Analyzing and Explaining the Effects of Drought on the Rural Economy During the Period 1375-85 (Case Study: Township Abarkouh)

Drought as a natural hazard is formed and occurred from many years ago, in various countries especially across vast areas of warm and dry. Deleterious effects due to the occurrence of natural hazards has appeared slowly and caused decline and loss of agricultural products, food, economic instability and social and environmental crises are even. Undoubtedly, the first step to coping with drought and its consequences is to have accurate understanding of this phenomenon and its effects on various dimensions, so the required steps to solve this issue can be taken. The method of this research is analytic-descriptive, its nature is from type of applied research and the data collection method is library research. The study population comprised 35 villages of Abarkouh city which by using the classified sampling method eight villages were selected for study. For data analysis, descriptive statistics (including frequency, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (including factor analysis) is used and also to study the drought monitoring, the valid standard of precipitation index (SPI) is applied. The results based on SPI indicate that Abarkuh city has been in drought situation during this decade. In addition, factor analysis discoveries show that the Continues Droughts has brought irreparable economic damage to this city.