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Ostvar Izadkhah Y, Hajizadeh Zaker N, Salehi I, Fakhri Bafghi B E. An Evaluation of People’s Knowledge of Tsunami: Case study of Chabahar in 2009. jorar 2012; 4 (2)
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Assistant Professor, Risk Management Research Centre, International Inst. of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), Tehran, Iran
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Introduction: Education and community preparation are one of the most important components of disaster management. This phase of the disaster management cycle can play a significant role in disaster risk reduction due to its serious effect on community. So far, because of this importance, many activities have been undertaken in various countries for disaster education and public awareness.
Method: This study aims to assess and evaluate the public awareness of tsunami disaster in Chabahar port in Iran by using questionnaires that were distributed among three various groups of respondents including: residents, school children and governmental officials. Data have been collected by field technique through simple random sampling.
Conclusion: The results has shown the lack of awareness and knowledge of people in the region especially women. ba sed on the obtained findings and analysis of the results, few suggestions and strategies are proposed by the authors for raising public awareness of probable tsunami disaster in the future as well as to promote novel disaster management methods.

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Short Reports or Letters: Research Article | Subject: حمایت روانی در سوانح

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