The Natural Hazards and Resilience Platform Te Pae Tūroa is a multi-organisational, collaborative research programme with funding for seven years (2024-2031) from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
Our mission: To enhance New Zealand’s resilience to natural hazards.
Our vision:
- New Zealand’s natural hazard resilience system is continuously improving through innovative science and technology development
- New Zealanders understand their dynamic natural environment and know how to anticipate, adapt, and thrive in the face of hazard risks.
The Platform
The Platform builds on the successful legacy of the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges National Science Challenge Kia Manawaroa – Ngā Ākina o Te Ao Tūroa (2014-2024), and seeks to create a step change in economic, social and environmental resilience.
Through maintaining and extending resilience science capability, harnessing existing partnerships and building new ones, we are seeking to expand our knowledge of natural hazards and develop innovative tools and strategies to build our resilience.
The Platform’s research is driven across three core science themes and two cross-cutting research programmes, determined through a process of engagement with users and researchers in late 2024 and early 2025.
Our Programmes & Themes
Living with Risk
The Living with Risk theme places people at the centre of risk reduction and resilience.
Better Resilience Decisions
The Better Resilience Decisions theme aims to help organisations, businesses and agencies make better decisions about natural hazard risks in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Next Generation Risk Assesment
Supporting decisions made by the institutions, agencies and businesses who manage risk with tailored information, tools and guidance.
Vision Mātauranga
We will further Māori aspirations for disaster resilience science, supporting iwi, hapū and whānau to better understand and manage the impacts of natural hazards.
Data and Enabling Technologies
Disaster risk reduction will benefit from greater uptake of new data applications and emerging technologies.
Activities across the Platform
In support of our science themes and programmes, four enabling functions will drive impact and coordination activities across the Platform:
Post-Event Research, Insights and Learning (PERIL)
Coordinating the capture of data and insights following damaging natural hazard events, and synthesising and applying lessons to build future resilience.
Hazard and Resilience Research Alliances:
Connecting across the hazard and resilience research system to enable cooperation in support of the shared mission.
Knowledge Mobilisation:
Coordinating and supporting science communication, engagement and impact-focused activities across the Platform.