International Centre for Excellence in Community Resilience

The centre conducts research into and provides advice about community resilience to disasters in the Wellington region.

The International Centre of Excellence in Community Resilience (ICoE:CR) is based in Wellington and is sponsored by the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme. The Joint Centre for Disaster Research at Massey University, GNS Science and the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office are coordinating this region-wide initiative to answer the question ‘How does a community make itself resilient to future disasters?’.

Our vision

The vision of the ICoE:CR is to be:

An internationally recognised centre of excellence to research and enable community resilience to disasters. Actively collaborating with individuals, organisations, and communities in the Wellington region.

Through partnerships at the local, national and international level, leading research will be applied to the practice of the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office’s Community Resilience Strategy.

Our objectives

  • Provide an evidence base for the Community Resilience Strategy.
  • Act as a vehicle to share international good practice in community resilience.
  • Promote the Wellington region as a living laboratory for research and learning.

All members of the ICoE:CR become recognised partners in a United Nations initiative to enhance the regional and research foci of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme. The members will contribute to the enhancement of New Zealand’s community resilience while also becoming part of a network of national and international research and practice clusters.

If you would like to find out more about the ICoE:CR and associated organisations, please see our information sheet.

International Centre for Excellence in Community Resilience information sheet

Become a member

If you would like to become a member, or for further enquiries, please contact us at jcdr.enquiry@massey.ac.nz

Other international centres of excellence

For information about the other established international centres of excellence please visit the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk website.

Publications

The following are publications by and with the ICoE.

Kwok, A.H., Doyle, E.E.H., Becker, J., Johnston, D., Paton, D. (2016) What is 'social resilience'? Perspectives of disaster researchers, emergency manager practitioners, and policymakers in New Zealand. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 19, 197-211.
Read this publication online

Orchiston, C.; Hudson-Doyle, E.; Johnston, D.M.; Becker, J.S.; Crowley, K.; Beatson, A.; Lambie, E.; Neely, D.P.; Pepperell, B. (2016). Citizen Science in Disaster Risk Management Workshop: summary report, GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 90. 35 p.
Citizen Science in Disaster Risk Management Workshop (1,719 KB)

Doyle, E.H., Becker, J.S., Neely, P. D., Johnston, D.M., & Pepperell, B. (2015). Knowledge transfer between communities, practitioners, and researchers: A case study for community resilience in Wellington, New Zealand. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies: Practice Update, 19(2), 55-66.
Read a practice update summary of our 2014 workshop

Dallenbach, K., Dalgliesh Waugh, C., Smith, K. (2015). Community Response Planning: A qualitative study of two Community Response Planning Processes undertaken by the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office. Victoria University of Wellington.
Read the Community Research Planning final collaborative report to WREMO (880 KB)