Risk

Use of Riskscape as a national tool, along with related models, by emergency management authorities, response planners, and lifeline utility operators, will underpin emergency management and response decisions with consistent, rational, risk-informed information, enabling prioritisation of both mitigation and response planning measures.

As a consequence, New Zealand society will have enhanced its overall resilience to natural hazards through prioritised expenditure and reduction of both social and economic impacts of at-risk communities.

The outcome will be achieved through partnering with local and central government agencies, engineering and lifeline operators and insurance industries responsible for emergency management, land-use planning, public and private utilities and risk transfer.

This research contributes to Reduction and Response through the National CDEM Strategy goals of Reducing the risks from hazards to New Zealand and Enhancing New Zealand’s capability to manage civil defence emergencies by providing tools to perform quantitative risk assessments and providing near real-time estimates of hazards event impacts.