Analysis of environmental sustainability in rural areas(Case study: central part of Behshahr city

One of the important and fundamental issues in deepening and expanding the field of science and local-regional development policy is the issue of sustainable development of rural settlements.Therefore, considering the characteristics of rural areas and the need for sustainable development, rural sustainability analysis is key to achieving sustainable development. In this regard, due to the lack of a suitable study of sustainability in villages in the central part of Behshahr city, this study aims to identify and explain the development trends in the environmental structure of rural settlements and the position of environmental components in the sustainability of rural settlements in central Behshahr 2019 is concentrated. The research method is descriptive-analytical and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population includes all residents of villages with more than 50 households in the central part of Behshahr city. Rural households were selected by "systematic random" method and sample villages were selected by "cluster random" method, of which 11 villages were selected.In order to analyze the data, statistical methods of Phi and Kramer test, Pearson correlation coefficient and non-statistical barometric techniques and radar method were used.The results show that environmental sustainability in mountainous villages with a score of 0.532 is at an average level, plain villages with a score of 0.488 are at the level of potentially weak instability and in mountainous villages with a score of 0.353 at an unstable level.Also, the level of environmental sustainability of the villages has a decreasing trend with distance from the city center, but there is no significant difference between the two components of distance and natural location with the level of environmental sustainability of the studied villages.