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Volume 15, Issue 3 (Autumn-In Press 2025)
Disaster Prev. Manag. Know. 2025, 15(3): 0-0 |
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hasanzadeh S, salimi tari A, Samadi Foroushani M, moradi rozbahani S, Miresmaeeli S S. Analyzing the Barriers and Guidelines to Improve Disaster Management Exercises Qualitatively in 22-District of Tehran Municipality Using a Descriptive – Structural Modelling. Disaster Prev. Manag. Know. 2025; 15 (3)
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Samira Hasanzadeh1 
, Azizollah Salimi tari2 , Marzieh Samadi Foroushani3 , Samim Moradi rozbahani4 , Seyedeh Samaneh Miresmaeeli5
, Azizollah Salimi tari2 , Marzieh Samadi Foroushani3 , Samim Moradi rozbahani4 , Seyedeh Samaneh Miresmaeeli5
1- Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
2- Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3- Industrial Engineering Department, Ivan Kay, Iran
4- Tehran Crisis Prevention and Management Organization, Tehran, Iran.
5- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2- Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3- Industrial Engineering Department, Ivan Kay, Iran
4- Tehran Crisis Prevention and Management Organization, Tehran, Iran.
5- Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Theme and purpose: annual diverse exercises are planned and executed in the levels of Tehran’s boroughs and areas aimed at empowering disaster management personnel to learn and exercise expected roles and functions in responding to emergency conditions and promoting the capacities of involved organizations/actors for an effective response. Present study identifies and analyzes barriers and points needed to improve conducted exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas for an improved constant planning.
Methodology: Relevant methodology is a combination of analyzing qualitative content, fuzzy Delphi approach and descriptive structural modelling. To this end, upon reviewing relevant documents and analyzing qualitative content of maneuver reports, a list of barriers and pointed needed to be improve are identifies and are, then, classified in terms of their joint implications. Identifies barriers are classified in 10 main themes and 27 sub-themes. Then, a semi—structured approach was designed by fuzzy Delphi approach and after two steps of monitoring, 14 barriers and improvable points of exercises were concurred by participants. Based on descriptive structural model, the influence and impressionability of barriers were investigated in pairwise and structural self – interactive matrix, initial accessibility matrix and final accessibility matrix were all devise. In the next step, considering all inputs and outputs, barriers of exercising disaster management exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas are classified and then relevant descriptive structural model was devised.
Findings: based on the findings of the model, the guidelines to improve disaster exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas are suggested including planning the exercises based on the results of risk evaluation in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; training planning to promote maneuver actors’ knowledge and skills; assuring awareness and joint understanding of planners and organizers on maneuver executive process; fostering contribution by key actors and collaborative entities in executing exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; enhancing the functions and coordination of disaster exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; fostering integrated communication network infrastructures of disaster management headquarters in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; investing and providing financial resources to update exercises equipment and backup services in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; improving the consideration of safety principles and spatial notification in maneuver site scope; making learning exercises efficient including making documentaries, assessments and management the lessons learned.
Methodology: Relevant methodology is a combination of analyzing qualitative content, fuzzy Delphi approach and descriptive structural modelling. To this end, upon reviewing relevant documents and analyzing qualitative content of maneuver reports, a list of barriers and pointed needed to be improve are identifies and are, then, classified in terms of their joint implications. Identifies barriers are classified in 10 main themes and 27 sub-themes. Then, a semi—structured approach was designed by fuzzy Delphi approach and after two steps of monitoring, 14 barriers and improvable points of exercises were concurred by participants. Based on descriptive structural model, the influence and impressionability of barriers were investigated in pairwise and structural self – interactive matrix, initial accessibility matrix and final accessibility matrix were all devise. In the next step, considering all inputs and outputs, barriers of exercising disaster management exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas are classified and then relevant descriptive structural model was devised.
Findings: based on the findings of the model, the guidelines to improve disaster exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas are suggested including planning the exercises based on the results of risk evaluation in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; training planning to promote maneuver actors’ knowledge and skills; assuring awareness and joint understanding of planners and organizers on maneuver executive process; fostering contribution by key actors and collaborative entities in executing exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; enhancing the functions and coordination of disaster exercises in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; fostering integrated communication network infrastructures of disaster management headquarters in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; investing and providing financial resources to update exercises equipment and backup services in Tehran’s 22 urban areas; improving the consideration of safety principles and spatial notification in maneuver site scope; making learning exercises efficient including making documentaries, assessments and management the lessons learned.
Keywords: exercise, Disaster preparedness and response, disaster management, 22-district of Tehran Municipality, descriptive – structural modelling
Type of Study: Research |
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Received: 2025/05/7 | Accepted: 2025/07/8 | ePublished: 2025/12/21
Received: 2025/05/7 | Accepted: 2025/07/8 | ePublished: 2025/12/21
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