Assessing the resilience of urban and rural communities against natural hazards and presenting a resilience model in each of the communities (Case study of Golpayegan county)

Natural hazards have always occurred suddenly and at all times. Human societies have always suffered greatly from these dangers. One way to deal with these risks is to increase the resilience of communities to these risks. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the resilience of urban and rural communities against natural hazards and to provide a resilience model in each of the communities in Golpayegan city. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method of work. The statistical population of the study consists of all heads of urban and rural households in Golpayegan city (61101 households), from which a sample size of 621 people was randomly selected using the Cochran's formula. One-sample t-test, regression analysis and path analysis were used for the analysis. The results of regression analysis showed that the economic index with beta coefficient of 13161 has the greatest impact on urban and rural communities and the institutional index with beta coefficient of 13032 has the least impact. Also, the results of path analysis showed that the economic variable with an overall effect of 13226 and the social variable with an overall effect of 13223 have the greatest impact on the resilience of urban and rural communities in Golpayegan, respectively, and the physical-environmental variable with an overall effect of 13232 Among other variables, it had the least impact on the resilience of urban and rural communities in Golpayegan. Also, the results of experts' studies showed that the resilience of rural communities is much lower than the resilience of urban communities. Also, the results showed that the total resilience of rural communities is equal to 23112 and in urban communities is equal to 63011, which shows the difference in resilience between urban and rural communities.