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Best Practices of the Iranian UNESCO Chairs
“Activity Report”
2018
Title of UNESCO Chair : UNESCO Chair on Natural Disasters Management
Institution: Natural Disaster Research Institute and Natural Disaster Higher Education Institute of Applied
1. Education and training ( courses / workshop / short term training)
Title:
*Conducting serial training workshops :Lessons learned from the Earthquake of, 12
November 2017 Ezgeleh , Sar –e- Pole Zahab, Kermanshah province, with an aim to
build resilience of the region to earthquake ,December 2018 till 2019.
**Holding a workshop on "Destructive earthquakes in Iran's Plateau and the disaster
risk reducing of structures" October, 2017.
***Holding a training course on “Explaining concepts of the Sendai frameworks and
opening a resiliency think tank for Hamedan municipality. September, 2017.
****Short term training course on "New technologies in seismic retrofitting", May,
2018.
Participating in UNESCO Regional Workshop on SETI in DRR in Asia and the Pacific: “Strengthening, Empowering, and Mobilizing Youth and Young Professionals in SETI for DRR” Jakarta, 6-9 November 2018
Date and place: *December 2018 till 2019, **October, 2017, ***September, 2017, ****May, 2018, Tehran,
Kermanshah
Participants: Directors and deputies of : Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation, Building and Housing Research
Center, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Ministry of Education,… Governors and mayors,
also professors and students interested in research on natural disasters and issues of crisis
management, Construction, Rehabilitation and post-accident reconstruction
Brief report: The ultimate goal of this series of training workshops is assisting to prepare a national earthquake
risk reduction strategy for proper policy making and guidance with an aim to disaster risk reduction
including prediction , vulnerability reduction and endeavor to develop resistant cities against future
disasters, establishing and implementing specific programs to reduce Exposure, emergency
response, rehabilitation and reconstruction, and finally building the resilience of people and
communities against disasters . Particular emphasis must be put on areas where vital infrastructure
related to water, transportation and communications, educational facilities, hospitals and other health
facilities are located in order to ensure safety, efficiency and efficacy during and after a disaster with
due consideration to the national and international high level frameworks and documents. Key
measures must be taken in various social, economic, political and environmental dimensions In order
to enhance disaster preparedness for effective response and “Build Back Better” in recovery,
Geographical coverage : Bushehr province and its counties
Brief report
The study of natural and environmental hazards is necessary for development and physical projects
planning and providing basic needs for investment.The Bushehr province, due to locating on
Zagros orogenic belt, by considering that this mountain range is one of the most active
seismotectonic zones in Iran and every year we see numerous earthquakes along this tectonic zone,
carrying out the seismic studies and earthquake hazard assessment in Bushehr is necessary and
essential. As we know, the dominant climate of the country is hot and dry and the Bushehr province
is not exception in this regard. Furthermore, his province is not safe against torrential rains because
of special situation of this province in the south of Zagros Mountains and due to low cover of
vegetation as well as its soil characteristics which has low soil permeability, great floods in the
province occur. All of these factors are causing big floods in the province. According to the above,
flooding and drought studies are among basic necessities of the province. The aim of the study in
the first phase is identification and zoaning flood, draught, and seismicity hazards in the Bushehr
province and its counties which will lead to developing zoning hazards maps and related reports.
In the second phase, studies related to summing information gathered and hazards zoning maps of
studied hazards and the analysis of natural hazards (floods, drought and earthquake) for
infrastructure vital lifelines, dams, government buildings, public, commercial and industrial,
hospital fire stations, substations, roads, bridges, water supply network, and gas supply network,
pharmaceutical and medical centers in province’s counties will be done. And preparation and
compiling the risk management action plan of studied hazards during crises will be done too.
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** Title:
"Climate change in MENA region and its impacts on Dust, flood
and drought"
Duration: 5 year
Target group:
The main objective of this proposal is to study the climate change in Iran, but in order to
accomplish this task profoundly we should consider the adjacent areas especially the
lands to the west of Iran.
