Author

• Abbass Saeedi

Abstract

Sustainable rural development is a process that will facilitate and encourage the promotion of rural life through acceptable activities in harmony with the environment. Thus, rural sustainable development includes various aspects, but preparation of sufficient structures in 4 backgrounds could facilitate the course; these are: physical-ecologic, social-cultural, political-economic, and spatial. Spatial integration, in the context of a systemic approach, considers the rural settlements as open systems in various scales, namely spot, local, area, regional, and national levels.Thus, each rural settlement is in a dynamic process, not only in terms of interactions between different inner components and forces, but also interacts with other settlement similar systems (settlements, both rural and urban). In the meantime, it is of decisive significance manifests in features and capabilities of the system to establish an interactive relationship with policies, planning and sufficient funds. On the other hand, with regard to new approaches in applied geography and the role of communities in producing different spaces, many of the goals of spatial planning and sustainability aspects are considered coherent.
This article tries to show, any sustainability in the process of rural development requires an integrated approach based on terms of structural-functional dynamics in the context of spatial paradigm.

Keywords

• Rural-urban Integrity
• Sustainable Rural Development
• Rural Constellations
• Local Networks
• Regional Networks