Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 5 August
12:00 - 13:00
Decision-making for resilience requires innovation. We need to tackle ingrained challenges and ‘path dependencies’ where previous decisions may limit our options to address future problems. To make progress on issues such as planned retreat and climate adaptation we need a greater understanding of how research can support policy and decision-making for systematic change and transformation.
Resilience to Nature’s Challenge’s ‘De-risking Resilience’ programme included a cluster of research projects focused on understanding real-world decision-making difficulties, while also testing strategies to ‘de-risk’ putting resilience science into practice and outcomes.
In this webinar the research team will share findings from two key streams of research: understanding policy making for systemic change and transformation, and trialing safe innovation spaces for resilience decision-making at the science-policy interface. Topics will include crisis policy-making during the covid-19 recovery, the cross-sector politics of climate adaptation, the role of policy experimentation in the evolution of managed retreats, and insights from trialing safe innovative spaces for decision-making.
Webinar Speakers
Iain White
University of Waikato
Iain is Professor of Environmental Planning and Assistant Vice Chancellor Impact at the University of Waikato, and a visiting academic at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia and the University of Manchester, UK. He is also New Zealand’s National Contact Point for the EU Horizon Europe research programme for ‘Climate, Energy, and Mobility’.
Raven Cretney
University of Waikato & Lincoln University
Dr Raven Cretney is a social scientist based at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, University of Waikato and Te Whare Wānaka o Aoraki, Lincoln University. Her research focuses on collective action and policy change relating to environmental and post-disaster issues.
Sarah Beaven
University of Canterbury
Dr Sarah Beaven is a Senior Lecturer in Disaster Risk and Resilience at the University of Canterbury, and co-director of the Disaster Risk and Resilience programme in the School of Earth and Environment. Her research is concerned with disaster risk governance and decision-making over time, and the theory and practice of managing the effects of institutional misalignments on interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations.
Christina Hanna
University of Waikato
Dr Christina Hanna is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Planning at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, The University of Waikato. Her research navigates the complexities of planned retreats, adaptation planning, spatial reimagination, and community engagement.