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Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR)

Massey University

Wellington
New Zealand

Outline

An international centre for research and teaching in disaster risk and emergency management. The Joint Centre for Disaster Research (JCDR) provides a state-of-the-art, high-quality, graduate teaching and contemporary research programme to Aotearoa New Zealand and people worldwide. By doing so, we develop community disaster resilience by leading and delivering risk identification, communications, and reduction and readiness programmes in communities and organisations across the nation and beyond.

The JCDR covers a broad range of topics across emergency management that tackle real-world situations and solutions.

  • Disaster risk and science communication
  • Education, outreach and social networking tool
  • Māori and Indigenous risk reduction and disaster management
  • Psychosocial support and community resilience
  • Multi-hazard warning systems
  • Disaster response and recovery management and leadership
  • People-centred technologies and systems for disaster management

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