasters occurred in cities all over the world has been increasing significantly due to increased contradictions in population, resources, and the environment. Therefore, anti-disaster capability as the core concept of research on urban sustainable development has become a common concern in many disciplines, such as ecology, disaster management, and climate change. To summarize the basic connotations, characteristics, and quantitative assessment methods of anti-disaster capability in urban disaster, and to extract its context and development trend, our study analyzed the concept and characteristics of anti-urban disaster capability, examined the mutual relationship among anti-disaster capability, adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience, and reviewed the concepts of and assessment research on three concentrated fields (i.e., adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience) on the basis of global literature on anti-disaster capability. On this basis, our study then analyzed the main problems in current research on anti-disaster capability, overlooked the key issues and the future research direction of anti-disaster capability. The findings will provide an important technical reference for the implementation of integrated disaster management and mitigation measures.

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Rural organizational impacts, mitigation strategies, and resilience to the 2010 Darfield earthquake, New Zealand

Cited by 26 publications

References 43 publications

Transformations for Resilient Rural Futures: The Case of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Transformations for Resilient Rural Futures: The Case of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Characterising rural resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a systematic review

A Systematic Review of Research on Anti-disaster Capability in Urban Disaster

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