Analysis of Resilience of Sistan Rural Communities Against Environmental Hazards

Abstract

Natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, droughts, etc., in geographic areas, especially rural areas, in most cases cause plenty of irreparable damage and seriously impede the sustainable development of human societies. The purpose of this study is to measure and analyze the resilience of rural communities against environmental hazards and effective factors on it in rural areas of Sistan. The research method is applied-developmental and descriptive-analytical with a quantitative survey approach. The statistical population of this study was 373 people (from villages over 50 households) by using Cochran formula 189 people were selected by stratified random sampling in proportion to the size of the population. At first, using the library method, indicators and factors affecting rural resilience of the Sistan area were identified and then the information was collected by questionnaire and field operations. Findings were analyzed by SPSS software and show that amount of β indicates that the Managerial factors, institutional factors, Economic factors and physical factors that were equal to 0.079., 0.075., 0.122 and 0.024 respectively with a significant level of 0.331, 0.327, 0.886 and 0.743, greater than 0.05, (0.05<P); do not predict the resilience of the villagers in the Sistan region and only social factors can predict or in other words effect on resilience of rural residents of Sistan.

Keywords

• resilience
• environmental hazards
• rural communities
• sistan area