The Assessing of Regional Sustainability Development in West Azerbaijan Province, With Using Recognition Analysis and Fuzzy Matter-Element

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Article 3, Volume 21, Issue 7, January 2015   

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.22067/erd.v21i7.27953

Author

Mostafa Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh^*

Abstract

Different dimensions and structural complexities of this title are one of essential limitation in present of suitable model. Global interest in the concept of sustainable development (SD) in all countries and the increasing concern about global warming has created a need to assess to an acceptable level of development in our country too. The aims of this research are the assessment and analysis development situation of the townships in West Azerbaijan province ,the rankings of the West Azerbaijan townships related to the sustainable development indicators and the predicting sustainability in West Azerbaijan development process based on selected indicators .This study from the aim point of view is applicable and from the methodology point of view is the descriptive - analytic. The 40 Sustainability indicators in this study groped in six general indicators of economic, social, health, cultural and communications facilities and equipment and evaluated in West Azerbaijan province. In order to comprehensive analysis in this paper, we used of fuzzy AHP model, fuzzy TOPSIS and SPSS for the ranking of township from development indicators point of view. According to the research aims, the variance of selected indicators of sustainable development is evaluated among 17 township of West Azerbaijan provinces with analysis of hierarchical fuzzy. After that the townships of study ranked with regarding to the inequities in the distribution of economic indicators. The findings of this model indicate a brilliant correlation from core to periphery in related to development indicators. It means the Orumieh Township with .923 is the core and the Khoy with .478 is periphery.

Keywords

Regional Sustainability; Azarbaijan; Fuzzy Matter-Element