A Māori love story: Community-led disaster management in response to the Ōtautahi (Christchurch) earthquakes as a framework for action

Synergising Public Health Concepts with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: A Conceptual Glossary

“…The first of these projects [25] was a three year study conducted with Māori tribal and community stakeholders who facilitated the recruitment of research participants. Semi-structured, face-to-face and group interviews were conducted in 2012 and 2013 with 70 Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu employees, as well as Ngāi Tahu kaumātua (elders), rūnanga (sub-tribe) members and Māori community volunteers who were involved in the Ngāi Tahu-led response to the Canterbury earthquakes.…”

“…Further to consensus amongst the authors, narrative extracts from participants’ talk that illustrate the relevance of public health concepts to the Sendai Framework and Disaster Risk Reduction were selected and applied as exemplars to reinforce arguments presented. Fuller discussions of the research methodologies and overviews of the research findings have been published elsewhere [25,28,29,31]. The article should not be considered to be a definitive analysis of public and private sector responses to the Canterbury earthquake sequence.…”

An overview of the impacts of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes

“…Marae (meeting houses) opened throughout the South and North Islands to accommodate Maori refugees and provide places of support [28]. Tradespeople and nurses were sent to Canterbury, as well as Maori wardens.…”

“…A recovery assistance centre was also established to field phone calls for organisations such as Housing New Zealand, the Red Cross, and Work and Income. The response and recovery of the Maori communities in Canterbury emphasised the resilience of Maori cultural values and skills [28].…”

Building children and young people’s resilience: Lessons from psychology

“…In New Zealand students, farmers and community groups delivered food and water, shovelled silt from roads and gardens and provided social support and even toys after a major earthquake in Christchurch in 2011 (Mutch 2013, Kenney andPhibbs 2014). Gordon (2004) describes the pattern he has observed.…”