The National Hazardscape Report, published by Officials’ Committee for Domestic and External Security Coordination, and launched at the Civil Defence Emergency Management Minister’s Forum on 20 September 2007, is the first New Zealand Government report to provide a thorough description of the New Zealand hazardscape.

The first edition of the National Hazardscape Report provides a contemporary summary of the physical nature, distribution, frequency of occurrence and impacts and consequences of 17 key hazards affecting New Zealand. The hazards described in the National Hazardscape Report include geological, meteorological, biological, technological and social hazards. The National Hazardscape Report also provides information on how the hazards are currently managed across reduction, readiness, response and recovery.

Four key factors influencing New Zealand’s current landscape are also discussed in the National Hazardscape Report. These are climate variability and climate change, human modification of the natural environment, demographic trends, and reliance on technology.

The National Hazardscape Report is a non-statutory document aimed at informing policy makers, hazard managers and their advisors in carrying out hazard and risk management at the national and local level.

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