جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری (Sep 2023)
The role of infrastructure in the realization of reverse migrations in the central part of Borujerd city
Abstract
Introduction: Infrastructure development is a sustainable strategy that plays an important role in increasing rural living standards by improving the quality of life and providing amenities, and it also helps to develop and change urban ecology. In this way, it can be a step in the realization of reverse migration. Considering the importance of this issue, in the present research, the role of infrastructure in the realization of reverse migration in the central part of Borujerd city was investigated.Data and Method: The current research is practical in terms of its purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of its method. The tool for collecting data and information was a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population of the current research is experts and rural experts, villagers, educated people, facilitators, resident immigrants and local informants of the central part of Borujerd city. 100 samples were selected using non-probability sampling method and targeted method. To analyze the data, descriptive analysis, one-sample t-test and structural equation model (SEM) were used.Results: The findings showed that the condition of existing infrastructure in the central part of Borujerd city was favorable. Also, the results obtained from the modeling of structural equations showed that the research model, according to the coefficients of the direct path, is respectively influenced by communication infrastructure with a coefficient of 0.49, construction infrastructure with a coefficient of 0.34, welfare infrastructure with a coefficient of 0.29, and infrastructure with a coefficient of 0.29. health and education with a coefficient of 0.23 and service infrastructure with a coefficient of 0.19. The p value of all lambda parameters in the above model indicates the confirmation of all relationships.Conclusion: The standard estimations of infrastructures and reverse migration model showed that in the studied infrastructures, communication infrastructure with factor load and direct impact coefficient of 0.49 had the greatest impact on reverse migration in the rural areas of the central part of Borujerd city. The service infrastructure with factor load and direct impact coefficient of 0.19 has the lowest direct impact.
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