Submission on Building Resilience to Hazards Long-term Insights Briefing | Te Whakatipu i te Tū Pakari Tauroa o Aotearoa ki ngā Pūmate

27 August 2025

OraTaiao supports the intent of this long-term insights briefing (‘the briefing’). However, we believe it can be meaningfully improved and wish to make the following recommendations:

  1. Addition of Te Tiriti as a foundation of resilience building.
  2. Greater emphasis on the intersection between health and hazards throughout. 
  3. Improved articulation of equity and greater emphasis on the necessity of equity in resilience building. 
  4. Improved articulation of ‘Climate change and environmental stress’ in Section 2: Forces that shape risk and resilience.
  5. Additions to Section 2: Forces that shape risk and resilience.
  6. Accuracy on the current status of the Resource Management Act and its relationship to hazards planning.

Read our full submission here.

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