| A discussion of resilience and sustainability: Land use planning recovery from the Canterbury earthquake sequence, New Zealand W Saunders, J Becker International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 4 (1), 73-81, 2015 | 213 | 2015 |
| Land-use planning for natural hazards in New Zealand: the setting, barriers,‘burning issues’ and priority actions BC Glavovic, WSA Saunders, JS Becker Natural hazards 54, 679-706, 2010 | 144 | 2010 |
| Innovative land use planning for natural hazard risk reduction: A consequence-driven approach from New Zealand WSA Saunders, M Kilvington International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 18, 244-255, 2016 | 103 | 2016 |
| Guidelines for assessing planning policy and consent requirements for landslide prone land W Saunders, PJ Glassey GNS Science, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Risk modelling as a tool to support natural hazard risk management in New Zealand local government MH Crawford, K Crowley, SH Potter, WSA Saunders, DM Johnston International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 28, 610-619, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| Strengthening linkages between land-use planning and emergency management in New Zealand W Saunders, J Forsyth, D Johnston, J Becker Australian Journal of Emergency Management, The 22 (1), 36-43, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| Progress toward implementing the Sendai framework, the Paris agreement, and the sustainable development goals: Policy from Aotearoa New Zealand WSA Saunders, S Kelly, S Paisley, LB Clarke International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 11 (2), 190-205, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| Local government and disaster G O’Brien, G Bhatt, W Saunders, JC Gaillard, B Wisner Handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction, 629-640, 2012 | 36 | 2012 |
| Evaluating land use and emergency management plans for natural hazards as a function of good governance: a case study from New Zealand W Saunders, E Grace, J Beban, D Johnston International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 6, 62-74, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| Risk-based land use planning for natural hazard risk reduction W Saunders, JG Beban, M Kilvington GNS Science, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| It's our fault: better defining earthquake risk in Wellington R Van Dissen, P Barnes, J Beavan, J Cousins, G Dellow, ... University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| Realising the potential of land-use planning to reduce hazard risks in New Zealand BC Glavovic, WSA Saunders, JS Becker Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies 1, 1-14, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| Disposal of debris following urban earthquakes: guiding the development of comprehensive pre-event plans D Johnston, L Dolan, W Saunders, R Van Schalkwyk, C Killeen, ... Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited, Wellington, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Disaster risk reduction and land use planning: Opportunities to improve practice J Garrido, WSA Saunders IAEG/AEG Annual Meeting Proceedings, San Francisco, California, 2018-Volume …, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| National planning and disaster A Lavell, JC Gaillard, B Wisner, W Saunders, D van Niekerk Handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction, 617-628, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Setting the scene: the role of iwi management plans in natural hazard management W Saunders GNS Science, Te Pū Ao 10, G26D2V, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Communities and Climate Change: Vulnerability to rising seas and more frequent flooding J Stephenson, C Orchiston, W Saunders, S Kerr, A MacMillan, ... Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, Wellington, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Challenges and opportunities for economic evaluation of disaster risk decisions N Smith, C Brown, G McDonald, M Ayers, R Kipp, W Saunders Economics of disasters and climate change 1 (1), 111-120, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| A synthesis of challenges and opportunities for reducing volcanic risk through land use planning in New Zealand JS Becker, WSA Saunders, CM Robertson, GS Leonard, DM Johnston The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies 1, 24, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Innovative land-use planning for natural hazard risk reduction in New Zealand WSA Saunders WSA Saunders, 2012 | 15 | 2012 |