Analysis of the Resilience Status of Mashhad City in the Face of Water Insecurity

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D student of Geography and Urban Planning, Kish International Campus, University of Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor of the Department of Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor of the Department of Human Geography and Planning, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Today, water insecurity is one of the biggest threats to human life, which has faced the cities with many challenges such as threats to the health and livelihood of citizens, lack of safe and sanitary water, increase urban poverty, threats to food security, restrictions on economic development, etc. From this point of view, in recent decades, various solutions and perspectives have been proposed to solve this challenge and reduce its effects on the level of urban settlements. In the meantime, one of the most important solutions is paying attention to the concept of urban resilience, which has attracted a lot of attention in the field of urban planning in recent years. For this purpose, the current research has been carried out in order to measure the resilience of Mashhad city in the face of water insecurity. In this research, with a quantitative method, descriptive-analytical in nature and based on a measurement framework, researcher-made questionnaires based on the Likert scale using the Cochran formula and the snowball method were distributed among 400 citizens of Mashhad, 40 experts from Mashhad City Water and Wastewater Company and Khorasan Razavi Regional Water Company, as well as 40 experts and researchers related to the research topic in Mashhad and their output has been analyzed with one-sample t-test, Pearson's correlation test and multiple regression analysis. The results of this research show that the city of Mashhad did not have the necessary resilience to face water insecurity and reduce its effects (the average is lower than 3) and if its resilience capacity is strengthened in the context of drinking water supply and purification for citizens (correlation coefficient 0.868), water environmental sustainability (correlation coefficient 0.729), water governance (correlation coefficient 0.698), reducing water-related disasters (correlation coefficient 0.635) and increasing productivity and making affordable drinking water supply for citizens (correlation coefficient 0.548), we can expect the realization of water security at the level of this city.

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  • Receive Date: 03 August 2024
  • Revise Date: 11 November 2024
  • Accept Date: 13 November 2024

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