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Risk Reduction for Small Business Resiliency in Rhode Island

RPS worked with a highly-qualified project team, including the University of Rhode Island (URI) Coastal Resources Center (CRC), Milone & MacBroom Incorporated (MMI), the Climate Action Business Association (CABA), and Spaulding Environmental, to create comprehensive risk reduction guides to support small business resiliency to extreme weather events.

Project name

Risk Reduction for Small Business Resiliency in Rhode Island

Sector

  • Property - Commercial and Retail/Education
  • Defense and government services - Security and Safety
  • Water - Flooding and Drainage 

Client

RI Division of Statewide Planning

Location

State of Rhode Island

Services provided

Analysis of regions of the state most exposed to extreme weather, assessments of small businesses, development of risk reduction options, and creation of eight risk reduction guides based on small business types in Rhode Island

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Small businesses assessed

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Risk reduction guides produced

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2018

Project Start, August 16th

2018

Exposure Analysis Completed – October 31st

2018

Vulnerability Assessment Complete – February 4th

2019

Draft Guides Complete – April 30th

2019

Marketing and Evaluation Complete – May 31st

2019

Final Guides Complete – June 18th

2019

Rhode Island Executive Climate Change Coordinating Council (EC4) Brief – June 24th

2019

Project Complete – June 30th

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