Centre Events

Short Courses

In 2009 the Natural Hazards Centre will be running fivetwo day courses (with optional field trips) focussed on understanding natural hazards, and on ways that individuals, communities, organizations and government can plan to avoid and manage the consequences of disasters.

These courses are aimed at anyone with an interest, or role, in assessing, managing or communicating the risks associated with natural hazard events including:

  • Planners
  • Emergency managers
  • Educators
  • Engineers
  • Utility and asset managers
  • Local, regional and central government policy makers

Download a handy fold-out year planner with the 2009 course information and dates. Alternatively a copy can be requested from Julia Becker.

Upcoming courses include:

  • Understanding and managing earthquake hazards, Wellington, 14–15 May, 2009.
  • Planning for a volcano crisis, Auckland, 23-25 September, 2009
  • Managing Weather and Flood Hazards, Wellington, October, 2008.
  • Understanding and Managing Landslide Hazards, Wellington, 4-6 November, 2008.
  • Managing Coastal Hazards, Hamilton, March 2010 

Further information on each of these courses will be available on this webpage shortly or from either Julia Becker or Doug Ramsay.

Australasian Hazards Management Conference

The Australasian Hazards Management Conference is run annually, alternating between locations in New Zealand and Australia.

The conference provides a forum to discuss the integration of hazard information into effective risk management, including:

  • Applying hazard information to best practice planning
  • Developing effective warning systems
  • Improved response and recovery from events
  • Creating resilient communities through integrating science into practice

Our target audience is: Emergency managers, planners, risk assessors, asset and utility managers, natural hazards researchers and scientists.

The next conference will consist of a workshop series only and will be held in Melbourne, Australia in August 2009. A full programme and registration is now vailable via the Melbourne workshop 2009 page.