Village and Development

Village and Development

The Performance of Local Management and Participation of Villagers in the Process of the Spatial Evolution of Rural Settlements with the Mediating Role of the Perceived Effects of Plans and Projects

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
N. shafiei sabet 1
F. Ebrahimipour 2
1 Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography and Landscaping, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 PHD Student, of Geography and Rural Planning, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran. Iran
10.30490/rvt.2021.352970.1309
Abstract
The present study investigates the performance of local government in the implementation of plans and projects and the role of perceived effects of villagers from these plans and projects for their participation in the process of the spatial evolution of rural settlements in the Esfandagheh district. This research is quantitative in scope; Which has studied the effective and influential variables of this research by the descriptive-analytical method and questionnaire tools. The research results indicate a positive and significant relationship between the performance of local government variables and four mediating environmental effects - ecological, social, economic, and physical - infrastructure perceived from plans and projects. Confirmed the relationship between local government and their participation in spatial change with the mediating role of environmental-ecological, social, and physical-infrastructural effects perceived from plans and projects. However, they did not confirm the relationship between local government and their participation in spatial change with the mediating role of perceived economic effects of plans and projects. In other words, the implementation of spatial transformation plans and projects in the economic field has not involved villagers' participation in this field. In general, the research findings showed that local government with the mediating role of environmental-ecological, social, and physical effects of villagers' perceptions of plans and projects on their participation in three dimensions of environmental-ecological, social, and structural spatial evolution. It has had a positive and significant effect.
Keywords
Individual and organizational characteristics
Local management
Local participation
Perceived effects "
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