Postdoctoral Fellow
Tel +64 3 479 9243
Email lucia.danzi@otago.ac.nz
Lucia works at the Centre for Sustainability Research 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.
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.
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.
Lucia is originally from Verona, Italy. Outside of research, she enjoys hiking, volunteering for nature conservation, and the occasional wine tasting.
Thesis: Inter-organisational Collaborative Networks in Tourism Disaster Management
Supervisors:
- Research Associate Professor Caroline Orchiston (Centre for Sustainability)
- Distinguished Professor James Higham (Tourism)
Publications
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., Higham, J., & Baggio, R. (2025). Formation and development of tourism disaster management networks: From preparedness to response. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2025.2575089 Journal - Research Article
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., & Higham, J. (2025). Effectiveness and sustainability of collaborative networks in tourism disaster management. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 129, 105775. doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105775 Journal - Research Article
Danzi, L. (2025). Inter-organisational collaborative networks in tourism disaster management [Research summary]. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. [Technical/Scientific Report]. Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Danzi, L. (2025). Enhancing disaster resilience through collaborative networks in tourism and emergency management [Policy brief]. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. [Technical/Scientific Report]. Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
Danzi, L., Orchiston, C., Higham, J., & Baggio, R. (2025). Tourism disaster management: A social network analysis of nature-based destinations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Travel Research, 64(8), 1901-1928. doi: 10.1177/00472875241268623 Journal - Research Article