Planning for Disaster: How do Planners Navigate Earthquake Hazards and Risk in Low Seismic Hazard Zones?

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Planning for Disaster: How do Planners Navigate Earthquake Hazards and Risk in Low Seismic Hazard Zones?

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New Zealand’s South Island has variable seismic risk as a result of both plate boundary and local active faults. To reflect this variable risk, the Building Act separates New Zealand into zones of ‘low’, ‘medium’, and ‘high’ seismic risk. However, relative to other countries, a low risk designation still involves some exposure to seismic risk. Dunedin is one such example, where active faults close to the city have the potential to produce earthquakes of Mw 7 or greater, and generate a range o...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2023

Creator

Church, Caelan

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/15975

Related subjects

land use planning / earthquakes / heritage / hazards / resilience / Dunedin

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