PŪTAHI RANGAHAU/AUT RESEARCH CENTRE

Our publications

From disaster preparedness and emergency management to climate resilience and community-led recovery, these publications from AUT Applied Disaster and Risk Research Centre (ADARR) showcase research that addresses real-world disaster and risk challenges.

2026

  • Goswami, S., Sharan, A., Joseph, J., & Raju, E. (2026). Othering and access to housing: a unique navigation of placemaking practiced by thirunangais in urban spaces of Chennai. Identities, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2026.2698216
  • Sharan, A. (2026). Re-thinking gender beyond the binary in disasters: Othering and hybrid identities of hijras in India. In Reimagining Disasters (pp. 83-99). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032632797-7Hyperlink to article – open in NEW tab
  • Sharan, A., & Gaillard, J. C. (2025). Re-gendering the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences of gender diverse groups from India and the Philippines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 16(1), 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00612-3
  • Lansakara, DC, Le Dé L., Petterson M. and D. Wickramasinghe (2026) Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in urban Sri Lanka: the socio-political dynamics of wetland restoration. Environmental Hazards, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2026.2687497
  • Anshuka, A., Sanderson, D, Le Dé L., Neef, A., Geetika, G and van Ogtrop F.F. (2026) A Holistic Approach to Early Warning Systems Using an Agent-Based Model. Int J Disaster Risk Sci (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-026-00729-7
  • Miller, T., Le Dé L., and Hore, K. (2026) The Adaptive System: Networks, Relationships, and Boundaries in Disaster and Emergency Management. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management34: e70134. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.70134
  • Mistry, P., Le Dé L. and Miller, T. (2026) Coordinating response during disaster: The 2023 cyclone Gabrielle in the Hawke’s Bay Region as case study. Australian Journal of Emergency Management. http://www.doi.org/10.47389/41.1.36

2025

  • D’Souza, E., Hunting, A., Sosa, R., Ware, C., Le Dé, L., & Gibbons, A. (2025). Designing for agency and voice: A review of creative and experiential out-of-school programs. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 5. https://www.doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2025.100110
  • Le Dé, L., & Mead, J.  (2025). Policies and actions to support surfers in drowning prevention: Insight from Aotearoa New Zealand. Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-08-2024-0226
  • Miller, T., Le Dé, L., & Hore, K. (2025). Constructivist networked grounded theory: A methodology for complex disaster and emergency management systems. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251378368
  • Le Dé, L., & Mead, J. (2025). The adaptive shift: Embracing complexity in disaster and emergency management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 119, 105323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105323
  • Miller, T., Le Dé, L., & Hore, K. (2025). Constructivist networked grounded theory: A methodology for complex disaster and emergency management systems. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 24. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251378368
  • Sharan, A. & Gaillard, J.C. (2025). Re-Gendering the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction: Experiences of gender diverse groups from India and the Philippines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00612-3
  • Sharan, A., Baumann, L., Sapalo, N., Gaillard, J.C., Dwyer, E. & Salamanca, A. (2025). What’s “Holding Back Change”? Opportunities and Challenges for the ‘Participation’ and ‘Inclusion’ of People with Diverse SOGIESC in Disaster Risk Reduction. Climate and development. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2025.2451973

2024

  • Suwandhahannadi, W.K., Le Dé, L., Wickramasinghe, D., & Dahanayaka, D.D.G.L. (2024). Community participation for assessing and managing ecosystem services of coastal lagoons: A case of the Rekawa Lagoon in Sri Lanka. Ocean and Coastal Management.
  • Suwandhahannadi, W.K., Wickramasinghe, D., Dahanayaka, D.D.G.L., & Le Dé, L. (2024). Blue carbon storage in a tropical coastal estuary: Insights for conservation priorities. Science of The Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167733
  • Le Dé, L., Ronoh, S., Kyu, E.M.T., & Rive, B. (2024). How Can Practitioners Support Citizen Volunteers in Disaster Risk Reduction? Insight from “Good and Ready” in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 15, 374–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-024-00563-9
  • Le Dé, L. (2024). Bridging gaps between disaster risk reduction and drowning prevention. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 106, 104445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104445 Hyperlink to article – open in NEW tab
  • Le Dé, L., Gaillard, J.C., Baumann, L., & Cadag, J.R. (2024). Mesurer la vulnérabilité : De la pertinence de la participation. In S. Rufat & P. Metzger (Eds.), Vulnérabilitié, territoire, population : De la critique aux politiques publiques (pp. 205-224). ISTE editions. https://www.doi.org/10.51926/ISTE.9106.ch10
  • Raju, E., Goswami, S., Fernando, N., Rashid, M., Akter, E., Bhotia, N. D., Sharan, A., Bhatt, M., & Gaillard, J.C. (2024). A Conversation towards Post-colonial Futures for Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia. Disaster Prevention and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-10-2023-0265
  • Sharan, A. (2024). Disasters and the “Other” Gender: The Case of the Hijras in Odisha, India. Southasiadisasters.net, 211, (pp. 15-16). https://aidmi.org/postcolonial-futures-for-disaster-risk-reduction-in-south-asia/
  • Viennaminovich Gampell, A., Gaillard, J.C., Parsons, M., Le Dé, L., & Hinchliffe, G. (2024). Participatory Minecraft mapping: Fostering students participation in disaster awareness. Entertainment Computing, 48, 100605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2023.100605

