Crisis Management Research Group

It aims at proposing novel approaches in crisis management and disaster risk management. Thus, all the projects are defined and implemented within the same objective.
Designing the crisis room in various provinces, including Kordestan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Qom, and Kermanshah, is one of the projects implemented between 2000 and 2005. Earthquake warning devices were installed in different provinces from 2006 to 2009 to predict large earthquakes. The device was invented in the Natural Disaster Research Institute and registered in the Industrial Property Registration Organization. 
Afterwards, the significant project of crisis management of Imam Reza Holy Shrine was carried out in the city of Mashhad. Furthermore, due to the capacity of the Crisis Management Research Group, professional training courses on crisis and risk management were held by faculty members and experts for various ministries and organizations.

In recent years, the research group has focused on projects such as resilience against natural hazards, making cities smart against natural hazards, emergency housing, incident command system, disaster risk reduction in urban areas (land subsidence and flood) and incident command system in neighbourhoods.
In 2020, by establishing the Natural Disasters Start-up Incubator, new areas of activities emerged within the research group, including identifying activities of natural disasters start-up incubators, establishing a database for the main natural hazards, and investigating rapid alert systems around the world.

The main activities include:

• Consulting and collaborating on designing and establishing crisis management systems in all provinces, organisations, firms, and governmental and private complexes of the country;
• Designing, holding, and assessing remote manoeuvres for the leading and controlling working group and operational working groups in the level of province and county, and providing technical services and consulting on crisis management and risk management;
• Conducting comprehensive studies on activities in various stages of crisis and risk management;
• Carrying out studies on earthquake early warning and forecasting systems; 
• Preparing and compiling guidelines for rapid assessment of complexes, institutions, and settlements after disasters;
• Preparing and compiling crisis management and environmental management plans for urban and rural communities;
• Designing and preparing a comprehensive database of crisis management information at the provincial and city levels and large complexes;
• Translating, writing, and publishing books related to crisis management and risk management.

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Head of the research group: 

Morteza Jafari

Scientific Members:

Morteza Jafari	Fatemeh Eyvazi Sodagar		Seyed Hamidreza Mofazali
Ali Saket

 

Research Projects:

Year	Research title	No
2019	Proposing solutions for reducing the risks of land subsidence in urban areas	1
2019	Planning emergency response operations in urban areas	2
2019	Requirements of hazard management system in underground mines	3
2019	Assessment of flood-affected rural settlements considering the micro-climate, the Saravan case study	4
2019	Report of the 2019 Golestan Flood	5
2019	Report of the 2019 Masjed-e Soleyman Earthquake	6
2019	Report of the 2019 Sistan va Baloochestan Flood	7
2019	The initial report of the landslide following the 2019 flood (Mazandaran and Lorestan)	8
2018	Development of criteria for economic resilience of rural areas against natural disasters (focusing on sustainable development based on resistance economy)	9
2018	Developing a framework for designing and establishing a local incident command system for villages, districts, and cities	10
2018	Investigating the factors involved in risks and resilience of roads and strategies for resilient roads of the country (volume 2)	11
2018	Development of criteria for emergency housing in urban areas	12
2018	The need for a systematic approach in urban planning of flood risk management	13