EMERGENCY PLANNING &
BUSINESS CONTINUITY

Emergency planning and business continuity through Resilience Explorer®

The benefit of hindsight, beforehand.

Resilience Explorer® helps you understand how climate and natural hazard impacts cascade across infrastructure networks and communities. It provides the evidence to support emergency planning, readiness exercises, and business continuity planning with realistic, forward-looking scenarios.

Effective emergency planning depends on understanding not just where a climate or natural hazard event will strike, but what will stop working as a result. The communities most at risk, the services most likely to fail, and the response capacity needed most: this information has to exist before the event, not after.

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Challenges facing Emergency Planning and Business Continuity

Understanding how climate and natural hazard impacts may spread across infrastructure networks and services

Identifying which communities may face isolation, service loss, or greater harm during an event

Ensuring agencies share consistent information about risks, dependencies, and potential disruptions

REGULATORY CONTEXT
Emergency management legislation requires agencies to understand climate and natural hazard impacts and plan how essential services and communities will function during emergencies. Resilience Explorer® helps you do both.

How Resilience Explorer® enables Emergency Planning and Business Continuity

Understand how hazards affect infrastructure networks. See how climate and natural hazard impacts may disrupt essential infrastructure across the network.

Identify communities that may be most affected. Understand which communities may face the greatest disruption before an event occurs.

Support emergency planning and readiness exercises. Use realistic scenarios to strengthen preparedness.

Inform staging and resource planning. Understand where response resources may be needed most.

Support business continuity planning. Understand how infrastructure disruptions affect the services your organisation is responsible for.

KEY BENEFIT

Strengthen emergency planning with clear evidence of how natural hazard events affect infrastructure and communities.

Emergency planning and business continuity through Resilience Explorer

See how Resilience Explorer® is enabling tangible outcomes across these sectors.

EMERGENCY PLANNING & BUSINESS CONTINUITY
GOVERNMENT
INFRASTRUCTURE
PROPERTY & LAND USE
FINANCIAL SERVICES
OUTCOME | FOODSTUFFS SOUTH ISLAND

"Resilience Explorer has helped us focus our conversations on where resilience investments will have the greatest impact. Instead of debating where to start, we can quickly identify priority locations and concentrate our effort on making informed decisions."

Vanessa Jones, Emergency Management Business Partner, Foodstuffs South Island

From urban centres through to remote rural communities, Foodstuffs South Island (FSSI) plays a critical role in ensuring communities across the South Island can access food, water, fuel, and other essential supplies, including during emergencies.

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A simple three step process

Connect your data

01.

Multiple data sources, one place. Understand your exposure across your entire district or network.

Explore 

risk across scenarios

02.

See how risk changes over time and under different climate projections. Model how consequences cascade.

03.

Act with 

defensible evidence

Prioritise investment, test adaptation options, and build business cases that stand up to scrutiny.

See how it could work for your organisation.

If your organisation is managing infrastructure, land, or community assets and needs to move from risk visibility to risk-informed decisions, we would like to show you how the platform works. A 20-minute walkthrough using your district’s hazards.

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