RiskScape user Manual

Download the RiskScape User Manual here (60 pages - 3.4 MB) to read more about the RiskScape model including:

RiskScape Publications

Journal Articles

Reese, S., Bradley, B.A., Bind, J., Smart, G., Power, W., Sturman, J. (2011). Empirical building fragilities from observed damage in the 2009 South Pacific tsunami. Earth Science Reviews. Doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.01.009

Schmidt, J., Matcham, I., Reese, S., King, A., Bell, R., Smart, G., Cousins, J., Smith, W., Heron, D. (2011). Quantitative multi-risk analysis for natural hazards: a framework for multi-risk modelling. Natural Hazards. Doi:10.1007/s11069-011-9721-z

Reese, S., Cousins, W.J., Power, W.L., Palmer, N.G., Tejakusuma, I.G., Nugrahadi S. (2007). Tsunami vulnerability of buildings and people in South Java. Field observations after the July 2006 Java Tsunami. Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Science. 7. 573–589.
http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/7/573/2007/nhess-7-573-2007.pdf

Smith, W.D., G.A Vignaux. (2006). Decision tools for earthquake risk management, including Net Present Value and Expected Utility. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering. 39. 170-175.

Turner, R., Reese, S., Revell, M., Moore, S.,  Reid, S. (2012). Some recent extreme wind events in New Zealand. Winds and Structures. 50. 163-176

Smart, G.M., McKerchar A.I. (2010). “More Flood Disasters in New Zealand”. J. Hydrology (NZ) 49 (2): 69-78

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Bell, R.G., King, A. (2006). Regional RiskScape: A multi-hazard loss modelling tool. In Ammann, W.J ., Haig, J., Huovinen, C., Stocker, M. (Eds.). Proceedings of the International Disaster Reduction Conference 2006, Davos, Switzerland, 28 August – 1 September 2006.

Bell, R.G., Reese, S., King, A. (2007). Regional RiskScape: A multi-hazard loss modelling tool. Proceedings, Coastal Communities Natural Disasters, April 17-18, 2007, Auckland, New Zealand.

Cousins, W.J., Spence, R., So, E. (2008). Estimated Casualties in New Zealand Earthquakes. In Proceedings, Australian Earthquake Engineering Conference AEES 2008, November 21-23, 2008, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Cousins, W.J., Power, W.L., Palmer, N.G., Reese, S., Tejakusuma, I.G., Nugrahadi S. (2007). Damage and casulties in the South Java Tsunami of 17th July 2006. In Proceeding, Performance by Design: can we predict it? New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering Annual Conference (NZSEE), 30 March - 1 April 2007, Palmerston North, New Zealand. http://db.nzsee.org.nz/2007/Contents.htm

Giovinazzi, S., King, A. (2009) Estimating seismic impacts on lifelines: an international review for RiskScape. Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering Annual Conference (NZSEE), April 3 -5 2009. http://www.ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/3667/1/12623491_NZSEE%202009%20-%20Giovinazzi%20%26%20King.pdf 

Giovinazzi, S., King, A. (2009). Toward the Seismic Performance Assessment of Lifelines within the Regional RiskScape Model in New Zealand. Bologna, Italy: ANIDIS 2009 - XIII Conference,  June 28 - July 2 2009. http://www.ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/3664/1/12623495_Giovinazzi%20%26%20King%20-%20ANIDIS2009%20-%20MEMORIA.pdf 

Kaye, G., Cole, J.W., King, A., Sabel, C. (2006). Volcanic Risk Assessment in the RiskCape Program - Review of Existing Inventory, Fragility Models and Test Application in the Rotorua District, New Zealand. Abstracts, Geological Society of New Zealand Annual Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand, December 2006.

King, A., Bell, R. (2006). Riskscape New Zealand - A Multi-hazard Loss Modelling Tool. In, Remembering Napier 1931 - Building 75 years of Earthquake Engineering in New Zealand. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Conference, 10-12 March 2006, Napier New Zealand. http://www.nzsee.org.nz/db/2006/Paper30.pdf 

King, A., Bell, R. (2007). Riskscape: An innovative multi-hazard loss modelling tool. In Stewart C., Finnis, K. (editors). From Warnings to Response and Recovery: Proceedings of the 1st Australasian Hazards Management Conference. 2-3 August 2007, Brisbane, Australia.

