A Survey of the dimensions effect of social capital on municipal waste recycling in Shiraz

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

Mansore hagegatyan ¹ (دانشیار گروه جامعه شناسی، واحد دهاقان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، دهاقان، ایران)
Kyanoush gholipour ² (دانش آموخته دکتری جامعه‌ شناسی فرهنگی، واحد دهاقان، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، دهاقان، ایران)
Syedali hashemyanfar ³ (استادیار گروه جامعه شناسی، دانشگاه اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران)

Received: 2015-08-28 Accepted : 2016-08-16 Published : 2016-07-22

Keywords: Recycling municipal waste, Waste separation at source, Social trust, Social commitment, Participation in society,

Abstract :

    Today, the issue of recycling and its dimensions to be considered as an essential principle in the waste management. With the growing trend of landfills and environmental impacts that can not be buried or burned, and look only to the physical and chemical resort. But, one of the keys to success in this case is the importance of social factors affecting recycling such as social capital. This study surveys the relationship between social capital (social trust, social commitment, community involvement) and recycledurban waste.This is a survey research and the study sample is citizens living in shiraz(1400000).According to the sample in structural equation modeling determined 500 citizens from 9 metropolitan area that were selected through quota sampling and data gathered by questionnaire.The reliability of the questionnaire through Cronbach's alpha coefficient and validity by using confirmatory factor analysis were confirmed. The results indicated a statistically significant relationship between any of the variables of social trust, social commitment, community involvement and recycling of municipal solid waste is approved. Pearson correlation coefficient, is respectively 0/20, 0/15 and 0/19. In the multivariate structural equation models to measure the impact of these variables into account errors respectively, 0/13, 0/13 and 0/23 and the coefficient of determination is 0/13.

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