Christchurch Ruptures
Christchurch Ruptures

Author: Katie Pickles

Publisher: Bridget Williams Books

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 0908321309

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The devastating earthquake that hit Christchurch in 2011 did more than rupture the surface of the city, argues historian Katie Pickles. It created a definitive endpoint to a history shaped by omission, by mythmaking, and by ideological storytelling. In this multi-layered BWB Text, Pickles uncovers what was lost that February day, drawing out the different threads of Christchurch’s colonial history and demonstrating why we should not attempt to knit them back together. This is an incisive analysis of the way a city’s character is interlinked with its geo-spatial appearance: when the latter changes, so too must the former.

Business and Post-disaster Management
Business and Post-disaster Management

Author: C. Michael Hall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1317276345

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and on a range of stakeholders, including employees and consumers. Research on how communities and businesses respond to disasters can inform policy and mitigate the cost and impacts of future disasters. This book discusses how places recover following a disaster and the vital roles that business and other organisations play. This volume gives a detailed understanding of business, organisational and consumer responses to the Christchurch earthquake sequence of 2010-2011, which caused 185 deaths, the loss of over 70 per cent of buildings in the city’s CBD, major infrastructure damage, and severely affected the city’s image. Despite the devastation, the businesses, organisations and people of Christchurch are now undergoing significant recovery. The book sheds significant new light not only on business and organisation response to disaster but on how business and urban systems may be made more resilient.

Undefeated
Undefeated

Author: Rhodri Davies

Publisher: Y Lolfa

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1847719694

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This is the untold story of the most successful British and Irish Lions tour in history. The 1974 party are the only Lions ever to emerge undefeated.

Journal
Journal

Author: New Zealand. Dept. of Labour

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13:

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A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch
A Decade of Disaster Experiences in Ōtautahi Christchurch

Author: Shinya Uekusa

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-13

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9811668639

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This book critically surveys a decade of disasters in Ōtautahi Christchurch. It brings together a diverse range of authors, disciplinary approaches and topics, to reckon with the events that commenced with the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence. Each contribution tackles its subject matter through the frame of Critical Disaster Studies (CDS). The events and the subsequent recovery provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn from a series of concatenating urban disasters in order to prepare us for our future on an urban planet facing unprecedented environmental pressures. The book focuses on the production of vulnerability, the human dimensions of disaster, the Indigenous response to disasters and the practical lessons that can be drawn from them.

Once in a Lifetime
Once in a Lifetime

Author: Kevin McCloud

Publisher: Freerange Press

Published: 2014-08-31

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 0473289407

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New Zealand has to rebuild the majority of its second-largest city after a devastating series of earthquakes – a unique challenge for a developed country in the twenty-first century. The 2010-2011 earthquakes fundamentally disrupted the conventions by which the people of Christchurch lived. The exhausting and exhilarating mix of distress, uncertainty, creativity, opportunities, divergent opinions and competing priorities generates an inevitable question: how do we know if the right decisions are being made? Once in Lifetime: City-building after Disaster in Christchurch offers the first substantial critique of the Government’s recovery plan, presents alternative approaches to city-building andarchives a vital and extraordinary time. It features photo and written essays from journalists, economists, designers, academics, politicians, artists, publicans and more. Once in a Lifetime presents a range of national and international perspectives on city-building and post-disaster urban recovery.