Identification, Classification and Prioritization Social Resilience Criteria and Indicators in Iran

Risks and stress in economic, political, environmental and social have been on the rise in recent years, so the issues of resilience have a great importance. A society can succeed in crises of human and natural disasters whose institutions are well resilience in the face of these events. By a resilience system, social resilience can absorb temporary or permanent stress without losing the functions of society and adapt to changing circumstances. The first step in social resilience assessment is Identification, Classification and Prioritization of criteria and indicators. In this study, by document analysis and review of studies in the field of social resilience, classification and prioritization of criteria and indicators have been investigated. Seven criteria groups of social, managerial-physical, economic, cultural, psychological, spiritual and environmental were identified and classified according to 16 main criteria, 42 sub-criteria and 379 indicators. Most of the indicators belong to the social and managerial-physical criteria group. Prioritization at three levels of criteria group, main criteria and sub criterion showed that social criteria group, main criterion of social capital and sub-criteria of social infrastructure and social cohesion had the highest priority.