بررسي جايگاه توسعه پايدار در اجتماعات روستايي ايران

Sustainable Development in the Rural Communities of Iran

The review of situation of rural communities in Iran indicates that social welfare programs and rural development donʹt adapt with sustainable development patterns. Because these programs could not achieve goals in all areas, had most effects in rural communities. In this research information gathered through documental and laboratory study then new findings and results from secondary analysis developed, sustainable development conceptualized for this study by three main dimension: integrated development, social justice and environmental considerations. The findings show that poverty, deprivation and inequality in rural communities is more than urban areas, and also social welfare programs and rural development have not reduced increasingly problems of rural communities. In the rural development programs, agricultural and infrastructural activities dominated without any specific effective result. The process of increasingly environmental destruction and wilderness development in pastures is considerable. The results show that there is not sustainable development approach in the social welfare programs and rural development in Iran and this is because of lack of theoretical framework of development and also lack of in effective approach in social participation in programs. Local and community based development is approach of sustainable development. If rural communities in the form of local institutions participated in recognizing and arrangement of their critical needs by facilitator state institutions, many of plans and activities will be effective.