... 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Iran Health care Tehran Urban resilience Resilience assessment The Amir-Alam hospital is located in the old city center (Mantaghe 12) of Tehran. It is delaminated by Memar-Makhsuos Street (North), Saadi Street (East...

...Nabi Moradpour; Ahmad Pourahmad; Hossein Hataminejad; Keramatollah Ziari; Ayyoob Sharifi Purpose In Iran, the frequent occurrence of disasters has always been a major problem. In recent decades, disasters have created considerable challenges, especially in cities. Hence, understanding the levels...

... on the probability-impact (P-I) approach and intuitionistic fuzzy set theory to identify and prioritize the essential earthquake risks associated with worn-out urban fabrics in the context of Iran. Design/methodology/approach The opinions of 15 experts in the fields of civil engineering and urban construction...

..., social and political conditions of Iran. Design/methodology/approach In the present qualitative study, 19 policymakers in different levels of the disaster management organizations were selected based on purposive sampling. Semi-structured and face-to-face interviews were used to identify...

.... vulnerability assessment). This study aims to assess the outcomes of relocating villages after the 2005 flood in the east of Golestan Province in Iran through sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach This study is an applied research combining qualitative content analysis and quantitative cross...

...Niloofar Mohtat; Akbar Haji Ibrahim Zargar Purpose Focusing on Rudak, a village destroyed in the Buin-Zahra earthquake of 1962 in Qazvin, Iran, this paper aims to evaluate the reconstruction of this village in terms of sustainability. Rudak reconstruction has left long-term consequences...

... Publishing Limited 2012 Housing reconstruction Bam earthquake Home loss Sense of home place Local and new styles Iran Earthquakes Natural disasters Due to the complexity of human being's responses to natural hazards, it is not easy to predict and explain the coping process (Altman...

... Publishing Limited 2011 Iran Earthquakes Housing In many of the reconstructions done by the Iranian Government in the natural disasters before Manjil earthquake, the government designed houses with modern technology and building materials. Moreover, the government did not ask...

...Reza Valizadeh; Mahmoud Elmi Purpose A remarkable number of Iran's villages, in addition to the general earthquake hazard, are faced with other natural hazards including floods, landslides, and landslips. The village of Badleh Kuh is one example faced with a great danger of land thrust and flood...

... the socio‐technical perspective of government information systems and management, and draws on the collection and analysis of several public reports, media papers, and expert opinions published in the aftermath of the earthquake in Bam, Iran in December 2003, as one of the most destructive urban disasters...