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Assessment of the current climate resilience of urban neighborhoods; case study: neighborhoods of district 18 Tehran
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Azin Pirasteh   , Zeinab Adeli * , Mohammad Reza Yazdanpanah Shahabadi |
| Department of Urban Planning Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran. |
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Objective: The primary objective of this research is to identify the key factors influencing climate resilience and to evaluate and prioritize the neighborhoods of District 18 of Tehran based on their level of climate resilience. District 18 was selected as the case study due to its geographical characteristics and the concentration of industrial activities within the area. The neighborhoods of the district served as the unit of analysis
Method: To assess the climate resilience status of the neighborhoods in District 18 of Tehran, the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method was employed. Indicator weights were determined using the Shannon Entropy method. In this technique, the weight assigned to each indicator is calculated according to the degree of variation and dispersion in its values across the study area. Subsequently, the SAW method was applied by integrating the calculated indicator weights with the corresponding indicator values for each neighborhood. This process enabled the evaluation and ranking of the neighborhoods based on their overall climate resilience scores.
Results: The findings derived from the Shannon Entropy analysis indicate that, among the evaluated indicators, pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure, land-use incompatibility, building quality and structural resistance, building orientation, undeveloped large-scale land uses, land subsidence, industrial and commercial land uses, the number of approved regulations related to climate change-induced disasters, and the number of organizations and institutions involved in disaster management received the highest weights. These indicators were therefore identified as the most influential factors in determining the climate resilience of neighborhoods in District 18 of Tehran.
Conclusions: The results reveal significant spatial variations in climate resilience across the neighborhoods of District 18. While some neighborhoods demonstrated relatively higher levels of climate resilience, others were found to be more vulnerable. Through the collection and analysis of data related to the selected indicators, the climate resilience status of each neighborhood was assessed individually and ranked according to the relative desirability or undesirability of the evaluated indicators. |
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| Keywords: climate resilience, resilience, climate change, district 18 of Tehran. |
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Received: 2025/11/11 | Accepted: 2026/04/27 | Published: 2026/06/10
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