Staff profiles
Edith BrethertonNatural Hazards Planner
Biography
Edith is a Natural Hazards Planning in the Planning and Policy Team, based remotely on the West Coast of the South Island. She specialises in the interpretation and implementation of natural hazard and risk models into planning frameworks. Research interests include mitigation of risk through land use planning, cascading, compounding and cumulative risk, residual risk, and the interaction between disaster response and everyday resilience. Edith is the project manager for the It’s Our Fault science to practice programme and the strategic science investment fund “improved risk governance”. She works with many councils across Aotearoa New Zealand in their plan change processes including implementation of operative provisions. Edith is a full member of the New Zealand Planning Institute, and an accredited RMA hearings commissioner.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Business
- Graduate Diploma, Arts
- BSc, Earth Science and Physical Geography
- MSc, Physical Geography
Publications
Selection of major publications
- Its Our Fault: 20192023 Science to Practice workshops report DOI: 10.21420/5TBP-5N27. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2024/42 16 p.
- Planning and early warning systems for cascading natural hazard risk DOI: 10.21420/06CJ-W078. GNS Science report 2024/28 22 p.
- Management of sensitive or vulnerable activities in relation to natural hazards in planning documents DOI: 10.21420/CZTJ-8B15. Lower Hutt, N.Z.: GNS Science. GNS Science report 2023/30 74 p.
- Managing active fault surface rupture risk through land use planning : barriers and opportunities, Policy Quarterly 19(4): p. 56-64. DOI: 10.26686/pq.v19i4.8568. p. 56-64
- Riskscape case studies : informing land-use planning through natural hazard and climate-change risk modelling DOI: 10.21420/DDFC-KA58. GNS Science report 2023/18 61 p.