Habibi M, safari Aliakbari M, Hadi S, khani Efechai I. Analysis of factors affecting the ecological resilience of rural settlements Case study: Southern Astarabad Village, Gorgan County. JFCV 2025; 6 (1)
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1- Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Sahneh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sahneh, Iran , Mirsalar.habibi@iau.ac.ir
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
3- Master of Architecture, Damavand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
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The resilience of rural settlements appears as a vital component, which indicates the ability of the system to maintain structural and functional stability amidst external disturbances or changes. Strengthening rural settlements and raising their resilience level is a vital task for the revival of rural settlements. However, rural settlements in Iran are faced with various challenges such as environmental degradation, lack of public services, unemployment, poverty, etc., which are serious obstacles to rural settlements achieving sustainable rural development. This research was developed with the aim of analyzing the factors affecting the ecological resilience of rural settlements. The present research is applied in terms of type of research and descriptive-analytical nature, library and field data collection method (questionnaire); Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics (mean and frequency distribution) and inferential statistics using structural equation modeling in the SPSS and PLS software environments. The statistical population of the present study is households in South Asterabad, Gorgan County. The number of samples required to complete the questionnaire was determined as 341 people using the Cochran formula as the sample size. The findings of this study showed that the factors of ecological patterns and functions with a path coefficient of 0.299, socio-economic patterns and functions with a path coefficient of 0.377, natural structure with a path coefficient of 0.268, and knowledge and awareness of village residents with a path coefficient of 0.238 have a positive and significant effect on the ecological resilience of rural settlements. Among the identified factors, the factor of social and economic patterns had the highest impact coefficient, and the factor of knowledge and awareness had the lowest impact coefficient.
Type of Study:
Applicable |
Subject:
Architecture and Urbanism Received: 2025/02/1 | Accepted: 2025/03/6