Urban Resilience and Natural Hazards Urban Resilience and Natural Hazards Survey of Resilience of Bandar Abbas city in Environmental Dimensions and Components and Presentation of Urban Management Strategies

Increasing natural and human hazards, especially in developing countries, have led to more attention being paid to concepts such as vulnerability and resilience. The aim of this study was to investigate the resilience of Bandar Abbas city in environmental dimensions and components and to present an urban management strategy. The population and the statistical sample of the study include experts in urban planning issues who have been selected and questioned as purposeful samples (20 people). Prioritization of environmental indicators and components; Presenting a strategy by experts to improve the resilience of Bandar Abbas.Most of the researches in Iran have been done in terms of social and economic vulnerability, but in the present study, the relationship between ecosystem literacy and environmental indicators has been investigated. Assessing urban resilience in this research can be considered as a new method in urban management. The results of the survey show: The urban resilience situation of Bandar Abbas with the calculated value of 3.29 is favorable and in a good situation in the face of environmental crises. Finally, Friedman test has been used to rank the indicators and environmental components of Bandar Abbas and urban management strategies have been presented using the opinion of experts to improve the resilience of Bandar Abbas.