To Study the Effect of Crisis Management in Reducing the Damages Caused by Earthquake in Urban Decay : Case Study : Chahbahar Town

Abstract

One of the issues that most of the cities of the world are facing with, is natural disasters including earthquake that from time to time endangers the lives and property of a group of them and considering the unpredictability nature of them and the necessity of making a quick and correct decisions and implementation of the operations and the theoretical and fundamental principles of it, a field of knowledge as crisis management has been created. This knowledge refers to a set of actions which are performed before, during and after the emergency for reducing the effects of these disasters and reducing their vulnerability. Considering the historical seismicity status of Chahbahar town and according to the latest seismic hazard zonation map, the city is located in the area of seismic risk and also due to the existence of urban decay of this city, dealing with crisis management seem to be necessary. The present paper has been conducted with the use of descriptive-analytical method and the collection method is documental and bibliographical. With the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) the Earthquake-prone areas, Fault Lines have been identified and the urban decay area in the city has been specified. Also in this study the issues and problems related to crisis management and the required actions have been studied and our aim is to put an emphasis on crisis management and the necessity of the role of urban planners in reducing the vulnerability of the city against earthquake disasters and taking correct executive, remedial and managerial actions for the improvement and reconstruction of the urban decay of the city as well and studying and extending the standard construction throughout the city.