Geographical coverage : MENA region (Middle East and North Africa)
Brief report:
Climate change is in fact a hazard and is scaled at the highest degree of damaging and
devastating power. The main indicators of climate change are temperature rise, sea level
rise, arctic ice melting, precipitation reduction, increasing frequency of extreme climate
conditions such as very high or cold temperatures and torrential rainfalls.
The Middle East is one of the most vulnerable areas of the world to the climate change.
Any adverse impact here affects not only the region itself but also the whole world. That
is why this area is more strategic for the world. Therefore we are trying to study the
climate change in Middle East and North Africa to show its severity and impacts and
finally provide some reasonable solutions to it.
Our framework for this research includes the following concepts and processes:
Understanding the active climate systems in MENA region,
Identifying Climate dynamics, especially the pressure systems in the region,
Climate change: definition, impacts on every land use and land cover in MENA region.
Detecting the present climate of the region and identifying the trends
Attributing the identified trends to global warming
Climate change risks and hazards in MENA region.
Modeling and simulating the future climate.
Solutions including mitigation and adaptation methods.
*** Title:
“Resilience Program in Rural Areas of Iran with Emphasis of Disaster Risk
reduction”
Duration: 2 year
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Geographical coverage : Rural areas in Iran
Brief report:
The rural areas in Iran were exposure of natural disaster in past decades and there are
important evidences in vulnerability of these areas of viewpoint: physical, economic,
social, environment and etc. Cause of this case related to high vulnerability in rural
structures, absence education in this case for dwellers in these areas, low income this area,
absence of prevention and preparedness programs in these area and etc. We try to present
a resilience program with emphasis on natural disaster risk reduction on this project. Our
target of this project is follow world programs in this subject based "Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015".
The purpose of this study is identification and presentation of approaches in rural resilience in Iran
and using of results of this research for neighbor countries. For this purpose we need to spend these
stages:
1- Study of vulnerability of rural areas in Iran and their capacities in natural disaster
2- Plan of resilience based capacities in rural areas.
3- Implementation of plan of resilience
4- Standing supervision on Implementation of plan of resilience in regular period
Target group: Islamic Revolution Housing Foundation, Governor's Office in different
province of Iran, Crisis Management Organization,…
3. Conference/ meeting
Title:
*Co-operation in holding Sixth Conference on ” Flood Management and Engineering” 11, 12
August 2018
** 1st National Conference on ” earthquake and risk management”5,6 March 2018
***Holding the" First International Climate Change Conference" Cooperation with K. N.
Toosi University of Technology and Natural Disaster Research Institute (NDRI). March, 2017
**** Participate in the Global Geneva conference (MOBILIZING UNESCO CHAIRS FOR POLICY ACTION) and introducing UNESCO chair on Natural Disasters Management and its activities in the country, 5 to 7 July 2017.
Date and place: 11, 12 August 2018 & 5,6 march 2018 Tehran- Iran, 5 to 7 July 2017,
Geneva ,Switzerland.
Participants : Ministries, organizations, universities and other responsible organizations in
Iran, professors and students interested in research on natural disasters specially earthquake
issues.
Brief report :
* One of the most important events and natural hazard in Iran is the flood. Due to
geographic conditions, most of place in country faces atmospheric instability and flood
problems. Occurrence of this destructive phenomenon in cities causes irreparable
damage to urban facilities, roads, buildings, agricultural lands, gardens, human casualties
every year. Therefore, holding scientific seminars and conferences in order to co-ordinate
and exchange knowledge of specialists in the field of hydrology, river engineering,
climatology, urban planning, urban management, crisis management and insurance, etc.,
in order to create an optimal model for prevention, crisis management and compensating
for the damages seems to be beneficial and effective.
** Best topics in this conference: Earthquake engineering, geology and earthquake, structures and
earthquakes topics, urban management and earthquake, public relation and earthquake.
meeting :
Visiting the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) in Kobe, Japan, and participate in meeting with the Executive Director (ADRC) Ms. Kyoko KONDO , introducing UNESCO chair on Natural
Disasters Management and its activities in the country (IRAN), Dialogue for more communication and mutual cooperation.
