In the wake of another summer of weather disasters, Iain White, Bill Fry, Julia Becker, and Liam Wotherspoon, in an article for The Conversation, highlight four lessons New Zealand should take away from the experience.
As one of the most natural-disaster-exposed countries in the world, with the Climate Change Risk Assessment indicating a likely uptick in climate-driven events, New Zealand needs to learn from its past to secure its future.
The four lessons highlighted in the article include: hazards as natural, disasters as social; growth can reduce risk, or lock it in; how framing extreme events matters; and bridging the knowledge-action gap.
Read on to learn more about each of these lessons.
Source: https://theconversation.com/4-lessons-nz-should-take-from-another-summer-of-weather-disasters-275437
