Increasing Environmental Resilience through Codification of Cultural-Sotial Tourism Strategies, to obtain Urban Sustainable Development (Case Study of Tehran District 22)

Subject Areas : Environmental managment

Hasan Asgari dafe ¹ , Ali Mohammadi ² , Borhan Ryazi ³ , Bahar Beyshami ⁴

1 - PhD student in Environmental Management, Faculty of natural resource and environment, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Environment, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Tehran Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor of Environment, Pouyandegan Mohit Zist, Valie Asr St., No. 1103, Tehran, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor in Research Institute of Cultural Heritage & Tourism, Tourism Research Institute, Tourism deputy, Hajj building, Roodaki st., Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-07-26 Accepted : 2022-10-02 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Cultural Strategies, Region 22, Sustainable development, resilience, Urban tourism,

Abstract :

Background and purpose: This research was carried out with the aim of investigating the factors affecting the increase of urban resilience in the 22nd district of Tehran and developing practical cultural and social strategies. Considering the high potential of the 22nd district of Tehran in attracting tourists, especially ecotourism, as well as the environmental, social and economic conditions of the area, this area has been selected as a case study example, where the factors affecting the resilience of the urban environment against the presence of tourists are studied.Research method: The research method was a questionnaire design for tourists. This questionnaire included infrastructural, structural and physical, environmental, economic, social, cultural and managerial dimensions. In the next step, the CVM questionnaire on tourists' willingness to pay in order to preserve and develop the urban environment of Tehran's 22nd district was investigated. The dependent and independent variables of the research were evaluated with the help of the logit model and the results were calculated as positive or negative effects of the variables on the environmental resilience of the 22nd district of Tehran. Finally, with the help of the TOWS matrix, the strategies needed to solve the main problem in the research were extracted with the help of identifying strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats.Results: In the results of the logit model, it was determined that the variables of receiving input, duty orientation and the reason for travel have a negative effect and the variables of income level, age, education level and the variable of consequentialism have a positive effect on the amount of people's willingness to pay for the preservation and development of the environment in the 22nd district of Tehran, which finally It leads to an increase in resilience.Conclusion: According to the results of the research, it seems that a detailed and codified program to control the effective factors of environmental resilience in metropolises can be effective in improving the quality of the urban environment.

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