Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 PhD student , Department of Geography and rural planning, Payam e Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Associate professor, Department of Geography and rural planning, Payam e Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
3 professor, Department of Geography and rural planning, Payam e Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
10.30473/psp.2025.75783.2785
Abstract
The present research aims to analyze the factors affecting the inefficiency of rural management and its role in the unbalanced physical development in the vicinity of Tehran metropolis within the rural settlements of Rey County. This research is applied in terms of objective and mixed (hybrid) in terms of methodology. The statistical population of the study was the rural settlements of Rey County, and a sequential mixed sampling method (probability and purposive) was used to determine the sample size. Data collection tools included questionnaires and interviews. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed using factor analysis and qualitative content analysis. The research results indicated, firstly, that the rural management system, as a complex and multidimensional process, has led to the formation of an inefficient rural management system through aspects such as policy pressures and gaps, different intellectual foundations, the inability to control land speculation, lack of inter-sectoral coordination between urban and rural institutions, and weakness in supervising and enforcing regulations in the villages surrounding metropolises. On the other hand, the rural management system, in the form of factors such as policy-planning divergence (with a coefficient of 0.772), territorial-mission divergence (with a coefficient of 0.740), and the inefficiency of laws and directives (with a coefficient of 0.745), has caused this inefficiency and subsequently brought about unbalanced physical development in the vicinity of Tehran metropolis.
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