Place Vulnerability Assessment of the Infrastructures in Ardabil Province

According to Iran’s strategic pisition in the middle east and the ongoing threat of neighboring and non-neighboring countries, unfortunately projects and economic infasturactures have been established without proper defensive considerations as a target for enemy threats and other offensive actions. The present study is an applied and developmental research that aims at studying and scrutinizing the vulnerability of infastructures in Ardabil province from the perspective of passive defense. Moreover, analytic network process (ANP) approach is used in GIS environment with elements of physical and biological environment, accessability, and infasturactures in order to carry out the research. The results of spatial pattern analysis and vulnerability zoning show that the spatial distribution of infrastructure in Ardabil province is cluster type (non-dispersive) and in terms of vulnerability, 7% of Ardabil province are located in highly vulnerable areas which are themsleves among the most densely populated places with high amounts of established infasturatures. This is due to poor physical indicators and lack of sufficent focus of management, industrial, and military institutions in these areas of the Ardabil province.