Episode description

"Some people are aware of the hazards, but unaware of the consequences."

Are you interested in disaster resilience planning? What do you think about 15-minute cities as a tool for disaster resilience? How can we create safe, informed and resilient cities?

Interview with Keygan Huckleberry, Emergency Management Officer in Christchurch. We talk about his vision for the future of cities, disaster resilience, urban planning with evacuation in mind, safe cities, agreement on urban challenges, and many more.

Keygan Huckleberry is a local Planning Coordinator for Civil Defence Emergency Management in Christchurch. His day to day role is predominantly focused on developing and writing plans and strategies to address the vast array of hazards that Christchurch and Banks Peninsula face. In an activated Emergency Operations Centre Keygan will either be the Response Manager, managing the response and the response staff, ensuring each team understands their role, response objectives, and actions required under the Action Plan, and providing leadership and guidance to other functions in the response; or he will lead the planning team in creating Action Plans to address novel problems and support managing the consequences that citizens of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula are faced with.

Find out more about Keygan through these links:

• Keygan Huckleberry on LinkedIn
• getready.gov.nz website with preparation templates

Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

• No.213R - Defence in depth against human extinction
• No.214 - Interview with Anders Sandberg about consecutive disasters
• No.260 - Interview with Haydn Read about risk and resilience
• No.280 - Interview with Hudson Worsley about sustainability vs resilience
• No.281R - Misfortunes never come singly. A holistic approach to urban resilience and sustainability challenges

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I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.

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