Measuring the institutional-organizational resilience of Ardabil city against environmental hazards

Today, the resilience approach is used to manage crises caused by risks and achieve sustainable development. This approach has four dimensions, one of the most important of which is the institutional-organizational dimension. This dimension of resilience emphasizes the role of authorities in preventing disaster. The aim of the present study is to assess the institutional-organizational resilience of Ardabil city against environmental hazards from the citizens' point of view. The present research method is descriptive-analytical in nature and applied in terms of purpose. In order to collect data, the field sampling method (completing a questionnaire) has been used and in this regard, a number of thousands of questionnaires, proportional to the size and population of neighborhoods and have been completed in a randomly classified method. In the present research process, in order to determine the weight of the 6 main research indicators, the entropy method was used from the opinions of 10 experts (by snowball method) and in order to overlap the layers, the functions in Arc GIS software in the form of Vicor model were used. The study area of this research is the city of Ardabil and its neighborhoods. The results of the research have shown that among the 6 general indicators of the research, the risk reduction index is more important than other indicators. Also, the spatial results regarding the institutional resilience of Ardabil city against environmental hazards indicate that the areas located in the northwest and northeast of Ardabil city (with marginal texture and villages integrated into the city) are in a state of damage. The central area of the city (with organic texture) and the southern part of the city (with planned texture) are in a state of resilience. In general, the high vulnerability of the lower neighborhoods (in terms of texture type) is due to the weakness of institutional dimensions.