Responsibility for Good Governance on the Social Sustainability of Rural Households (Case Study: Rural Areas of Kashan)

In recent years, with the importance of the paradigm of sustainable development, the emphasis on the position of the social dimension in the field of sustainability has become doubly important. One of the basic preconditions for achieving sustainable development and one of the most basic criteria of welfare in any society is maintaining and promoting social sustainability. This study is a descriptive-survey one that studies the analysis of structural relationships of social sustainability considering four dimensions based on DFID theoretical foundations and good governance with eight dimensions of UNPD. This research is a survey in terms of practical purpose and the way of collecting data. The statistical population of the study were the heads of rural households in Kashan (N = 364482) which was calculated using the Krejcie-Morgan table, the statistical sample size of 379 people. In order to obtain samples in this study, multi-stage sampling method was used. The obtained Cronbach's alpha value is 0.75 for good governance indicators and 0.72 for social sustainability indicators. SPSS software version 24 and AMOS software were applied for data analysis. Based on the results, the components of good governance and social sustainability with an average of 3.120 and 2.780 in the villages of Kashan, respectively, have been evaluated as average and lower than the desired level, respectively; it had a good fit (RMSEA = 0/022) between the components of good governance and social stability. According to the research findings, improving the indicators of legality, transparency, accountability, efficiency and effectiveness, participation, consensus, justice and accountability are effective in developing the components of social sustainability.