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This tab includes guides to help practitioners assess risks to and develop adaptation plans with consideration of the vulnerabilities of local businesses. It also includes guides for working with businesses to help them prepare for climate change impacts.

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The Resilience Advantage: Build Your Small Business Resilience Plan in 5 Steps

September 2, 2025

Developed by Climate Resilience Consulting, “The Resilience Advantage” is a web-based guide designed to help small businesses understand their disaster-related risks and better prepare for disaster events to ensure resilience and business continuity.

Author or Affiliated User: Joyce Coffee

Resource Category: Planning

 

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The Definitive Guide to Disaster Planning

2019

This emergency preparedness guide is for business owners of large or small operations to create and implement a business continuity plan. A business continuity plan should establish a comprehensive disaster plan that ensures that the business can survive a variety of interruptions, recover from a weather event, reduce liability concerns, protect revenue sources, build a culture of preparedness, and more. The guide presents a 12-step process that business owners should undertake if they want their business to survive a disaster, including extreme weather events induced by climate change.

Resource Category: Planning

 

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