An analysis of urban settlements resilience against natural hazards with emphasis on flood (Case study: Chamestan City)
Subject Areas : Environmental hazards and human settlements
Roghayyeh
Maesoumian
1
(Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University of Nour, Iran)
صدرالدین
متولی
2
(دانشیار گروه جغرافیا. دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نور)
Gholam Reza
Janbaz Ghobadi
3
(Department of Geography, Islamic Azad University of Nour, Iran)
Shahriar
Khaledi
4
(Professor of Climatology, Department of Natural Geography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.)
Keywords: Flood, natural hazards, Urban Resilience, Chamestan City,
Abstract :
AbstarctIntroductionRecently, there are dramatic changes in attitudes to flood hazard and the prevailing view has shifted from reducing vulnerability to improving and promoting resilience to hazards.GoalImproper development of Chamestan urban area due to human activities has directly changed many lands of the city in a very short period of time, through which hazards such as floods are created. Accodingly, the purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between the indices affecting the resilience of Chamestan against floods.MethodologyThis study is applied in terms of aims and descriptive-analytical in terms of method and nature. To achieve this purpose, the resilience of Chamestan against floods was analyzed and measured based on 5 dimensions of physical-infrastructural, social, institutional, economic and environmental resilience. These five dimensions, along with the defined indices and sub-indices of them based on the research literature, are designed in the form of researcher-made questionnaires to examine and analyze their situation in the city.Geographical area of researchChamestan city is the center of Chamestan district in Noor city, which is located in the foothills of northern Alborz. Chamestan is bounded on the north and west by the central part of Noor township, on the south by Baladeh district of Noor township and the foothills of the central Alborz, on the northeast by Mahmudabad township and on the east by Amol township. This city extents to Noor from the north and west, from Baladeh and the foothills of Central Alborz from the south and to Amol from the east.Results and discussionBased on the means obtained from the T-test statistical analysis, Chamestan city is located at moderate and under-resilient level in terms of physical, infrastructural, social, institutional and economic resilience. However, the environmental resilience of the city against floods is relatively poor and does not show a favorable situation.ConclusionIn order to promote the resilience of Chamestan city against floods, it is necessary that organizations and management institutions and planning in the field of crisis management and urban hazards pay attention to this important point and to promote social resilience pay special attention to education and increase local community knowledge. It should also be noted that the expansion of insurance is one of the most appropriate strategies to achieve a society with sustainable health and is basically one of the ways to provide and achieve peace, comfort and reduce stress in families.
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