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The red and yellow sticker dilemma – how do we balance safety with the desire to return home after a disaster?

  • Written by: Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland
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Just over a month after the Auckland flood, and three weeks on from Cyclone Gabrielle hitting the North Island, the scale of the disasters and the rebuild is clear – as is a sense of being in limbo for those worst affected.

At Muriwai on Auckland’s west coast, locals were reportedly left frustrated by a lack of information af...

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