بررسي مشاركت روستاييان در بازسازي مناطق زلزله زده

Rural Participation in the Reconstruction of the Earthquake-ridden Regions

This article attempts to examine the extent of rural participation in the reconstruction of the regions devastated by earthquakes. It also investigates the system of reconstructing houses and buildings razed during the quakes in three different periods and in the past 50 years. Situated on the quake belt, Iran has experienced disastrous earthquakes in recent decades, which have inflicted immense damage particularly on rural areas and their inhabitants. Negligence to utilize standard quality construction materials as well as lack of sufficient knowledge of erecting building structures have been the prime causes of the great destruction sustained by rural homes and buildings. Iran has experienced 90 fairly powerful jolts in the past 90 years that have resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of human lives. For example, about 60,000 Iranians have been killed in earthquakes in the past 25 years alone. (Statistics by the Emergency and Relief Headquarters for 1992) The reconstruction of the damaged arcas,particularly in rural regions has always demanded the outside aids. Owing to the pour economic conditions, the problems stemming from the grief they experience because of the death or injury of their family members and/or relatives, the need to attend to farm affairs and chores, etc., the villagers need the aids and assistance of others. In such circumstances, both the government and the people rush to provide the vitally important relief help. In this article, the reconstruction experiences and efforts in three different periods-Feudal (Landlord-peasant period), post Land Reform, and post Isalmic Revolution - have been probed into, and the rural populationʹs participation in the reconstruction has been examined.