Remittances for Disaster Risk Management: Perspectives from Pacific Island Migrants Living in New Zealand

In Aotearoa New Zealand, disaster risk management (DRM) aspires to protect the lives and livelihoods of people and places. It does this by encouraging people and communities to be disaster ready, while ensuring reduction of potential and actual harm from a disaster, responding immediately and directly following a disaster, and recovering so that there is ongoing regeneration and resiliency for the people and communities impacted by a disaster.

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Challenges and Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation Among Pacific Island Nations

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1001/dmp.2011.44 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 415-423

Author(s):

Mollie J. Mahany ◽

Mark E. Keim

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Climate Change ◽

Risk Management ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Small Island ◽

Pacific Island ◽

Small Island Developing States ◽

The Pacific

ABSTRACTFew regions of the world are at higher risk for environmental disasters than the Pacific Island countries and territories. During 2004 and 2005, the top public health leadership from 19 of 22 Pacific Island countries and territories convened 2 health summits with the goal of developing the world's first comprehensive regional strategy for sustainable disaster risk management as applied to public health emergencies. These summits followed on the objectives of the 1994 Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and those of the subsequent Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World. The outputs of the 2004 and 2005 Pacific Health Summits for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management provide a detailed description of challenges and accomplishments of the Pacific Island health ministries, establish a Pacific plan of action based upon the principles of disaster risk management, and provide a locally derived, evidence-based approach for many climate change adaptation measures related to extreme weather events in the Pacific region. The declaration and outputs from these summits are offered here as a guide for developmental and humanitarian assistance in the region (and for other small-island developing states) and as a means for reducing the risk of adverse health effects resulting from climate change.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2012;6:415-423)

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Building urban and infrastructure resilience through connectivity: An institutional perspective on disaster risk management in Christchurch, New Zealand

Cities ◽

10.1016/j.cities.2019.102573 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 98 ◽

pp. 102573 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Andreas Huck ◽

Jochen Monstadt ◽

Peter Driessen

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

New Zealand ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Institutional Perspective ◽

Infrastructure Resilience

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Opioid substitution treatment and disasters: perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand

10.26686/wgtn.14198696 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Denise Blake

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

New Zealand ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Substitution Treatment ◽

Opioid Substitution Treatment ◽

Aotearoa New Zealand ◽

The People ◽

Actual Harm ◽

Opioid Substitution

In Aotearoa New Zealand, disaster risk management (DRM) aspires to protect the lives and livelihoods of people and places. It does this by encouraging people and communities to be disaster ready, while ensuring reduction of potential and actual harm from a disaster, responding immediately and directly following a disaster, and recovering so that there is ongoing regeneration and resiliency for the people and communities impacted by a disaster.

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Knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary disaster risk management initiatives: cocreation insights and experience from New Zealand

Ecology and Society ◽

10.5751/es-11928-250425 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Tyler M. Barton ◽

Sarah J. Beaven ◽

Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry ◽

Thomas M. Wilson

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

New Zealand ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management

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The Case for a Theology of Disaster Risk Management

Christian Journal for Global Health ◽

10.15566/cjgh.v5i3.238 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 47-53

Author(s):

Robert Bradley Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Religious Beliefs ◽

Social Role ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Disaster Risk Management ◽

Systematic Theology ◽

Pacific Island ◽

Good Sense ◽

Island Communities

Pacific Island communities are among the most disaster prone on earth. The churches in these communities have a pervasive social role and a wide geographic footprint, and it therefore makes good sense to engage them in better preparing their communities for disasters. That said, there are a variety of pre-existing religious beliefs about disasters, some of which are antithetical to proactive disaster risk management. Important theological research is being undertaken to map existing beliefs. This research will then help inform an indigenous and systematic theology of disaster risk management. The goal is to reduce death and destruction from foreseeable events, giving the research a special relevancy.

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