Monitoring wellbeing during recovery from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes: The CERA wellbeing survey

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 96-103

  Morgan, Jane ^a,b   Begg, Annabel ^b,c   Beaven, Sarah ^b,d,f   Schluter, Philip ^d,e   Jamieson, Kath ^b,g   Johal, Sarb ⁱ   Johnston, David ^f,h   Sparrow, Mary ^b,i  

^a Formally Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority   (New Zealand)

^b CERA Wellbeing Survey ProjectTeam   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^g CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL   (New Zealand)

^h MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

ⁱ Waimakariri District Council (WDC)   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Psycho social disaster impact monitoring; Recovery monitoring; Science policy collaboration; Wellbeing after earthquake disasters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949113765     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.01.012     Document Type: Article

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