Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform
The Government is investing in a Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform. The purpose of the platform is to enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards so we can better prepare, respond, and recover from natural hazard events.
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The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited (GNS) is the host of the platform.
MBIE funding
The Government is investing $70 million (excluding GST) over 7 years in this platform starting 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2031.
About the science
This platform will support science capability important for New Zealand’s resilience and emergency management. It will provide science across the 4 Rs (reduction, readiness and response, and recovery), to underpin New Zealand’s Disaster Resilience Strategy. This strategy outlines New Zealand’s civil defence emergency goals to build a more resilient future.
The platform will have a strong focus on working with science users.
The platform builds on a substantial history of collaborative and multi-disciplinary natural hazards resilience science carried out as part of Resilience to Nature’s Challenges (2014–2024) and the Natural Hazards Research Platform (2009–2019).
GNS Science is currently developing a Platform Plan with key research users, and the natural hazards research community for the Natural Hazards and Resilience platform. This will be assessed in April 2025.
Read the public statement
Annual updates
Recipients of SSIF funding report yearly on the progress of their work programme and this will be published here.
More information
Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform(external link) — GNS Science - Te Pῡ Ao