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  • The domino effect of natural hazards: Why cascading impacts demand alignment and consistency in resilience efforts

    The domino effect of natural hazards: Why cascading impacts demand alignment and consistency in resilience efforts

    Cascading failures present a major risk to our increasingly interdependent and interconnected infrastructure. Such failures could increase the impact of extreme weather or hazards by more than 200%. For instance, impact to an electrical asset may result in cascading power loss that could result in a water pump losing electricity, resulting in a hospital or…

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  • The Resilience of Access

    The Resilience of Access

    This work was first published in the Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. View the paper here While numerous studies have been completed to understand the reliability and resilience of transport networks, current assessments often neglect two things: the wider objective of the network (which is to allow people to travel between…

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  • How to Plan Tomorrow’s Cities?

    How to Plan Tomorrow’s Cities?

    Context and Motivation Today’s urban planning is more complex than ever: climate change, the housing crisis, natural hazards, and chronic disease mean that planning decisions must consider multiple objectives. Aotearoa New Zealand’s planning landscape is also shifting with the recent NPS on Urban Development, the likely introduction of the Strategic Planning Act, and climate risk…

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