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Dr Sarah Beaven

Contact

Department: School of Earth and Environment

Email: sarah.beaven@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3695992

Office: Beatrice Tinsley Rm 208

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
Supervision

Fields of Research

  • Disaster Risk and Resilience
  • Adaptive and Collaborative Governance
  • Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Disaster Risk Communication
  • Post-disaster research ethics

Researcher Summary

The active management of tensions endemic to cross-sector collaborations in disaster risk management, response and recovery contexts, with a special interest in boundary organizations and collaborative governance. The potential for collaborative governance arrangements to improve the research quality and relevance of national research funding programs, and - in response and recovery environments - to enhance cross-sector coordination and decrease ethical risks to impacted communities. Community resilience to natural hazards.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Environmental Studies: Environmental Studies
  • Science & Technology: Science & Technology
  • Resilience: Social: People and Community

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Guy S., Gaw S., Beaven S. and Pearson AJ. (2022) Dose assessment for polonium-210 (Po-210) in New Zealand shellfish. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2021.106788.
  • Weir AM., Mead S., Bebbington MS., Wilson TM., Beaven S., Gordon T. and Campbell-Smart C. (2022) A modular framework for the development of multi-hazard, multi-phase volcanic eruption scenario suites. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 427 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107557.
  • Davies A., Zorn C., Wilson TM., Wotherspoon L., Beaven S., Davies T. and Matthew H. (2021) Infrastructure Failure Propagations and Recovery Strategies from an Alpine Fault Earthquake Scenario: Establishing Feedback Loops Between Integrated Modelling and Participatory Processes for Disaster Impact Reduction. Bulletin of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering 54(2): 82-96.
  • Guy S., Beaven S., Gaw S. and Pearson AJ. (2021) Shellfish consumption and recreational gathering practices in Northland, New Zealand. Regional Studies in Marine Science 47 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101967.
  • Barton TM., Beaven SJ., Cradock-Henry NA. and Wilson TM. (2020) Knowledge sharing in interdisciplinary disaster risk management initiatives: Cocreation insights and experience from New Zealand. Ecology and Society 25(4): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-11928-250425.
  • Spector S., Cradock-Henry NA., Beaven S. and Orchiston C. (2019) Characterising rural resilience in Aotearoa-New Zealand: a systematic review. Regional Environmental Change 19(2): 543-557. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1418-3.
  • Fearnley CJ. and Beaven S. (2018) Volcano alert level systems: managing the challenges of effective volcanic crisis communication. Bulletin of Volcanology 80(5) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00445-018-1219-z.
  • Beaven S., Wilson T., Johnston L., Johnston D. and Smith R. (2017) Role of Boundary Organization after a Disaster: New Zealand's Natural Hazards Research Platform and the 2010-2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence. Natural Hazards Review 18(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000202.
  • Woods RJ., McBride SK., Wotherspoon L., Beaven SJ., Potter SH., Johnston DM., Wilson T., Brunsdon D., Grace ES. and Brackley H. (2017) Science to Emergency Management Response: Kaikoura Earthquakes 2016. Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 50(2): 329-337.
  • Beaven S., Wilson T., Johnston L., Johnston D. and Smith R. (2016) Research engagement after disasters: Research coordination before, during, and after the 2011-2012 canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand. Earthquake Spectra 32(2): 713-735. http://dx.doi.org/10.1193/082714EQS134M.
  • Davies TR., Beaven S., Conradson D., Densmore A., Gaillard JC., Johnston D., Milledge D., Oven K., Petley D. and Rigg J. (2015) Towards disaster resilience: A scenario-based approach to co-producing and integrating hazard and risk knowledge. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 13: 242-247. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.05.009.
  • Morgan J., Begg A., Beaven S., Schluter P., Jamieson K., Johal S., Johnston D. and Sparrow M. (2015) Monitoring wellbeing during recovery from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes: The CERA wellbeing survey. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 14: 96-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.01.012.
  • Beaven S., Johnston L., Wilson TM., Brogt E., Blythe J., Reugg C., Letham M., Gomez C., Seville E. and Ogier J. (2014) Risk and Resilience Factors Reported by a New Zealand Tertiary Student Population After the 4th September 2010 Darfield Earthquake. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters 32(2): 375-404.
  • Doyle EEH., Khan S., Adler C., Alaniz RC., Athayde S., Lin KHE., Saunders W., Schenk T., Sosa-Rodriguez F. and Sword-Daniels V. (2014) Reporting on the Seminar - Risk interpretation and action (RIA): Decision making under conditions of uncertainty. Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies 18(1): 27-38.
Chapters
  • Beaven S., Rovins JE. and Beaven S. (2018) Chapter 30. Looking back to move forward: institutional capacity required by global governance changes. In Beer T; Li J; Alverson KD (Ed.), Global change and future earth : the geoscience perspective: 398-409. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316761489.
  • Rovins JE. and Beaven S. (2018) Looking Back to Move Forward: Institutional Capacity Required by Global Governance Changes. Global Change and Future Earth: The Geoscience Perspective: 398-409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781316761489.039.
  • Beaven S., Wilson T., Johnston L., Johnston D. and Smith R. (2015) Learning From Earthquake Disasters. In Beer M; Kougioumtzoglou IA; Patelli E; Au ISK (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering: 1295-1311. New York: Springer. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_353.

Student Supervision

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  • PhD - Barton TM: Exploring decision support tools for assessing and evaluating risk and resilience initiatives across rural value chains (2019)
  • PhD - Minimo LG: Spatiotemporal analysis of interactions between decentralisation, development and cascading disasters in the Philipines (2018)
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