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Business Continuity Planning

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Adverse conditions; Business continuity and resiliency planning (BCRP); Business continuity management (BCM); Crisis management; Disaster; Disaster recovery planning; Disruption; Emergency; Hazards; Incidents

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Business continuity planning supports an organization to continuing its operations after an incident or under adverse conditions, such as a natural disaster, disease pandemics, terrorist attacks, serious accidents, external hacker or other IT attacks, disruption of supply chains, and/or other abrupt and unexpected changes in business environment. Hence, business continuity is the organizational capability to continue delivery of products and services even under the aforementioned adverse conditions within an acceptable time frame. Business continuity planning means to identify critical core processes of the organization, to analyze business impacts, and to find backup processes and response strategies in the event of disruption. For this reason, business...

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  1. University of Applied Sciences, Zittau/Görlitz, Germany

    Markus Will & Jana Brauweiler

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  1. Markus Will
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  1. European School of Sustainability, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Astrid Skjerven

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Will, M., Brauweiler, J. (2020). Business Continuity Planning. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_2-1

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