4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters

By Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato
Bill Fry, Honorary Research Professor, Department of Geology, University of Otago
Julia Becker, Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
Liam Wotherspoon, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Melanie Mark-Shadbolt, Environmental Sociologist, Indigenous Knowledge

After a series of extreme weather events over the past month, NZ has been reminded that disasters aren’t just acts of nature.

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