Design Structural-Interpretative Model for Effective Challenges in Disaster Management

Large cities in Iran face dangers such as floods and landslides, water and food and community problems. There are challenges in the disaster management cycle which obstacle Proper operation response and readiness to hazards that understanding is very important for managers. The aim of this paper is to design a interpretative-structural model for identifying and analyzing the relationship between effective challenges in disaster management. Research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of information collection id descriptive- exploratory. TEHRAN crisis management organization managers and university professors the number 15 experts make up the research community who were selected by snowball method. Challenges were identified by documentary study and interviews with experts, and then localized using fuzzy Delphi method. Then, by designing a questionnaire, the effect of the challenges on each other was determined by the experts and the structural-interpretation model was designed. The results of this study showed that disaster management challenges are generally relating to the seven main categories of technological factors, social factors, environmental factors, political factors, legal factors, economical factors, operational / managerial factors, and institutional factors. The results of the ISM model showed that the challenges of "not paying attention to social factors when creating laws" from legal factors and "poor understanding of environmental factors" from environmental factors have the most driving power and are very effective. Therefore, managers should prioritize solving these challenges for planning a disaster management cycle process improvement.