An Analysis of the Economic Problems of the Sorena Villages District and its’ relationship with Economic Resilience

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hamed Rostami ¹ ( Department of Geography, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran )
hosein soleimani ² ( Department of Geography, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran )
ramin ghafari ³ ( Associated Professor, Department of Geography, Payam Nour University, Tehran, Iran )

Received: 2020-11-29 Accepted : 2021-01-20 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: Financial problems, natural disasters, Economic Resilience, Residence, Sorena villages,

Abstract :

Developing countries are always confronting with natural disaster as a one of the most major challenges, which cause the local economy of the spoiled region irreversible damages and neutralize the effects of the development's achievements. It is crucial to pay more attention to the rural areas not only due to being in the center zone of the catastrophe but also involving the large percentage of the nation and the lack of facilities that can cause the countryside a vulnerable are .The land use, communication, infrastructural installations and equipment and public welfare, etcetera can be considered by planning of the rural development process as the factors of the physical-based planning, although all these indicators are affected by the economic dimensions of the village. The purpose of this study is to identify the economic problems of the villages of Sorena district in the first stage and then to investigate its relationship with economic resilience. This research method was a combinational one and subsequently phenomenological method was utilized to detect the economic troubles and Pearson correlation coefficient was partially used .The results determined that the economic problems of the villages of the Sorena district are the lack of job security, the lack of diversity in the entrepreneurship, the corruption of the financial and monetary policy, the lack of proper facilities and infrastructure and these problems have a significant relationship with the economic resilience

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