Meeting with Shahbaz Khan (PhD, director and representative UNESCO regional science bureau
for Asia and Pacific) at the Geneva conference“MOBILIZING UNESCO CHAIRS FOR POLICY ACTION“ and introducing UNESCO chair on Natural Disasters Management and its activities in the country ,5 to 7 July 2017 & UNESCO Regional Workshop on SETI in DRR in Asia and the Pacific: “Strengthening, Empowering, and Mobilizing Youth and Young Professionals in SETI for DRR” Jakarta, 6-9 November 2018
Meeting with " Margherita Fanchiotti "Associate Programmer Officer at the UN
Environment/OCHA Joint Unit (disaster risk reduction and resilience section on earthscience
and geo hazard risk reduction), For the presentation of monthly earthquake forecast maps for
Iran and early warning systems.
Meeting with " Soichiro Yasukawa " program specialist section on earthsciences and Geo-
Hazard Risk Reduction SC/EES/EGR To describe the actions, Capabilities and other needs of UNESCO chair for Participation in the aftermath of the earthquake in Kermanshah province- Iran
( title, authors , year, language , number of pages )
*Participation in the 35rd General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission, 4 to 10 September, 2016 in Trieste, Italy:
Title:
1- Seismicity of the Bushehr region with emphasis on the destructive earthquake of 2013, Kaki, in Zagros, southwest Iran-1 page
2- Investigation of the April 2013 destructive earthquake in Makran subduction zone, south-east of Iran-1 page
Authors: Maryam Sedghi, Ramak Heidari, Mohammadreza Gheitanchi, Abbas Jazayeri
year : 4-10 September 2016
language: English
** Participation in the 2017 IAG-IASPEI –Kobe, Japan 39th Joint Scientific conference (joint scientific assembly of the international association of geodesy and the international association of seismology and physics of the earth's interior) with Presentation of scientific paper :
Title: Determination of Design Spectra with considering different siteclassification, in Andisheh suburb of Bandar Abbas, South of Iran-1 page
year : JULY 30 ,2017- IASPEI Symposium / IASPEI02. Earthquake Hazard , Risk and Strong Ground Motion / S07. Strong ground motions and Earthquake hazard and risk
language: English
*** Participation in the 3th comprehensive conference on urban management on 15, 16 January 2018/Tehran, Iran , with Presentation of scientific paper-16 page :
Title: City Governance Challenges in Climate Change
**** Participation in the 1st National Conference on ” earthquake and risk management” 5,6 March 2018/Tehran, Iran , with Presentation of scientific paper-7 page :
Title: Strong ground motion simulation of 2017 earthquake in Khorasan- Razavi province, using EGF
method
Authors: Maryam sedghi, Hesaneh mohamadi , Mohamadreza Gheitanchi, Abbas jazayeri
year : 5,6 March 2018
language: Persian
***** Participation in the Sixth Conference on ” Flood Management and Engineering” with
Presentation of scientific paper-18 page :
Title: Identification of vulnerable rural areas against flood risk Case study: Rural areas of Guilan
province
Authors: Farzaneh Nasiri Jan Agha,Mohammad ali Rahimipour Sheikhani nejad, Bahman Ahmadi
Scientific support of the master's degree thesis titled " Determine the thermal anomalies before
large earthquakes using Satellite Images" at the University of Shiraz.
6- Networking with the other chairs /universities / institutions
Memorandum of educational research with universities and the other UNESCO chairs and scientific hubs:
Research Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Studies, Shiraz University
The Center of Excellence for Spatial Analysis and environmental hazards of Kharazmi University
Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch
Allameh Tabataba'i University
Malek Ashtar University of Technology (MUT)
Concluding a Memorandum of Scientific Research Cooperation with the National Crisis Management Organization.
Concluding Scientific Research Collaboration Memorandum for Cooperation between UNESCO Chair on natural Disaster Management, Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and Hamedan Municipality.
UNESCO Chair in Health Education, “Immunology, Asthma & Allergy Research
Institute (IAARI)” Tehran University of Medical Sciences
UNESCO chair on Engineering Education, Tehran University
UNESCO Chair on Clean and Renewable Energies, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University
UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Shahid Beheshti University