The Role of Rural producer Cooperative in reducing the effects of environmental hazards: (Case study: Ghoortan village)

Abstract

Disasters and environmental hazards have long time been considered as the destructive factors for humans, society and human life. In this regard establishing a strong management style and applying proper methods to control the crisis can reduce the amount of damages. So, this study aimed to assess the environmental hazards in research area, and the efforts to reduce the impact of rural producer cooperative that is called Arg Roodasht in Ghoortan village. Statistical populations in this research are including cooperative members of Arg Roodasht and the questionnaires were distributed among 100 members of the cooperative’s board of directors. To achieve the research objectives, review methods and survey methodology and also questionnaires have been used. In order to determination questionnaire validity, expert views used and for determination questionnaire reliability Cronbach’s Alpha method (78%) used. The data analyses were conducted by using descriptive statistics, One-Sample T-test and structural equation modeling. The results showing that drought and river erosion were the most important natural hazards in the research area. Among the human risks of drought in the research area prevalence of illness and disease, conflict and differences between rural people as well as rural migration had the most important influence in the research area, respectively. Based on the results of the sample T-test, Arg Roodasht’s performance in order to combat drought and river erosion by 95 percent, significantly higher than average were evaluated

Keywords

• environmental hazards”
• » rural producer cooperative”
• “structural equation modeling”
• arg roodasht”
• ghoortan village