The Role of Risk Management Strategies to Mitigate the Damages Caused by Earthquake (Case study: Khorramabad city)

Various types of natural hazards and their influence spread as unrepeatable and destructive phenomena, always have existed during  the earth life  And after the human birth  have always been a serious threat to mankind. So planning before crisis is one of the  important issues  of the world's today that urban managers are facing with especially in the field of crisis management. Since  Iran is considered as the  disaster-prone countries in the world, the urban management shall have a great power and capability in facing with natural disasters and in order to mitigate the effects of urban crises shall improve their capability and power continually. One of  cities of Iran which faces more than others with this difficulty is Khorramabad. This city, due to its geographical position and  locating among  Zagros Mountain chains and also the existence of  floodways  and rivers inside it on one hand and placing  on a great deal of  faults on the other hand has a high vulnerability against natural disasters. This paper studies the role of crisis management  to mitigate the effects and damages of  natural disasters( earthquake) in Khorramabad city  through library - Descriptive analysis approach and field evaluation process. The results of the  study can be used for decreasing the effects and damages due to natural disasters  as particularly and also proper management and planning can be referred. Also GIS software is used for  the analysis of data.