Village and Space Sustainable Development

Village and Space Sustainable Development

The performance of local management in improving indicators of spatial evolution in the rural settlements (Case study: Esfandaqiyeh District in Jiroft County)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Naser ShafieiSabet 1
Faezeh Ebrahimipour 2
1 Assistant Professor of Geography and Rural Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Master student of Geography and Rural Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
10.22077/vssd.2021.4174.1024
Abstract
The present research has studied the role of local management in improving indicators of spatial evolution in Esfandagheh. Therefore, the research has considered internal features and external features of indicators of local management as the influential variables, and the dimensions of spatial evolution (such as environmental-ecological, social, economic, and physical-infrastructural ones) as the factors which are influence by the preceding ones. The present research was an applied, quantitative one in which a questionnaire was distributed among 370 households in 30 villages which were randomly selected. The results indicated that there is a statistically significant positive relationship between indicators of local management and dimensions of spatial evolution in the rural settlements studied. Furthermore, economic index is ranked as the first dimension (mean=3.27), and environmental-ecological index (mean=3.19), social index (mean=3.14), and physical-infrastructural index (mean=2.91) are ranked as the second, the third, and the last one respectively. Therefore, it is suggested that local management pay more attention to spatial evolution in rural settlements, especially in terms of the physical-infrastructural dimension via adopting appropriate policies to improve social and economic activities.
Keywords
local management
personal characteristics
organizational features
spatial evolution
rural settlements
  • آشتیانی، علی فتحی(1389)، «مقدمه ای در ازمون های روانشناختی»، تهران: انتشارات بعثت.
  • سرایی، حسن (1393)، «مقدمه­ای در نمونه­گیری در تحقیق»، تهران: انتشارات سمت.
  • Adebayo, AS. (2014). Local Government and the Challenges of Rural Development in Nigeria (1999 to date). IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science, 19(4), 98-107.
  • Adedire, SA. (2014). Local Government and the Challenges of Rural Development in Nigeria (1999 to date). IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 19(4), 98-107.
  • Bahl, Roy W, & Linn, Johannes F. (1992). Urban public finance in developing countries: The World Bank.
  • Bourdieu, Pierre, & Passeron, Jean-Claude. (2020). Les étudiants et leurs études: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Brown, H Carolyn Peach, & Sonwa, Denis J. (2015). Rural local institutions and climate change adaptation in forest communities in Cameroon. Ecology and Society, 20(2).
  • Cobbinah, Patrick Brandful. (2015). Local attitudes towards natural resources management in rural Ghana. Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal.
  • Day, Christopher, Gu, Qing, & Sammons, Pam. (2016). The impact of leadership on student outcomes: How successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a difference. Educational administration quarterly, 52(2), 221-258.
  • Dorobantu, Maria Roxana, & Nistoreanu, Puiu. (2012). Rural Tourism and Ecotourism–the Main Priorities in Sustainable Development Orientations of Rural Local Communities in Romania.
  • Egreteau, Renaud. (2017). Parliamentary Development in Myanmar: An Overview of the Union Parliament, 2011-2016.
  • Frost, Peter, Campbell, Bruce, Mutamba, Manyewu, Mandondo, Alois, & Kozanayi, Witness. (2007). In search of improved rural livelihoods in semi-arid regions through local management of natural resources: lessons from case studies in Zimbabwe. World Development, 35(11), 1961-1974.
  • Galli, Alessandro, Iha, Katsunori, Pires, Sara Moreno, Mancini, Maria Serena, Alves, Armando, Zokai, Golnar, . . . Wackernagel, Mathis. (2020). Assessing the ecological footprint and biocapacity of Portuguese cities: Critical results for environmental awareness and local management. Cities, 96, 102442.
  • Jamal, Tazim, & Budke, Christine. (2020). Tourism in a world with pandemics: local-global responsibility and action. Journal of Tourism Futures.
  • Lestarini, Ratih, Harmain, Riza, Wulandhary, Succi, & Utari, Dyah. (2018). The implementation strategy of customary law aspect in protecting local environment. Paper presented at the E3S Web of Conferences.
  • Muro, Melanie, & Jeffrey, Paul. (2008). A critical review of the theory and application of social learning in participatory natural resource management processes. Journal of environmental planning and management, 51(3), 325-344.
  • Ohe, Yasuo, & Kurihara, Shinichi. (2013). Evaluating the complementary relationship between local brand farm products and rural tourism: Evidence from Japan. Tourism Management, 35, 278-283.
  • Simpson, Adam, Farrelly, Nicholas, & Holliday, Ian. (2018). Routledge handbook of contemporary Myanmar: Routledge.
  • Tsimpo, Clarence, & Wodon, Quentin. (2018). Residential Piped Water in Uganda: The World Bank.
  • Vajja, Anju, & White, Howard. (2008). Can the World Bank build social capital? The experience of social funds in Malawi and Zambia. The Journal of Development Studies, 44(8), 1145-1168.
  • Vasylchenko, OP, Lotiuk, OS, & Gut, NY. (2018). CIVIL SOCIETY AS THE SUBJECT OF FORMATION OF STATE POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF SUBSOIL USE AND PROTECTION. Scientific Bulletin of National Mining University(6).