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Thanks for sharing these documents with us, Chris. Little has been written about university resilience. I've been thinking for a while about getting one of my graduate classes to assess the resilience of our own university but it's difficult to attempt this 'cold', without some case studies and guidance available. If anyone else has relevant material on this subject, please let me know. best wishes John ________________________________________ From: Disaster Resilience [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Chris Hawker [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 31 August 2012 03:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Sharing experiences Dear all, over the last two years the people of the Garden City of Christchurch NZ have acquired experiences that in almost all cases, we would not have chosen had we been given an option. Of course we don't have that luxury when a disaster occurs so for those fortunate enough to survive, we must learn and adapt. Following the seismic activity which began in Canterbury on September 4th, 2010, (which has not stopped yet) the University of Canterbury community has had to learn and adapt from both an institutional and personal perspective, and in the same way uiniversities readily share academic knowledge, we also wish to do this from an operational perspective. During 2010, two colleagues and I wrote "Shaken but not Stirred, A university's resilience in the face of adversity", which is a report about our September - December experiences. This is written from both our personal experiences as well as from an institutional view. The devestating earthquakes which occured on February 22nd, 2011, changed our view considerably and although it has taken longer, we have now completed a subsequent report, "Resilience tested - A year and a half of 10,000 aftershocks". This is more academic in nature and is intended as a sharing of lessons as much as the straight transfer of knowledge. 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