Evaluation and Assessment of the Amount of Resiliency of Shiraz city With a risk-reducing against Natural Hazards

Today, the great damage of natural and man-made hazards to environment and the framework of cities have made the concept of resiliency as an important issue in crisis management in order to reduce the effects of the events. Recognition of resiliency can help to identify the qualifications and characteristics which cause to increase the capacity of confronting communities to events and also can offer tools to help the process of reducing vulnerability. The present research is an applied research in terms of purpose, and also is a descriptive-analytical research in terms of nature, which the purpose of this study is evaluation of the amount of resiliency of Shiraz city against natural hazards. Theoretical foundations of the research were obtained through library studies and questionnaire was used as a study tool to assess the scope of the study. Therefore, 30 questionnaires were distributed by using the Delphi method among the experts in various fields which were related to the topic who were identified the current status of the Shiraz city. The data were analyzed by Spss software. The results of the research showed that the mean rate of Shiraz is 2.45, which is below the average rate (3) and therefore is not resilient against natural hazards. Also, the results of stepwise regression showed that the institutional-managerial component with the beta coefficient of 0.825 had the most impact and the economic component with the beta coefficient of 0.321 had the least effect on the resiliency of Shiraz city against natural hazards.