Journal article
Research engagement after disasters: Research coordination before, during, and after the 2011–2012 Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand
Earthquake Spectra, Vol.32(2), pp.713-735
2016
Abstract
This article argues that active coordination of research engagement after disasters has the potential to maximize research opportunities, improve research quality, increase end-user engagement, and manage escalating research activity to mitigate the ethical risks posed to impacted populations. We focus on the coordination of research activity after the 22 February 2011 Mw6.2 Christchurch earthquake by the then newly formed national research consortium, the Natural Hazards Research Platform, which included a social science research moratorium during the declared state of national emergency. Decisions defining this organization's functional and structural parameters are analyzed to identify lessons concerning the need for systematic approaches to the management of post-disaster research, in collaboration with the response effort. Other lessons include the importance of involving an existing, broadly based research consortium, ensuring that this consortium's coordination role is fully integrated into emergency management structures, and ensuring that all aspects of decision-making processes are transparent and easily accessed.
Details
- Title
- Research engagement after disasters: Research coordination before, during, and after the 2011–2012 Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand
- Authors/Creators
- S. Beaven (Author/Creator)T. Wilson (Author/Creator)L. Johnston (Author/Creator)D. Johnston (Author/Creator)R. Smith (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Earthquake Spectra, Vol.32(2), pp.713-735
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Identifiers
- 991005542181307891
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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