The Role of Constructional Plans in the Stabilization of Population of Villages Case Study: The waravi District (Fars Province)

The development of villages is one of the main factors of national development. In recent years, villages have been the field of many constructional projects and investments to eradicate poverty from them. Therefore, governments, by conducting plans and developmental projects in the form of short and long term constructional programs, have attempted to reach an ideal environmental condition in rural settlements. Accordingly, governments have spent large sums of money for doing these constructional projects in rural settlements. This paper aims at the explanation of the consequences of these constructional projects in stabilizing the population of rural settlements in waravi district by considering the bulk of the plans and projects conducted there. Considering the documents related to the investment of constructional plans and projects in the villages of waravi district during the Islamic Revolution years (1358-1378), 1270418 million Rails was spent in the villages of the district of which 1202918 was spent widely and 6750 was spent pointedly. It is expected that during this period these investments must have shown their positive effects in the developmental transformation and stabilization of the population in the villages of waravi district. However, the findings of this research show that the correlation between the investments for constructional projects and the stabilization of population in these villages has been very low. In other words, there is not a meaningful relationship between the investments and the stabilization of the population of the villages so much so that from the 15 villages located in this district, 9 villages have had a negative population growth rate and the other villages have had a stark reduction of population growth rate.