Explaining Rural Environmental Sustainability Development Model: Rural Areas of Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari Province

Sustainable rural development is based on the long-term behavior of the rurals to ensure future sustainability and productivity of land and resources and focuses on food security, sustainable livelihoods, and environmental protection. Therefore, in providing a model of environmentally friendly rural development and environment should provide the basis for sustainable agricultural development of rurals. The main purpose of this study was to investigate and explain the model of rural environmental sustainability development in rural areas of Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province.The research was applied and its statistical population consisted of 130 assistants in 130 villages of 16 villages from 6 cities of Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province. The sample size was 130 people based on Cochran formula and sampling was done by proportional stratified random sampling. The research tool was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by the opinion of a group of rural sustainable development experts and faculty members of University of Tehran and Tabriz. Also diagnostic validity using the index mean of variance was extracted and the reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. To explain the model of environmental sustainability development of the method Confirmatory Factor analysis was used with LISREL 8.80 software. In the ranking of structures related to the dimensions of sustainable development Rural environment in second-order factor analysis model, "Natural Resources and Ecosystem Managemen", "Energy Management", "Biodiversity Management", "Integrated Pest Management", "Water Management" and "Soil Management" have the most role in factor structure and the most valid type second factors on the first factor are natural resource management and ecosystems with a load factor of 0.93