Conceptual Explanation of Resilience and Creation of its Indicator in the Community Base Disaster Management

Today, disaster management and sustainable development theories are seeking to create resilient communities against the natural hazards. Therefore, many researchers believe that the resilience is one of the most important research topics in the context of achieving sustainability. Regarding above fact, the resilience is considered as a way to strengthen the communities with use of the capacities, which is formed different definitions, approaches, indicators and measurement models. To answer the main question, “which definition, theoretical approach and indicator making systems are suitable to analyze and improve the community resilience for the natural hazards?” the method of analytical-descriptive and through instruments of library study is used. The results show that the definition of Carpenter et al., 2001 is emphasized in the scientific communities, and accordingly, appropriate indicators to measure resilience were proposed in the base of four social, economic, institutional and Physical-environmental dimensions. Finally, it is extracted that the most appropriate model is the combined model of DROP Cutter and CBDM, on the base of the conceptual approaches and the presented indicator-creating structure. Because this combined model considers many features such as simultaneously a place of being centered, integrated, and gaze at the dimensions selected quality indicators and people's participation as a key multi-stakeholder partnership planning and natural disaster management in local communities.