A STUDY ON THE SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY USING FACTOR ANALYSIS CASE STUDY: TEHRAN PROVINCE

Abstract

Sustainability is a concept which focuses on preserving resources (human, natural, social and economic) along-with intergeneration justices. Different dimensions of sustainable development (ecological, social, and economic preserving these dimensions in a way to provide the needs of current generation and to eliminate the damage threatening the capabilities of future generation. Influenced by the different policies and processes during recent decades, our rural-urban community has extremely changed. But evidences show that the rural-urban community moves toward in sustainability. This hasn't had positive impact on the changes of current society and
can negatively influence different social orders at present and future time. Descriptive-analyze methodology was used and the indicators were classified on the basic social aspect of sustainable development. The rate of sustainability were evaluated using statistical models (Factor Analysis), the result of which show in sustainability of the rural-urban in many of sustainable indicators