2023

  • Lansakara, D.C., Le Dé, L., Petterson, M., & Wickramasinghe, D. (2023). The potential for community-driven ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in South Asia: A literature review. Disaster Prevention and Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-06-2023-0128
  • Le Dé, L., Fraser, A., & St Martin, M. (2023). Homelessness and COVID-19 in New Zealand: Challenges, emergency responses, and implications for disaster risk reduction. Habitat International, 139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102885
  • Le Dé, L., Baumann, L., Moatty, A., Le Masson, V., Kikano, F., Fayazi, M., Fernandez, M., Tomassi, I., &  Cadag, J. (2023). Alternatives for sustained disaster risk reduction: A re-assessment. Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies, 15(1), a1487. https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba. v15i1.1487
  • Mead, J., Le Dé, L., & Moylan, M. (2023). The unexplored role of surfers in drowning prevention: Aotearoa, New Zealand as a case study. Environmental Hazards, 23(2), 150-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2023.2239223

2022

  • Alburo-Cañete, K.Z., Campbell, N., Lakhina, S.J., Le Dé, L., &Rodríguez Alarcón, M.N. (2022). Post-disaster research: Inspirational early career scholars transcript for the disasters: Deconstructed livestream on 15 September 2021. Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-11-2022-0231
  • Bubb, J. & Le Dé, L. (2024). Participation as a requirement: Towards more inclusion or further exclusion? The community disaster and climate change committees in Vanuatu as a case study. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 76, 102992. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102992
  • Hore, K., Gaillard, J.C., Davies, T., & Kearns, R. (2022). Participatory research in practice: Understandings of power and embodied methodologies. New Zealand Geographer, 77(3), 221-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/nzg.12308
  • Le Dé, L., & Gaillard, J.C. (2022). Whose views matter? For a pluralistic approach to understanding disasters? In M. Aronsson-Storrier & R. Dahlberg (Eds.), Defining disaster (pp. 123-139). Monograph Book. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839100307.00018
  • Su, Y., & Le Dé, L. (2022). Uneven recovery: A case study of factors affecting remittance-receiving in Tacloban, Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan. Migration and Development, 11(3), 1176-1195. https://doi.org/10.1080/21632324.2021.1898157
  • Baumann, L., Sharan, A., & Gaillard, J. C. (2022). Queering “Gender and Disaster” for Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389407.013.412
  • Mohil, D., Sharan, A., & Ganapathi, H. (2022). The Key Role of Wetlands to Build Socio-Ecological Resilience against Drought: Case Study from Bhachau, Kachchh, Gujarat. In S. Eslamian & F. Eslamian (Eds). Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Disaster and Social Aspects (pp. 177-198). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99063-3

2021

  • Le Dé, L., Gaillard, J.C., Gampell, A., Loodin, N., & Hinchliffe, G. (2021). Fostering children’s participation in disaster risk reduction through play: A case study of LEGO and Minecraft. International Journal of Disaster Risk Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-021-00375-1
  • Le Dé, L., Wairama, K., Sath, M., & Petera, A. (2021). Measuring resilience: By whom and for whom? A case study of people-centred resilience indicators in New Zealand. Disaster Prevention Management. https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2021-0128
  • Zhang, C., Le Dé, L., & Charania, N. (2021). Transnational migration and disaster risk reduction: Insights from Chinese migrants living in Auckland, New Zealand. Asia Pacific Viewpoint. https://doi.org/10.1111/apv.12309
  • Gampell, A., Gaillard, J.C., Parson, M., & Le Dé, L. (2021). Exploring the use of the Quake Safe House video game to foster disaster and disaster risk reduction awareness in museum visitors. International journal of disaster risk reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101934

2020

  • Le Dé, L., Defossez, S., & Leone, F. (2020). Disaster resilience of traditional societies: The 2015 tropical cyclone Pam in Vanuatu. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
  • Su, Y., & Le Dé, L. (2020). Whose views matter in post-disaster recovery? A case study of “build back better” in Tacloban city after typhoon Haiyan. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101786
  • Le Dé, L., Gaillard, J.C., Gampell, A., Loodin, N., & Cadag, J. (2020). Participatory mapping 2.0: New ways for children’s participation in disaster risk reduction. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 35(2), 34-42.
  • Gampell, A., Gaillard, J.C., Parson, M., & Le Dé, L. (2020). ‘Serious’ disaster video games: An innovative approach to teaching and learning about disaster and disaster risk reduction. Journal of Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221341.2020.1795225
  • Gampell, A., Gaillard, J.C., Parsons, M., & Le Dé, L. (2020). Fostering student participation in disaster risk reduction through disaster video games. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 35(2), 43-50.
  • Hore, K., Gaillard, J.C., Davies, T., & Kearns, R. (2020). People’s participation in disaster-risk reduction: Recentering power. Natural Hazards Review, 21(2), 04020009. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000353