Analysis of resilience of rural areas against natural hazards (case study: Golpayegan county)

Rural areas today face many problems and dilemmas, one of which is the natural hazards that occur suddenly in rural areas. How to deal with these risks has caused the issue of resilience to face risks in many societies today. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the resilience of rural areas against natural hazards in Golpayegan city. The present research is applied-developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of method of work. In the research process, first the theoretical foundations of resilience and its study records were studied. The statistical population of the study consists of rural household heads in Golpayegan city, which according to the 2016 census was equal to 15235 people equal to 5451 households. Cochran's formula was used to select the sample size by which 379 people were randomly selected as the sample size. One-sample t-test and linear regression analysis were used to analyze the research data. The results of one-sample t-test showed that social resilience with an average of 2.831 in unfavorable condition, economic resilience with an average of 2.779 in unfavorable condition, physical-environmental resilience with an average of 3.109 in favorable condition And institutional resilience with an average of 3.101 is in good condition. Also, the results of linear regression analysis showed that natural hazards had the greatest effect on the economic index with a beta coefficient of 0.476 and the least effect with a beta value of 0.187 on the institutional index. Natural hazards also affected the social index with a beta coefficient of 0.347 and the physical-environmental index with a beta coefficient of 0.299.