Hazards and Disaster Research Centers in Oceania

This page includes a listing of university-based hazards and disaster research centers, organized alphabetically and by UN subregion in Oceania.

Australia and New Zealand

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability	University of Newcastle	Australia
Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI)	Western Sydney University	Australia	2016
Darwin Centre for Bushfire Research	Charles Darwin University	Australia
Centre for Disaster Studies	James Cook University	Australia	1979
Sustainability Research Centre	University of the Sunshine Coast	Australia	2007
Torrens Resilience Institute	Flinders University	Australia
Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety	University of Melbourne	Australia	2014
Centre for Disaster Resilience and Recovery (CDRR)	Deakin University	Australia
Disaster Resilience Initiative (MUDRI)	Monash University	Australia	2011
Natural Hazards Research Australia	Natural Hazards Research Australia	Australia	2021
Climate Change Adaptation Lab	La Trobe University	Australia	2023
Disaster Resilience Research Group	University of Tasmania	Australia
Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions	The Australian National University	Australia
Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research (UACEER)	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	2007
Centre for Land Environment and People	Lincoln University	New Zealand
Centre for Sustainability	University of Otago, Wellington	New Zealand	2000
Earthquake Hazard Centre	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
Joint Centre for Disaster Research	Massey University	New Zealand
DEVORA	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	2008
QuakeCoRE: New Zealand Centre for Earthquake Resilience	University of Canterbury	New Zealand
The Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	2020

Melanesia

Center/Institute	University	Country	Year Established
Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD)	University of the South Pacific	Fiji	1999
Centre for Disaster Reduction	University of Papua New Guinea	Papua New Guinea

If you have questions about this project, please contact Lori Peek at lori.peek@colorado.edu. If you would like your academic research center listed on this page, or if you’d like to update or add information to a center currently on the map, please contact Emma Hines at emmanuelle.hines@colorado.edu.