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Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

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February 11, 2026

4 lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters

Iain White, University of Waikato; Bill Fry, University of Otago; Julia Becker, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University; Liam Wotherspoon, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Melanie Mark-Shadbolt, Indigenous Knowledge

After a series of extreme weather events over the past month, NZ has been reminded that disasters aren’t just acts of nature.

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