International Journal Of Coastal, Offshore And Environmental Engineering(ijcoe)

International Journal Of Coastal, Offshore And Environmental Engineering(ijcoe)

Analysis of the efficiency of crisis management of local communities in the face of floods due to climate change: five selected villages of port Chabahar County, Iran

Document Type : Original Research Article

Authors
Mortaza Tavakoli 1
Ali Mokhtari Karchegani 2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 PhD student, Department of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
10.22034/ijcoe.2024.455803.1077
Abstract
The threat of natural hazards in urban areas is normally addressed through land-use zoning and building regulations. The phenomenon of climate change forces rural planners to devise comprehensive measures to conform to common and greater excessive hazards. This paper discusses the capabilities mainstreaming of resilience in disaster in local development programs as a trendy comparative measure. Therefore, the motive of this article is to assess the responsiveness of the crisis management system of local communities in 5 selected villages of port Chabahar County which will deal with floods due to climate change. The current research is written primarily based totally on the descriptive-analytical approach, which is used to acquire the records of the usage of the questionnaire field method. The contributors encompass 380 humans from the local community of 5 selected villages of port Chabahar County, who had been randomly decided on. The findings of the study display that the resilience additives of settlement communities are at a low level, and the foundation of this situation should be especially discovered inside the weak point of rural disaster management. The three predominant indicators representing the resilience components of residential communities are sensitivity to flood risks with a minimum rating of 0.85 discount of exposure to risk and consequences of floods with a minimum score of 0.76 and increased adaptability of selected rural settlements with a minimal rating of 0.72. Therefore, the findings of the study imply the existence of significant gaps in the planning system of rural settlements in the face of floods, which calls for the adoption of multilateral measures.
Keywords
Crisis management
local communities
floods
climate changes
selected villages of Chabahar city
Subjects
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