Infrastructure underpins growth by providing the supporting networks demanded by a growing economy. It is a catalyst for growth because it creates new economic opportunities. Infrastructure assets are typically costly and can take many years to plan, commission, build and bring into service. Projecting the future demand for infrastructure is critical to ensuring that the...

This report analyses publicly-released information and interviews people in the visitor and emergency management sectors effected by the Christchurch earthquake. It makes recommendations to enhance the visitor sector’s disaster preparedness capability and to better integrate the particular challenges of the sector into broader emergency management structures. Ultimately, the earthquakes demonstrated that when a natural disaster...

This publication presents information on greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector in New Zealand for the calendar years 1990– 2011.