Resilience planning is vital to helping communities and organizations reduce risk and uncertainty around future events. At EBP, we support clients across all our practice areas to incorporate resilience into their planning processes. This work considers the potential impacts of extreme climate events, social disruption, health and environmental emergencies, and economic downturn. 

EBP’s multidisciplinary teams specialize in measuring broad social and economic impacts of disruptions that may be ignored by more traditional methods. This approach ensures decision makers can look beyond immediate consequences and communicate the importance of investing in resilience to key audiences. In this way, diverse government and community partners can see the benefits of improved resilience and participate as partnership stakeholders in planning and funding resiliency measures. 

We work with clients to plan for resilience in the fields of urban development and real estate, transportation, public policy, business continuity planning, and supply chain analysis. Our services include: 

• Assessing how policy responses to prolonged and recurrent climate events impact households and business 
• Mapping populations and infrastructure most vulnerable to climate events 
• Making recommendations for cost-effective investments in infrastructure redundancy 
• Measuring economic impacts of disruptions 
• Estimating the benefits, costs, and economic impacts of investment in resilient infrastructure
• Conducting outreach to engage communities in policy development and planning 
• Documenting best practices for resilience planning through peer and literature reviews 
• Supporting clients in obtaining much needed government grants to help finance local resiliency investments.