Identification and Analysis the Factors Preventing the Provision of a Resilient Geographic Environment in Border Rural Areas Case study: Villages of Marivan county

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate professor in Geography and rural planning. Payeme Noor university. Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The nature of livability, quality of life and on a larger scale; Rural sustainability is intertwined with resilience; In the field of rural planning today, instead of focusing on vulnerability (crisis formation and management), emphasis is placed on the resilience of local communities (risk management and active action). Among these, the realization of resilience due to the complex, multidimensional, systemic nature and multiplicity of actors and actors in today''s variable internal and external environment; It requires the provision of conditions, needs and requirements in the rural environment, the lack of which means the creation of numerous obstacles and challenges and the continuation of environmental vulnerabilities, and in order to change the situation and move in the direction of resilience, identify these challenges and Obstacles and removing them can be considered a fundamental and important step. The present user research has been conducted for this purpose in high-risk and deprived border rural areas of Marivan county with a descriptive-analytical method and quantitative-qualitative (mixed) nature. In the qualitative part; Identifying the barriers and challenges facing the provision of resilient environment in the rural areas studied and in the quantitative part, tried to confirm and generalize the findings of the qualitative sector and provide analysis of the performance of these barriers. In the qualitative part, the in-depth and open interview method was used, and in the quantitative part, the questionnaire was distributed. The statistical population of the study includes development managers, village heads and councils, local rural knowledge, scientific and academic experts in the region and economic activists in the region, which purposefully and by snowball method, select and identify barriers to providing a swing environment Rural (quality section) and their approval (quantitative section) was done by them. The analysis of the collected data in the qualitative part based on the open coding method and in the quantitative part based on the factor analysis test showed that 64 obstacles or variables in the form of four main factors of weakness in planning, policy making, implementation, supervision and monitoring on the development process in the development management field of Marivan county (the most important and effective factor); Lack of attention and explanation of the concept of resilience and the lack of an efficient risk/crisis management structure (natural and human); The inadequacies of the social environment and the inappropriate business environment for the economic development of the villages and the weak support for providing environmental resilience in the rural areas of Marivan are effective obstacles.

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