A Discussion on Future Planning, Climate Change & Resilience

NZPI SPECIAL VIRTUAL EVENT

In association with EQC

Join NZPI in association with EQC for this virtual event featuring a fantastic line up of international and local thought leaders in the areas of future planning, climate change and resilience.

The event will feature speakers Laurie Johnson (USA), Dr Gavin Smith (USA), Dy Currie (AUS), Professor Barbara Norman (AUS), Bryce Davies (NZ) and Judge Hassan (NZ).

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Speakers:

Professor Barbara Jean Norman

Professor Barbara Norman is Chair and Professor of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. Professor Norman has a combined professional and academic background as a former national president of the Planning Institute of Australia and a current leader in urban and regional research. Recent international research includes Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions: planning within planetary boundaries (Routledge, 2018); Are autonomous cities our urban future? Comment in Nature Communications (Nature Communications, 2018) and Apocalypse Now: Australian Bushfires and the future of Urban Settlements (Nature Urban Sustainability). Professor Norman’s next book is Urban Planning for Climate Change (Routledge, 2022).

Laurie A. Johnson PhD FAICP
Chief Catastrophe Response and Resiliency Officer, California Earthquake Authority
Principal, Laurie Johnson Consulting | Research

Laurie Johnson is an internationally-recognized urban planner specializing in disaster recovery and catastrophe risk management. Over 30 years, she has combined her unique blend of professional practice and research in earth science, urban planning and public policy to help communities address the complex urban challenges posed by natural hazards and disasters. Much of her post-disaster recovery work is captured in her recent book, After Great Disasters: An In-Depth Analysis of How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery (2017). In June 2020, she assumed a new role of Chief Catastrophe Response and Resiliency Officer for the California Earthquake Authority and the newly-established California Wildfire Fund. She is the 2019-2020 President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), on the Board of Directors of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative and the advisory boards of the Global Earthquake Model and the WIFIRE Commons Convergence project, and a 2018 inductee into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners. She holds a Doctor of Informatics degree from Kyoto University, Japan, and a Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Science in Geophysics, both from Texas A&M University.

Dy Currie

Dy is Brisbane City Council’s Chief Planner and the Brisbane 2032 Host City Office Lead. Dy is a highly experienced planning executive with national and international experience in planning and economic development. Dy is the immediate President of the Commonwealth Association of Planners representing more than 40 000 planners around the world, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Cities of Tomorrow and Co-Chair of UN Habitat’s Stakeholder Advisory Group. Dy was recognised in the Australia Day Honours list in 2020 and appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2020 for significant service to town planning and strategic urban development. A past National President of the Planning Institute of Australia, Dy is a Life Fellow of PIA, an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK) and also a Fellow of the Urban Development Institute of Australia. Dy is also a Board member for Place Leaders Asia Pacific.

Bryce Davies, Executive Manager Corporate Relations, IAG New Zealand

Bryce is responsible for IAGs presence and standing within New Zealand through its relationships with governments and its social responsibility. Bryce has a strong and long-standing focus climate change adaption and natural hazard risk reduction. He has been part of numerous government and business working groups focused on these matters, including the Government Climate Change Adaptation Working Group. Bryce also speaks regularly on these topics, with a particular focus on their connections to insurance and keeping New Zealand well insured.

Judge Hassan

Judge Hassan was appointed to the Environment Court in 2013. Following the Canterbury earthquakes’ sequence, he served as Deputy Chair of the Independent Hearings Panel for the Christchurch Replacement District Plan.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Hassan was a partner in Chapman Tripp specialising in resource management and environmental law. He represented government agencies, industry, local government and community groups before councils, the Environment Court, Boards of Inquiry, the High Court and Supreme Court in relation to major infrastructure works, plan changes and consent and appeal hearings.

Judge Hassan also has significant law reform and other public sector experience. He was an in-house solicitor for the Ministry of Works and Development (1985-88) and with the Ministry for the Environment (1988-91). He was a policy analyst and legal adviser at MfE during the Resource Management Law Reform process. In that capacity, he assisted the Randerson Review Group and briefed Parliamentary Counsel on the Bill, the Supplementary Order Paper and ultimately the enactment of the Resource Management Act (RMA). He was appointed by the Local Government and Environment Select Committee to audit and advise on the drafting of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2009. He is the founding co-author of Brookers Resource Management.

Professor Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at North Carolina State University. His research focuses on hazard mitigation, disaster recovery, and climate change adaptation and the integration of research and practice through deep community engagement. Educational efforts include the development of a graduate certificate in disaster resilient policy, engineering, and design. Dr. Smith has written the text Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: A Review of the United States Disaster Assistance Framework (Island Press, 2011) and served as the co-editor of the text Adapting to Climate Chance: Lessons from Natural Hazards Planning (Springer, 2014) as well as writing numerous peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and practice-oriented reports. Smith was a co-PI on a six-year study assessing the quality of state and local hazard mitigation plans. Smith’s current research includes assessing the state of disaster resilient design education at U.S. Universities, the analysis of a national survey assessing the role of states in building the capacity of local governments to implement hazard mitigation grants, and a comparative assessment of hazard-prone housing acquisition programs in the U.S. and New Zealand.

Smith has also served as a policy advisor to several nations, states, and local governments addressing planning for post-disaster recovery, flood-hazard risk reduction, and climate change adaptation and has testified before congress, state legislatures, and international committees. Dr. Smith has advised four governors including Governor Hunt following hurricanes Fran and Floyd and Governor Barbour following Hurricane Katrina. During Hurricanes Fran and Floyd, Smith led teams responsible for the acquisition and elevation of more than 5,000 and 500 homes respectively. More recently, Smith led a team of eight faculty, eighteen graduate students, and two practitioners assist six hard-hit low-capacity communities following Hurricane Matthew. This effort, which lasted more than two years, focused on addressing local needs not addressed by FEMA or the State of North Carolina. Examples include identifying multiple uses for land acquired through the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program, conducting land suitability analyses to identify locations suitable for the construction of replacement housing outside the floodplain but within the boundaries of towns participating in the buyout, assessing possible flood-proofing techniques for historic downtowns, creating housing plans for replacement housing, and developing disaster recovery plans. Smith currently serves on a National Academies of Sciences committee focused on assessing managed retreat strategies in Gulf Coast states and serves as an author of the 5^th U.S. National Climate Assessment, focusing on the southeastern United States.

Dr Richard Smith
Director
National Resilience Challenge

Richard has a hybrid background in research facilitation, disaster risk reduction policy and practice, and natural hazards research. Most recently he was Research Strategy and Investment Manager with the New Zealand Earthquake Commission (EQC), with responsibilities for EQC's National Research Capability and Science-to-Practice programmes. Before joining EQC, Richard held various roles in the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM), supporting policy and capability development and provision of science advice. Richard has a PhD in Geological Sciences from the University of Canterbury, and prior to taking up a position with MCDEM was a Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences at the University of Waikato.

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