Abstract
Aotearoa New Zealand’s vulnerable low-lying coastal communities face imminent threat from coastal hazards and the consequences of climate change. There is an urgent need to understand how community resilience, adopted in international and national policy, can enhance societal resilience across the emergency management cycle of risk reduction, preparedness, response and recovery. This report presents findings from a study of a coastal community in southern New Zealand that is exposed to a range of climate-related hazards. This paper brings together academic perspectives on community resilience theory and presents an adapted framework that considers the contextual factors (social, political, environmental, economic and physical domains) that are recognised as complex and interacting drivers of resilience.