King, A.B., Cousins, W.J., Heron, D. Matcham, I., Pringle, R. (2008). Regional RiskScape: A multi-hazard loss modelling tool. Proceedings,  Building Resilience: achieving effective post-disaster reconstruction, 4th International I-REC Conference, 30 April to 2 May, Christchurch, New Zealand. http://www.resorgs.org.nz/irec2008/Papers/King.pdf 

King, A.B., Cousins, W.J., Power, W., Blong, R., Destegul, U.Z., Weir, B., Smith, W. (2008). Combined tsunami and earthquake loss for Wellington, New Zealand. Proceedings, 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 12-17, 2008, Beijing, China. Paper No. 15-0032.

King, A., Cousins, J., Bell, R. (2005). Riskscape New Zealand: A multi-hazard loss modelling tool. Paper presented at International Conference on Earthquake Engineering “Earthquake Engineering in the 21st Century – IZIIS 40 EE-21C”, 27 August to 1 September 2005, Skopje/Ohrid, Macedonia, .

Moore, S., Turner, R., Revell, M., Reese, S., Webster, S. (2012). Wind and Wind Hazard Releated Research at NIWA. 15th Australiasian Wind Engineering Society Workshop, Sydney, Australia, February 2012.

Paulik, R., Lane, E., Sturman, J. (2012). Tsunami impact modelling using RiskScape: Omaha Beach, Auckland. New Zealand Coastal Society Conference: Making waves, 20 years and beyond 14-16 November, 2012, Auckland, New Zealand.

Power, W.L., Reese, S., Cousins, W.J., Palmer, N.G., Tejakusuma, I.G., Nugrahadi S. (2007). Without warning: Lessons from the 2006 Indonesian tsunami and implications for New Zealand. 6th Annual Integrate Emergency Management Conference, 19-20 February, Wellington, New Zealand.

Reese, S., King, A., Bell, R.G., Schmidt, J. (2007). Regional RiskScape: A multi-hazard loss modelling tool. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 74-80. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-47. http://www.mssanz.org.au/MODSIM07/papers/26_s32/RegionalRiskSpace_s32_Reese_.pdf

Reese, S., Smart, G. (2007). Flood modeling and natural hazard mitigation - RiskScape progress report and case study. 7th Annual Integrate Emergency Management Conference, 26-27 February, Wellington, New Zealand.

Reese, S., van Zijll Jong, S.L., Smart, G., King, A., Smith, W., Bradley, B.A. (2009). Multi-hazard loss modeling: Riskscape New Zealand. In Stewart C. (editor). From Warnings to Effective Response and Recovery: Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian Hazards Management Workshop Series. 5-7 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 25.

Schmidt, J., Turek, G., Matcham, I., Reese, S., Bell, R., King, A. (2007). RiskScape - an innovative tool for multi-hazard risk modelling. Geophysical Research Abstracts. Vol 9. 05782. SRef ID: 1607-7962/gra/EGU2007-A-05782. http://meetings.copernicus.org/www.cosis.net/abstracts/EGU2007/05782/EGU2007-J-05782.pdf 

Smart, G.M. (2011).  Pre-empting flood avulsion and 2D modelling. River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics: RCEM2011, eds. Shao, Wang & Wang, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing.

Smart, G., Paulik, R. (2012) Prioritising Perils: A Case Study. 6th Australasian Natural Hazards Management Conference 2012, 21-22 August 2012, Christchurch, New Zealand. 

Smart, G., Paulik, R., King, A. (2012). RiskScape: A multi-hazard impact and risk modelling tool. New Zealand Climate Change Centre Conference: Sea Level - Meeting the Challenge. 10-11 May 2012, Wellington, New Zealand.

Turek, G., Wright, K. Paulik, R., Smart, G., King, A., Matcham, I. (2012). RiskScape: a quantitative natural hazard loss modelling tool. 4th Digital Earth Summit 2012, 2-4 September 2012, Wellington, New Zealand.

Turner, R., Reese, S. (2009). Wind induced damages to buildings in New Zealand. The Seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering, 8-12 November 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.

