Akuhata Bailey-Winiata
Pattle Delamore Partners | Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūtetawha
Dr Akuhata Bailey-Winiata (Tūhourangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tūtetawha) is a climate adaptation and natural hazards scientist at Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd (PDP) with experience in working with hapū and iwi Māori around Aotearoa New Zealand to understand their climate and natural hazard risk, supporting community adaptation, and has recently completed his PhD where he developed an adaptation framework that supports adaptation and resilience aspirations of hapū and iwi Māori.
Resilience in action: Insights from Māori-led adaptation to natural hazards and climate change
In Aotearoa New Zealand, our responses to climate-driven hazards are dominated by disaster response and recovery rather than risk reduction. However, recent events have motivated communities, hapū/iwi, agencies and more to do their own adaptation planning. Nobody else is going to do it for us, we need to plan and implement from individual up to national scales. Our strength as a nation is in our communities, it is in our hapū/ iwi, in our whakapapa and in how we all work together.
This presentation shares insights from historical Māori relocations due to natural hazards and introduces a new multiscalar research initiative under the National Resilience and Hazards Platform. Through wānanga and Te Tiriti-centric collaboration, we are co-creating solutions that reflect place-based knowledge and climate change realities. We invite participants to consider how these approaches can inform climate adaptation and resilience planning in partnership with tangata whenua.