by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 12, 2020 | Akaroa, COVID-19, Economy, New Zealand, Sustainability, Tourism
Originally published by TVNZ Like many towns in New Zealand, Canterbury’s Akaroa relies on the tourist dollar – a dollar which is hard to find with the borders currently closed to international tourists.Akaroa optimistic of best winter yet as Kiwis realise...
by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 12, 2020 | Akaroa, COVID-19, Economy, New Zealand, Tourism
Originally published in RNZ Businesses in Akaroa are worried they will find it hard to survive the abrupt end to the cruise ship season due to Covid-19 restrictions. The Golden Princess is now on its way to Melbourne after docking in Akaroa. Photo: RNZ / Anan Zaki The...
by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, COVID-19, Development, Economy, Environment, News, Research, Resilience, Sustainability
By Kurt Cobb, originally published by Resource Insights It’s hard to ignore the protests on the streets of the world’s cities of late. Those protests are coming from a populace who knows that the system they live under long ago stopped benefiting them. While the focus...
by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, COVID-19, Development, Economy, Environment, News, Planning, Policy, Research, Resilience, Sustainability
By Robert P. Brooks, originally published by Resilience.org What better time to shift our thinking and actions away from a hyperconsumptive, inequality-widening, environmentally-detrimental era than the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Having been shaken to our...
by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, COVID-19, News, Research, Resilience, Sustainability
Pandemics are unique among disasters in that they attack the whole world at the same time – and in this manner, the new Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has shown itself to be flawless. As it marches around the globe, many of the countries with escalating outbreaks have looked...
by Sustainability and Resilience Institute New Zealand | Jun 8, 2020 | Awareness, Climate Change, COVID-19, Environment, Research, Sustainability, Tourism
In light of the recent Global Health Concerns, the SS 2020 which was scheduled for June 1-5 2020 had to be postponed until further notice. This video has a compilation of messages from prominent speakers and partners of SS2020. The Sustainable Summits Conferences are...
