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 networksSee how climate and natural hazard impacts may disrupt essential infrastructure across the network.

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

Support emergency planning and readiness exercisesUse realistic scenarios to strengthen preparedness.

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

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

KEY BENEFIT

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

Emergency planning and business continuity through Resilience Explorer

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.

Not yet using Resilience Explorer®?

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.

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Level 3/209 Tuam Street

Ōtautahi | Christchurch 8011

info@urbanintelligence.co.nz