The evaluation of social sustainability indicators in the Rural Areas Case Study: Rural suburban city north of Islamabad-West

Authors

• Bahram Emani
• Soheila Bakhtar
• Abdoreza Khoshraftar

Abstract

    Nowadays, the attitudes toward the sustainable development as a framework to analyze rural settlements have underline value and credit; which have the various dimensions such as economic, social, and environmental ones in which the social sustainability has been one of the principal foundations and ultimate purpose of sustainable development. This mentioned dimension relates to quality of life; furthermore, this social sustainability accompanied with the concepts such as intercommunity, coherence, social justice, life quality, and hope for the future. So according to importance of this issue, present study has been aimed to analyze and evaluate of indicators of social sustainability in rural areas located in northern area of Eslam Abad-e – Gharb. This research stands on the applicable purpose and the descriptive-analytical method. Data used in this research have been collected via library (Note-taking) and questionnaire. The study area includes 23 villages in rural district of northern suburb of Eslamabad-e Gharb County by having 1387 families. The sample valume is estimated around 309 people calculated by Cochran formula.  Analysis of the data from the questionnaires was conducted by using electronic decision-making techniques, and it shows that the indicator of social sustainability in studied villages of this research does not have the appropriate distribution. As result, the stability in 3 villages has relatively stable, and in 16 villages has average stability and in 4 villages has relatively instable. Among 10 specific indicator, the indicator of intercommunity has the most effect and the indicator of service satisfaction has the least effect on the social sustainability in the mentioned area. 

Keywords

• Rural Development
• Sustainable Development
• Social Sustainability
• Electer model
• Eslam Abad –e- Gharb

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