Spatial Analysis of Regional Resilience to Natural Disasters )Case study: East Azarbaijan Province(

Today, natural disasters in different parts of the world have made it a long-term, achievable challenge to make areas safer. Meanwhile, resilience is an important way to strengthen communities by using their capacities. The present study was conducted with the purpose of spatial resilience analysis of cities in East Azarbaijan Province. The methodology of the present study is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of nature, descriptive-analytical. The study area in the present study is East Azarbaijan province. The data collection, documentary and library collection method is extracted from the statistical yearbook of 1395 East Azarbaijan province. The data includes 25 items in terms of social, economic, health and health services, infrastructure services and the environment. For analyzing the data, the Kriging method in GIS is used for spatial analysis of the indices and the fuzzy overlapping method for combining maps derived from the Kriging method. Findings of the study showed that among the 20 counties of East Azarbaijan, Marand, Jolfa, Shabestar and Tabriz cities have high resilience to natural hazards, while Malekan, Bonab, Ajbashir, Azarshahr and Ahar cities are resilient to the conditions. It is inadequate and faces many financial and financial losses and losses when faced with natural disasters.