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Research into increasing New Zealand's resilience to natural hazards is co-ordinated through the Natural Hazards Research Platform, which includes Crown research institutes, universities, government departments, private consulting firms and territorial authorities. This is the cover of the 2010 Natural hazards report. It shows damage to the Homebush homestead, owned by the Deans family, following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake.  

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NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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Simon Nathan, Research institutions – Government research organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/44985/natural-hazards (accessed 30 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 10 April 2014, updated 7 May 2026.