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.
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Adaptation Children and Youth Disaster and Development Disaster and Public Health Drowning Prevention Environment Gender Migrants Participation Recovery Technology VulnerabilitySharan, 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.