Uma, S.R., Bradley, B.A. (2010). Displacement-based fragility functions for New Zealand buildings subject to ground motion hazard. 3rd Asian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1-3 December 2011, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/5107/1/12628539_Uma_DispBasedFragilityNZbuildings_ACEE_10.pdf  

Uma, S.R., Ryu, H., Luco, N., Liel, A.B., Raghunandan, M. (2011). Comparison of main-shock and aftershock fragility curves developed for New Zealand and US buildings. Proceedings of the Nineth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Building an Earthquake Resilient Society, April 14-16, 2011, Auckland, New Zealand. Paper No. 227. http://db.nzsee.org.nz/2011/227.pdf

Turner, R., Reese, S., Revell, M, Popinet, S., King, A. (2011). Wind hazard and engineering related research at NIWA, New Zealand. Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Wind Engineering. July 10-15 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

van Zijll Jong, S.L., Reese, S. (2009). Increasing RiskScapes value to users: Horizon scanning (2009-2016) connects past lessons to future deliverables. In Stewart C. (editor). From Warnings to Effective Response and Recovery: Proceedings of the 3rd Australasian Hazards Management Workshop Series. 5-7 August 2009, Melbourne, Australia. GNS Science Miscellaneous Series 25.

Wright, K. C., Johnston, D. M., Cousins,  W. J., McBride, S. K. 2012: Estimating post-earthquake welfare and sheltering needs following a Wellington earthquake. New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE) Annual Conference "Implementing Lessons Learnt". April 13-15, Christchurch, New Zealand. http://www.nzsee.org.nz/db/2012/Paper044.pdf 

Wright, K., Reese, S., Matcham, I., Daly, M. (2011). To building or not to build; that is the question...using the RiskScape model to support land use planning for natural hazards. Proceedings, "Winds of Change" New Zealand Planning Institue Conference, March 30-31, 2011, Wellington New Zealand. http://www.planning.org.nz/Folder?Action=View%20File&Folder_id=217&File=WRIGHT_REESE_MATCHAM_DALY_2011.pdf 

Book Chapters

Reese, S., Smart, G. (2008). High resolution inundation modelling as part of a multi-hazard loss modelling tool. In: Samuels, P.; Huntington, S.; Allsop, W.; Harrop, J. (eds). Flood Risk Management. Research and Practice. Proceedings of the European Conference on Flood Risk Management Research into Practice (FloodRisk 2008), pp. 1663-1668. CRC Press, Oxford, UK.

Other Publications

Bell, R., Cowan, H., Dalziell, E., Evans, N., O’Leary, M., Rush, B., Yule, L. (2005). Survey of impacts on the Andaman Coast, southern Thailand following the great Sumatra–Andaman earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004. Invited paper, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 38(3): 123–148.  
http://www.nzsee.org.nz/Techactivity/recontrips.shtml

Kaye, G.D. (2008). Volcanic hazard risk assessment for the RiskScape program, with test application in Rotorua, New Zealand, and Mammoth Lakes, USA. Unpublished PhD Thesis submitted to the University of Canterbury. http://www.ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/1950

King, A.B., Bell, R.G. (Programme Managers). (2009). RiskScape Project: 2004 - 2008. NIWA Science Report 2009/75. 172p.

Lawrance, J., Reisinger, A., Tegg, S., Quade, D. (2011). Vulnerability and adaptation to increased flood risk with climate change - Hutt Valley summary. NZCCRI 2011 Report 02. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sgees/research-centres/documents/vulnerability-and-adaptation-to-increased-flood-risk-with-climate-change-hutt-valley-summary.pdf 

Ministry for the Environment. (2010). Tools for estimating the effects of climate change on flood flow: A guidance manual for local government in New Zealand. Woods R, Mullan AB, Smart G, Rouse H, Hollis M, McKerchar A, Ibbitt R, Dean S, Collins D (NIWA).

Reese, S., Bell, R.G., King, A.B. (2007). RiskScape—A new tool for comparing risk from natural hazards. Water & Atmosphere, 15 (3): 24-25.

Reese, S., Reid, S. (2006). Dealing to wind hazards in New Zealand. NIWA Water & Atmosphere, 14 (4): 10-11.

Thurston, S. (2007). Observations and evaluation of building damage caused by the July 2007 Taranaki Tornados. SC119/2. Project Number: TP 1362 FT01.  http://www.branz.co.nz/cms_show_download.php?id=c459398e8c3221aa6153080d10f57deee19ee283.

Wilson, T.M., Kaye, G.D. (2007). Agricultural fragility estimates for volcanic ash fall hazards. GNS Science Report. 51.