Determining the Conceptual Framework of Dust Risk Based on Evaluating Resilience (Case Study: Southwest of Iran)

In last decade, increasing of environmental issues such as the occurrence dust storms, have caused concern among planners. To this purpose, it is important to provide a method for control and combat with it .Therefore, Risk assessment can help planners as a key and effective way of preparing programs and adopting dust management strategies. Therefore, it is necessary to identify a standard framework for finding resilient and vulnerable groups. In order to provide an appropriate framework to the dust risk assessment, first the theoretical foundations of vulnerability, adaptability and resilience was investigated, then Resilience assessment tools were prioritized. The statistical population of this research are experts and relevant specialist and for the evaluation of tools, the TOPSIS method has been used. The results of this study show that the CoBRA framework is priority to other tools based on five criteria (access to data source, quantification and qualification potential, including five basic capitals, different spatial and temporal scales and threshold. Therefore, CoBRA is the main basis for the conceptual framework of this study. Because it involves Social, human, physical and natural capitals, Also the degree of vulnerability based on adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure and the degree of resilience based on physical, human, financial, natural and social resources are estimated. The conceptual framework and results presented in this study could be the basis for assessing dust risk in the affected areas.