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Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of the installation, 'Cardencity', on the corner of Manchester and Welles Streets. The installation is a sign post with all signs pointing to parking spaces.

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Damage to a house in Richmond. A brick chimney has visibly twisted and there are gaps between the bricks. The photographer comments, "Damaged chimney. We'll have to get this taken down tidily, but our roofer friends are a bit busy... (It was taken down on the morning of Day 2, just as well)".

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Latimer Square. The buildings may not have withstood the earthquakes well, but the large trees of Latimer Square seem to have done rather better. Despite being inside the red zone for a number of months, Latimer Square looks as green and well-kept as ever".

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

The lived reality of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes and its implications for the Waimakariri District, a small but rapidly growing district (third tier of government in New Zealand) north of Christchurch, can illustrate how community well-being, community resilience, and community capitals interrelate in practice generating paradoxical results out of what can otherwise be conceived as a textbook ‘best practice’ case of earthquake recovery. The Waimakariri District Council’s integrated community based recovery framework designed and implemented post-earthquakes in the District was built upon strong political, social, and moral capital elements such as: inter-institutional integration and communication, participation, local knowledge, and social justice. This approach enabled very positive community outputs such as artistic community interventions of the urban environment and communal food forests amongst others. Yet, interests responding to broader economic and political processes (continuous central government interventions, insurance and reinsurance processes, changing socio-cultural patterns) produced a significant loss of community capitals (E.g.: social fragmentation, participation exhaustion, economic leakage, etc.) which simultaneously, despite local Council and community efforts, hindered community well-being in the long term. The story of the Waimakariri District helps understand how resilience governance operates in practice where multi-scalar, non-linear, paradoxical, dynamic, and uncertain outcomes appear to be the norm that underpins the construction of equitable, transformative, and sustainable pathways towards the future.

Research papers, University of Canterbury Library

Welcome to the first Recover newsletter from the Marine Ecology Research Group (MERG) at the University of Canterbury. Recover is designed to keep you updated on our MBIE funded earthquake recovery project called RECOVER (Reef Ecology, Coastal Values & Ecosystem Recovery). This first issue provides a summary of some of the big changes we’ve seen. In the next issue we’ll be profiling some of the current research as well as ways you can get involved!