People in the Project: Dr Lucia Danzi
Role in Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke
Lucia works at the Centre for Sustainability as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Ngā Ngaru Wakapuke RA1 'The Future' and RA2 'The Forecast'. She has an interdisciplinary background in disaster risk and resilience, with a focus on tourism. Her research aims at enhancing societal resilience to multi-hazard risks and disasters and helping communities and the tourism sector to be better prepared for future disaster events.
Lucia is originally from Verona, Italy. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, volunteering for nature conservation, and the occasional wine tasting.
Research background
Fully funded by the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges Programme, Lucia completed her PhD at the University of Otago in November 2024. Using mixed methods social network analysis, her thesis explored how tourism and emergency management collaborate in disaster readiness and response, resulting in a framework to help stakeholders build and maintain effective networks.
Current research
In her current role, Lucia focuses on the use of Artificial Intelligence to identify knowledge gaps in the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of multi-hazard events. She is also developing a tourism business dynamics model to understand how businesses adapt their behaviour and resilience strategies over time in response to earthquake sequences.
Publications
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., Higham, J., & Baggio, R. (2024). Tourism Disaster Management: A Social Network Analysis of Nature-based Destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Travel Research, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875241268623
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., Higham, J., Baggio, R., (2024). Formation and Development of Tourism Disaster Management Networks: From Preparedness to Response. Manuscript submitted for publication (Under review) to the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., Higham (2024). Effectiveness and Sustainability of Collaborative Networks in Tourism Disaster Management. Manuscript submitted for publication (Under review) to the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Danzi, L., Figini, P. (2022). The Tourism Economics of Marginal and Mature Mountains. The Case of the Regional Park of Corno alle Scale (Apennines), Italy. Current Issues in Tourism, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2038092
Figini, P., Danzi, L. (2020). Towards the regeneration of the Apennines in the Emilia and Tuscany regions: Tourism, sustainability and territorial development in the Regional Park of Corno alle Scale. 10.13140/RG.2.2.30401.99686