Photograph by Jocelyn Kinghorn 1987

Images, UC QuakeStudies

Ducks still swimming in the Avon River, where most of the surrounding land is badly damaged.

Photograph by Paul Corliss 1987

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a damaged house. The photograph is captioned by Paul Corliss, "River Road, Avonside".

Gap Filler project 22 time lapse, photograph 1987

Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph from a time-lapse series documenting the contruction of Gap Filler's Pallet Pavilion. The photograph was taken from the top of the Christchurch Casino.

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Images, UC QuakeStudies

A photograph of a foundation stone at Christ's College. The stone reads, "This stone was laid by His Excellency the Most Reverend Sir Paul Reeves G.C.M.G. G.C.V.O. Governor General of New Zealand October 13th 1987".

Resilience – A case study: Somerfield School, Christchurch

Research papers, Lincoln University

The topic of ‘resilience’ thinking seems of late to have superseded that of ‘sustainability’ thinking. Sustainability means simply that which sustains and lasts but has taken on many different subtle nuances over the last 20 years since it came into common parlance with the Bruntland Report of 1987, which sought to clarify the definition. However, resilience ‘speak’ has become hot property now, especially highlighted since Christchurch experienced a natural disaster in the form of several large earthquakes from Sep 2010 until most recently in December 2011. Many people comment on how resilient people have been, how resilient the city has been, so it seems timely to investigate what resilience actually means and importantly, resilient to what and of what? (Lorenz, 2010). This essay will look at the concept of systems and resilience, definitions and theories will be explored generally and then these concepts will be more closely defined within the context of a particular system, that of Somerfield School located in the western suburbs of Christchurch.