Compilation of scenarios and providing effective strategies for future social resilience (Case study: Ahwaz metropolis)

Document Type : Research Article (Applied - Development)

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1 Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

2 Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

3 Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran.

4 PhD in Geography and Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahwaz, Iran

Abstract

Objective: The present study, with a futuristic approach, will elaborate effective scenarios in the future of social resilience and provide effective strategies in this field.  This research is applied in terms of its purpose and in terms of a combination of documentary and
Methods: survey methods and in terms of its nature, based on the new method of futuristic, analytic and exploratory science that has been carried out using a combination of quantitative and qualitative models. The statistical population of this research for the urban resilience Future Studies is of 45 urban experts who have been questioned and the results of their review have been used to identify the key factors for shaping social resilience in the future. Deployed forces are characterized by a Delphi method, and then these factors are prioritized and the most crucial determinants are determined by importance and uncertainty, and for future scenarios, the Micmac software has been used.
Results:The results show in the resilience scatter diagram status variable and unstable social system prevailing Ahwaz social resilience. Finally, out of the 54 factors mentioned above, after examining the extent and which these factors affect each other and on the future status of these settlements in the output of Micmac software.
Conclusion:Theten key factors with the highest direct and indirect impact on the future of Ahwaz's social resilience were identified: Income status, boycott, poverty, urban management weakness, increased migration, financial incentives, unemployment, reduced oil exports, worn out texture, weak institutions that play the most role in the future of social resilience in the Ahwaz metropolitan.

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Journal of Urban Social Geography
Volume 6, Issue 2 - Serial Number 15
September 2019
Pages 255-273

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  • Receive Date: 10 March 2019
  • Revise Date: 29 July 2019
  • Accept Date: 21 September 2019

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