Assessment of Sustainable Development Indicators in Kermanshah Province Using regression analysis and Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy

Abstract

Social justice, along with the management of human interactions with their environment and available resources, has been indicated as the main concerns in the development process to achieve sustainable development in its transcendent meaning. comprehensiveness and balance for having sustainable development and Awareness of dispersion trend of these indicators is an issue which is necessary today in developing countries and consequently in our country, due to the existing imbalances between the areas for achieving balanced development as the recognized characteristics of sustainable development. In the present study which is performed by "- descriptive analysis” method, it is tried to show a sustained feature in development trend through evaluating about 40 indicators of minor development indicators for evaluating its stability in the form of overall indicators of cultural, social, economical, health, communication and public urban facilities in townships of Kermanshah province. In this regard, the two objectives of awareness of distribution condition of the selected development indicators according to statistical data of the cities of Kermanshah Province, using fuzzy AHP model and the effect of selected indicators of sustainable development models using regression analysis in (SPSS) software have been analyzed. Obtained results showed that, firstly the distribution condition of economical indicators among the selected economic indicators in the cities of the province has an imbalanced condition and secondly, a deep relationship exists between the selected indicators for Assessment of sustainable development in the province and sustainable development of the province.

Keywords

• sustainable development
• fuzzy hierarchical analysis
• kermanshah province
• regression analysis