The Assessment of Risk Perception Spatial Pattern Segregated Neighborhoods in Yazd City

During the last quarter century, millions of people around the world are strongly influenced by the types of hazards. Nowadays, topics related to citizen participation in reducing vulnerability to hazards and making communitie's resilience have attracted special attentions. Community-based disaster risk management is a down to up management approach that is upon communities and their participation throughout a risk management process. In this among, what causes communities participation to take decisions for prevention and preparedness, is how much risk they are perceived. This research is seeking to evaluate the level of urban extreme rainfall risks that are perceived with communities in the desert city of yazd. Furthermore, it wants to assessment the influence of risk perception on behaviour of these communities. So, to obtain the data questionnaire-based survey is used and for analyzing, SPSS software is used. The results show, not only there is a difference between the studied neighborhoods in the level of risk perception but also different risk perception influence on communitie's behaviour.