Promoting Community-Based Earthquake Risk Reduction and Resilience Activities in Iran


Abstract eng:
During recent years and especially after enacting the Sendai Framework for DRR, developing resilient communities to natural disasters has been considered in many countries including Iran. As results, variety of community-based activities for disaster risk management, such as promoting public awareness and participation in earthquake risk reduction programs from local to national levels have been prepared and implemented. In this paper, some of the activities carried out in Iran for this purpose is addressed and the results of pilot studies carried out in some parts of Tehran for involving local people in DRR activities is presented and the willingness of local residents to participate in such activities is discussed. In this regard, the necessary trainings have been presented to local communities and disaster maps at neighborhood levels have been prepared by the residents themselves. In addition, preparedness drills have been implemented in some places to assess the effects of trainings. The result shows that the presented trainings had different impacts on communities and the level of success is related to socio-economic and cultural characteristics of local residents. It is also found that novel ways need to be developed for changing the attitude of people to participate in such activities.

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Conference Title:
16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Conference Venue:
Santiago (CL)
Conference Dates:
2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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