Abstract

Reducing Critical Service Loss Through Coordinated Resilience Planning
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Julian Watts

Recent catastrophic events affecting people and assets have resulted in a surge of Business Continuity Planning (BCP) requirements on the boardroom agenda. This presentation seeks to highlight flaws in BCP that only account for a single asset service or organization. It summarises observations from traditional disaster planning methods and compares outputs from vulnerability analysis and macro Geographical Information Systems (GIS) modeling. These outputs illustrate coordinated analysis across highways, local roads, water services and wastewater services can yield very different results then when undertaken for a single service at a time. It concludes that a Triple Bottom Line approach of economic, social and environmental considerations be accounted for to balance impacts of events between services. It outlines the importance to regulate coordinated resilience planning that embeds BCP in regional planning requirements and enforce responsibility for agreeing a shared amount of network risk with others that provide essential services to our communities.