ERI Research Reports
Publication
Economics of Resilient Infrastructure (ERI) was a 4-year research project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s 2012 Investment Round. The project ran from 2012 to 2016. Their reports, compiled here, are freely available to the public.
Overview
The ERI research programme aimed to develop an integrated spatial decision support system to enable users to value improvements in infrastructure resilience, and to assess the economic implications of infrastructure recovery decisions.
In particular, the project sought to explore:
- Temporal and spatial changes in GDP, employment, income, and capital markets from different types and scales (size, duration) of infrastructure failures.
- Causal mechanisms through time (interdependencies, cascading effects, feedbacks and lags) that explain the temporal and spatial changes.
- Major changes in post-event business behaviour that influence the economic impacts.
- Effects of pre-event mitigation and post-event adaptation options (e.g. policy, choices, infrastructure provider actions, business behaviours).
Since the completion of the original ERI research programme, development of the MERIT suite of tools has continued through other research and applied projects. These projects have extended our knowledge and understanding of MERIT and will contribute to the continuing development of future additional modules.
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