Considering that cities accommodate most population of the country to themselves, and are mostly the economic, political, cultural, social and governance centers in the countries, and since urban sustainable development refers to a balance between various social, environmental dimensions of the city and their concurrent development, so their preparedness against natural disasters should always be considered by the relevant experts. Over the past decades, new methods have been invented to confront the floodwater, and these methods have more preventive, and not a therapeutic nature. In this regard, the present research by documentary study has investigated the impact and role of natural disasters (urban floodwaters) crisis management on the sustainable development of Ahvaz city. According to the type of research, the proposed questions will be analyzed by two separate methods and will be answered. Therefore, separate questionnaires have been prepared for each one of the methods. The statistical sample to answer the first questionnaire has been estimated by the Cochran formula, that according to the population of Ahvaz city, 384 people were selected as the sample size and were questioned. The statistical sample of second group consists of 30 managers and authorities of Ahvaz city, was selected among the same first statistical population too. The obtained results of research findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between crisis management and sustainable development. As it is observed, the correlation coefficient ratio has been obtained as 0.829, its significance level has been 0.000, and since it is less than 0.05, it shows a significant correlation between variables.
