Resilience of Kermanshah and ways to improve it

The importance of cities as the dominant form of human settlements is clear, on the other hand, the vulnerability of cities is increasing despite the natural disasters that have occurred in recent years. Today, the occurrence of natural disasters and the damage caused by these accidents have made making cities safer, becoming a long-term but achievable challenge; So that in order to quickly return to the pre-crisis situation when natural hazards occur, urban communities are determined to reduce the damages to some extent. Meanwhile, resilience is an important way to strengthen urban communities by using their capacities. The purpose of the present study is to identify the indicators of urban resilience to natural disasters. This research was conducted based on the development goal and "descriptive-analytical" nature in the survey method in 1401 in the city of Kermanshah. Data were collected using document reviews and questionnaires. The sample size was determined by using the census method, 20 people. Judgment sampling and snowball sampling were used for sampling. The data from the fuzzy Delphi method were analyzed to identify 38 sub-indices effective in resilience against natural disasters, weighting the factors or criteria of the proposed model and classifying them into four general groups: structural-physical, management-policy, socio-cultural and economic. After ranking the resilience indicators of Kermanshah against natural disasters, it was determined that the structural-physical index ranked first, the managerial-policy index ranked second, the economic index ranked third, and the socio-cultural index ranked fourth. The results of the examination of the sub-criteria related to the physical criterion showed that among the resilience indicators, the physical index was the most effective, therefore the zoning of the city of Kermanshah based on the level of physical resilience and active urban participation and sharing experiences to increase the resilience of the city of Kermanshah and lay the groundwork for Attracting participation and preparing people to face critical times seems necessary.