Sustainable Development of Geographical Environment

Sustainable Development of Geographical Environment

Measuring social sustainability in Evin neighborhood from social capital perspective

Document Type : Original article

Authors
Jamileh Tavakolinia
Hasan Mohammadian Mosammam
Parviz Aghayi
Saman Heydari
. Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahid Beheshti University,Tehran, Iran
10.52547/sdge.2.2.133
Abstract
Over the last few decades, social capital has been recognized as one of the most important factors in achieving sustainable development. In this regards, several studies has been done on the assessment of social capital as well as its impact on social sustainability of urban neighborhood. The mentioned issue has always emphasized in Tehran municipality by formal and informal organizations. In this regard, this paper based on descriptive-analytical method aimed to survey and measuring social capital in Evin neighborhood as well as its relationship with social sustainability. In this paper, non-probability sampling is used in both experts and resident’s levels and data collection has been through field and documentary studies. To analyze data, AHP model in the Expert Choice software, one-sample T-test, Pearson correlation and regression in the SPSS software are used. The result shows that the level of social sustainability in Evin neighborhood is medium and also the positive correlation is significant between social sustainability and sustainability.
Keywords
Social sustainability
Social sustainability of neighborhood
Social Capital
Evin neighborhood
Subjects
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