STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM USING SOWT ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY: GANDOMAN DISTRICT, BOROOJEN TOWNSHIP)

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GOLSHIRI ESFAHANI Z.; SARAEI M.H.

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Journal: JOURNAL OF RURAL RESEARCH Year:2011 | Volume:1 | Issue:4 Page(s): 73-98

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STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM USING SOWT ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY: GANDOMAN DISTRICT, BOROOJEN TOWNSHIP)

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GOLSHIRI ESFAHANI Z. | SARAEI M.H. | Issue Writer Certificate

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STRATEGIC PLANNINGQ2

SWOT MODELQ2

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTQ2

ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMQ3

VILLAGEQ2

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Introduction Continuing environmental crisis, human was aware of the necessity for revising the methods of dealing with environment during the development. Therefore, changing the development paradigm from classical to modern, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT and environmental issues have become the major pillars of development and achieve SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT depends on the complete recognition of environment and natural resources as well as accurate and strategically planning in this regard.Methodology STRATEGIC PLANNING of the best methods to achieve the goals could be considered.This paper was conducted to determine the development goals objectives of rural ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM in Gandoman County, Borojen Township in a 10- year perspective. SWOT Analysis Model was utilized for STRATEGIC PLANNING.According to the strengths and weaknesses (capacities and resources) as well as the opportunities and treats (external factors and effective process), the invasive model as an effective model for environmental system has been adopted, and based on it, the strategies and quantities preferment goals have been determined and the coherence between them have been established.Results In order to analyze the rural ENVIRONMENT SYSTEMs in Gandoman County, first of all, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the system were identified as follows.Strengths; having ecotourism potential and attractions, existence of two permanent rivers, numerous springs, suitable aquifers, high quality of water resources and mineral water springs and a number of Qantas, being moisture more than half of the year, there are nine plain rural for Agricultural Development and highland rural for horticultural development, existence of wild medicinal plants in the region, etc.Weakness; lack of Watershed activities, the risk of water erosion and the natural eruption, earthquake and flood, law quality of health centers, many activities against natural disasters, environmental and sound pollution of gas station, surface water and groundwater pollution, and landscape pollution because of deficient system of waste collection and landfill.Opportunities; increased consumption of mineral water producers and development policies in the category of mineral waters in Iran, suitable markets for medicinal plants, increasing importance of tourism, the policies of natural hazards and detrimental health pollution, existence divers germ plasma and crop varieties in the country and the existence of oil and gas resources in the province Threats; being surface water management outside the province, negative balance of underground waters, poor crisis management, lack of proper and complete implementation of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT policies, shortage of funds for dams, watershed management and construction of irrigation networks and deficient systems of waste collection and landfill in rural areas.Conclusion It should be noted that internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) of the status have been extracted from reviewing the regional ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM through the Library Reviews documents and field studies as well; and the external factors of region (opportunities and threats) also have been extracted from reviewing the documents of this field in the country as well as the province.The significance of coefficient of each internal and external factor was calculated by software Expert Choice based on the Delphi method and according to experts using paired comparisons.The basis of paired comparisons was Thomas L. Saaty importance coefficient (rather identical (important 1) until quite preferable (important 9)). The important coefficienties were standardized through divided by average (total coefficients standard for internal and external factors is equal to one).To determine the final weight, a rate of points between each strength, opportunitiy, weakness and threat, a rate of points between 1 to 4 based on the importance and final weight of internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) was calculated 3.08 and external factors (opportunities and threats) was calculated 3.53.Finally, these weights were pointed in SWOT diagram and aggressive pattern was determined as an effective model for environmental systems of Gandoman. This pattern for achieve the main objective (sustainable environmental development in the region) selects the strategies that apply the available regional strengths for using the identified opportunities. Therefore, sustainable environmental development strategies of Gandoman County are as determined as follows: - Management development, conservation, restoration and sustainable exploitation of natural resources as well as environmental ones; - Developing public participation in a development process, conservation, restoration and sustainable exploitation of natural resources and environmental, - Mineral Water Industry Development, - Developing and strengthening the tourism industry with emphasis on ecotourism and rural tourism, - Improving crisis management in order to prevent the consequences of natural disasters and deal with it them VILLAGEs, - Reducing hazards and detrimental to human health and the environment pollution.Obviously, in order to achieve the determined strategies and according to the main goal, objectives should be defined. These objectives in 3 levels, internals are periods such as: long term (10 years), medium term (five years) and short-term (2-1 years) goals. The short-term objectives include increasing of public awareness on natural disasters, promotion of rural outreach skills, safety principles in building new homes, familiarize farmers with the principles of sustainable agriculture, identify species of medicinal plants in the County pasture, preventing the indiscriminate cattle grazing in pastures, improving exploitation model of water resources, inhibition of seasonal surface water, especially flowing waters, identifying the potentials of tourism in the region, familiarizing farmers with the importance of Aquifers and Watershed Management, predispose for public participation in forestry activities, improving knowledge and skills of VILLAGErs to preserve watersheds and aquifers, the identification qualities and quantities capabilities of regional water to develop mineral water industries, studies about sanitary waste collection and burial in the rural area.

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GOLSHIRI ESFAHANI, Z., & SARAEI, M.H.. (2011). STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM USING SOWT ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY: GANDOMAN DISTRICT, BOROOJEN TOWNSHIP). JOURNAL OF RURAL RESEARCH, 1(4), 73-98. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/180872/en

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GOLSHIRI ESFAHANI Z., SARAEI M.H.. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM USING SOWT ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY: GANDOMAN DISTRICT, BOROOJEN TOWNSHIP). JOURNAL OF RURAL RESEARCH[Internet]. 2011;1(4):73-98. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/180872/en

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Z. GOLSHIRI ESFAHANI, and M.H. SARAEI, “STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM USING SOWT ANALYSIS (CASE STUDY: GANDOMAN DISTRICT, BOROOJEN TOWNSHIP),” JOURNAL OF RURAL RESEARCH, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 73–98, 2011, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/180872/en

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