Measuring the Amount of Regional Resilience in Qazvin Urban Region

Nowadays, special emphasis is put on the notion of resilience instead of vulnerability. So the need to have research in regional level is obvious, especially in Iran where there has not yet been any deep and encompassing study on the concept of resilience in regional level. The aim of this research is to assess the level of regional resilience in Qazvin Urban Region as a case study. In this applied research, descriptive-analytical- comparative method was used to identify the indicators affecting resiliency and to evaluate these indicators in Qazvin. After defining the indicators through library-based studies, the required information was gathered through population census and Qazvin Comprehensive Plan. Some data was gathered through 384 questionnaires distributed in Qazvin terminals. In order to incorporate indicators, the method of total distance from Mean was used. Based on this method, the definition of the optimal level for each index was required. The optimum level was reached after reviewing similar studies in United States (especially California) and Japan. Then the distance from optimal was calculated for index. The results illustrate that among the different dimensions of resiliency in Qazvin, institutional relationships (by 48 %) and the physical dimensions (by 45%) have more distance from optimal. "The ratio of hospital beds to population" of physical dimension, "social capital" of the social resiliency, "large-scale area business centers" of the economic resiliency and the "institutional performance" of institutional resiliency have far distance from optimal, and need a priority in planning.