The impact of environmental changes caused by the thermal power plant of Tabriz on the biological and social aspects of the people of Esfahlan village (case study: Gardens)

After the industrial revolution, following the increase of human interaction with nature and its exploitation, sociologists' attention to the natural environment increased in terms of its social consequences, and later environmental sociology became the research field of many sociologists. This article deals with the effects of the Tabriz thermal power plant establishment on the social life of the people of Esfahalan village with a qualitative method of in-depth interview and observation method, looking at the conflict of values approach and the production treadmill concept. The question of the research is what changes the presence of the power plant has brought about in the social life of the village people. The purpose of the research is to find the factors that caused the adverse environmental and social changes for the village. By understanding these factors, the bio-social threats of these changes, whose source is the thermal power plant, can be reduced. The necessity of research goes back to the necessity of maintaining natural resources (gardens) in villages. So that the result of the research shows that Tabriz thermal power plant has had the most adverse effect on the natural resources of the village (gardens) in the first place. In the second place, these changes have a socio-economic aspect.