Edith Bretherton

Edith Bretherton is a Natural Hazards Planner at the New Zealand Institute for Earth Science (formerly GNS Science). She specializes in the interpretation and implementation of natural hazard and risk models into planning frameworks. Research interests include mitigating risk through land use planning, as well as cascading, compounding, and cumulative risk, residual risk, and the interaction between disaster response and everyday resilience. Bretherton is the project manager for the It’s Our Fault science to practice programme and the strategic science investment fund “improved risk governance”. She is part of a technical reference group for natural hazards for Auckland Council and works with other councils across Aotearoa New Zealand in their plan change processes, including implementation of operative provisions. Bretherton is a full member of the New Zealand Planning Institute and an accredited hearings commissioner.