An Analysis of the Challenges Facing Sustainable Regional Development Based on Passive Defense Criteria (Case Study: Lavasanat District)

Nowadays, sustainable development is a conceptual region that is affected by the promotion of various economic, social, environmental and managerial indicators, and in order to achieve this concept, the first step is to identify the limitations and challenges facing the region. Security is also considered as the most important prerequisite for achieving sustainable development indicators. Given the importance of the role of security in sustainable regional development, the purpose of this study is to identify the challenges facing sustainable development in Lavasanat region by emphasizing passive defense criteria. In this regard, the method is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of analytical-exploratory nature that in order to analyze the information, has been used the technique of structural equation modeling in Amos software. The statistical population of the study also includes officials, managers and experts in the field of passive defense of Lavasanat region and the sample size is determined based on the targeted Delphi method of 100 people. Findings show that the most important challenges facing sustainable regional development with emphasis on passive defense criteria in Lavasanat region are managerial, environmental, development and socio-cultural variables, respectively, whose coefficient value based on the structural model is 0.81, 0.75, 0.68 and 0.52. Also, among the sub-variables, the most important challenges are related to the variables of lack of integrated management and planning system in the regional management process and failure in inter-organizational communication in order to maximize the participation of related organizations, excessive environmental degradation for profitability, belief and use of traditional models. Acceptance of culture is a new model of management for which the structural model coefficient has been calculated 0.91, 0.89 and 0.83, respectively.