Rural resilience with emphasis on climatic aspects in Nimroz County

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Nimroz Education

2 University of Zabol

10.22034/mpsh.2025.516728.1056
Abstract
Nimroz County, with its arid and semi-arid climate, experiences numerous challenges, including water scarcity, frequent droughts, sand and dust storms, and severe temperature fluctuations. In these conditions, rural resilience is of great importance as the ability of local communities to cope with these challenges and adapt to climate change. Accordingly, the present study aimed to investigate rural resilience with an emphasis on climate aspects in Nimroz County. This study is based on a combination of descriptive-analytical methods and is based on library, documentary, and survey studies, in which the statistical population of the study consisted of households living in 18 sample villages, of which 351 people were randomly selected as the sample size based on the Cochran formula. Data analysis was performed with the help of SPSS, ArcGIS, and Expert Choice software, using the ARAS model and the Mann-Whitney and Friedman tests. The results of the study show that there is a significant difference in the level of resilience between the studied villages in Nimroz County; so that the villages of Faqir Lashkari, Aliabad Piran, and Cherak have the highest level of resilience, and the villages of Kang Piran, Ghaemabad, and Kamali have the lowest level of resilience. The results of the Mann-Whitney U test also confirm that these differences are statistically significant.