Prioritization of Flood Vulnerability Criteria in Qirokarzin City, Fars Province

INTRODUCTION: Flood is a natural hazard with the highest frequency and the widest geographic distribution around the world. Indiscriminate exploitation of forests and pastures, changing the land use and turning them into unsuitable agricultural lands, along with the indiscriminate construction of residential areas, have caused an increase in floods. This article is done with the aim of prioritizing flood vulnerability criteria in Qirokarzin city in Fars province. METHODS: In this descriptive-analytical research, priorities and effective criteria were selected through library studies, examining various sources, as well as the Delphi technique, then, the opinion of experts and specialists was asked and prioritization was done using a questionnaire. FINDINGS: According to the findings of the research, 12 effective criteria in the occurrence of floods in the study area are: land use, streets and public roads, distance to the river, soil texture, amount of precipitation, not respecting the boundaries and development of urban areas towards the rivers, high runoff coefficient in the areas residential, low width of the communication network, population density, type of building materials, slope of the land and overall capacity of flood control. In the following, for each criterion, the graph of importance percentage and degree of importance was drawn, and finally, based on that, the priority of the effective criteria in the study area was determined. CONCLUSION: The results showed that according to the percentage and degree of importance, neglecting the river boundary and developing urban areas towards the canals with an importance level of 8.5 and an importance percentage of 34.2 and the population density with the degree of importance of 5.8 and the percentage of importance of 23.5 are respectively the highest and lowest priorities in Qirokarzin city.

Prioritization of Flood Vulnerability Criteria in Qirokarzin City, Fars Province Keywords:

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