Shari Gallop
Pattle Delamore Partners | Ngāti Maru ki Hauraki, Te Rarawa
Dr Shari Gallop (Ngāti Maru ki Hauraki, Te Rarawa) is a coastal scientist at Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd (PDP) with extensive international and national experience in coastal hazards and processes. She works across research, practice and advocacy, supporting hapū/iwi in adaptation planning, and working with government, research, and industry clients to bring a holistic lens to projects that considers Māori values and processes.
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.