The Analysis of the Capacity of Adaptation of Urban Community Groups to Environmental Crises with Emphasis on Psychological Security and Civil Defense (Case Study of Kerman)

Disaster reduction and the achievement of sustainable development and community resilience requires the recognition and analysis of the multiple dimensions of the capacity to handle and adapt communities and groups to natural hazards (earthquake) that is introduced as the third step in the process of vulnerability of cities against earthquake hazards and emphasizes the ability to handle and respond to earthquake hazards and considers it to be a function of socioeconomic conditions. The concept of handling capacity and adaptation was defined in five dimensions and 15 variables. The weight of the indexes and dimensions was also obtained by group AHP method. Required data were also collected through a field survey and using a household and expert questionnaire. Cochrane method was used to determine the sample size. Sampling was done by stratified random method. Data analysis and hypothesis testing were performed through multi-criteria decision making, one-way ANOVA, Tukey's test and spearman correlation method. The results of this research show that the lower and middle strata of Kerman have average scores of 37.02 and 40.38, respectively, of the capacity to handle and have little adaptation to the earthquake risk. Also, the upper strata of Kerman have an average of 54.50% of the capacity to handle and moderate adaptation to earthquake risk.