New Zealand: What the future holds for Christchurch

"Effective and robust risk-based land use planning which was well informed by science and was undertaken as part of normal, day to day urban planning, would have been the most socially and economically efficient risk reduction strategy for making Christchurch city more resilient to natural hazards," told University of Canterbury lecturer Dr Tom Wilson a an international conference on urban sustainability and resilience at University College London, reports Voxy. Dr Wilson was talking about the challenges and successes of the recovery after the earthquake in Christchurch.