RMLA Road Show : Navigating the Evolving Natural Hazards Landscape

Tonkin & Taylor’s Marje Russ and GHD’s Maurice Hoban will lead a discussion on how the regulatory landscape around natural hazards is changing nationally and internationally. Marje and Maurice will cover key concepts, assessment approaches and language associated with natural hazards, particularly the use of effects based decision making vs risk based.  

The session will provide an in-depth discussion on:

• The legislative context, including Civil Defence and Emergency Management Act, RMA, Local Government Act,  Building Act, EQC. 
• Hazard and risk concepts
• What this might mean for you and your clients
• Key information sources 

Location	Date	Time
HAMILTON	MARCH 23	07:00 – 09:00
TAURNANGA	MARCH 23	17:00 – 19:00
TARANAKI	MARCH 30	17:00 – 19:00
WELLINGTON	APRIL   05	17:00 – 19:00
OTAGO	APRIL   20	17:00 – 19:00
QUEENSTOWN	APRIL   21	16:00 – 18:00
NELSON	APRIL   28	17:00 – 19:00
HAWKES BAY	MAY     05	17:00 – 19:00

Go to www.rmla.org.nz/events to register

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS

Marje Russ

Director, Tonkin + Taylor Ltd

Marje has worked in natural hazards management and planning since the mid-1980s.  Initially focussing on flood management in the Waikato, New South Wales and Southeast England, she has experience developing catchment management plans and extensive community engagement on mitigation and management options.  She has extensive experience with risk management standards and tools with over 25 years working with private and public-sector organisations using risk-based approaches to establish formal management systems and improvement programmes.  Most recently, Marje has been engaged in natural hazards topics in the Proposed Auckland Unitary Plan process.

 

Maurice Hoban

Principal, Environment and Planning at GHD

Maurice specialises in risk management and engagement and has worked with some of the world’s largest private and public sector organisations and more recently communities and Councils in New Zealand to manage environmental risk. His experience and passion is in working alongside communities and organisations to help them become more resilient.  He achieves this by bringing together planning, science and engineering in a way that communities and leaders can engage with.  Maurice is the Group Lead for Planning and Environment at GHD and is a member of the New Zealand GHD management team.