%0 Journal Article %T Content Analyses of Rural Sustainable Development Position in After Islamic Reveloution Plans %J Human Geography Research %I University of Tehran %Z 2008-6296 %A Rouknedin Eftekhary, Abdol-Reza %A Sojasi Qeidari, Hamdallah %A Sadeghloo, Tahereh %D 2013 %\ 09/23/2013 %V 45 %N 3 %P 19-38 %! Content Analyses of Rural Sustainable Development Position in After Islamic Reveloution Plans %K Sustainable Development %K Rural Development %K Development plans %K Content analysis %K Evaluation model %K EFQM %R 10.22059/jhgr.2013.35243 %X Extended AbstractIntroductionChanges in internal and external environment, especially in global arena, includingglobalization, information society, make constantly rural communities faced with threats andopportunities. Utilization of these opportunities and commuting the threats into opportunities isjust possible by a suitable planning. In fact, the vulnerability of rural societies may be resultedfrom natural and unnatural phenomena (humanity, technical and managemental issues) ineconomic, social and environmental phases. This may introduce developmental gap amongsocities and might be resulted from macro planning and management of rural araea. In otherwords, the developmental gap in rural socities indicates survey lines available in actual situationof rural in macro (national) planning process because of sustainability. This results in a lag ofnational developmental process based on new paradigm. Therefore, appropriate plans andstrategies based on key principles of sustainable development can be effective. By a strategicapproach to plans and their flexibility it would be possible to convert threats into opportunityand also introduce sustainable rural development as a purpose of planning for development. Thepurpose of the plans is to enhance the industrial sector of economy for high technology capableto export, such as the electronics industry, consumer products industry, industrial processing ofnon-timber forest products, construction materials and chemical industry. Key industrial areaswill be established gradually along the main communication routes. The villages will be  developed for traditional production with an aim to increase employment and exports.Accordingly, rural managers and planners in different levels of decision making, by continuedassessment of macro and micro development plans, could adopt goals and principle ofsustainable development with current condition of rural communities. In this framework,evaluation of the position of rural planning in national planning system, based on sustainabledevelopment principles and spatial justice in economic, social and environmental dimensionover national territory, is inevitable requisite for sustainable rural development management andplanning.MethodologyIn this paper, we first tried with Descriptive – depletion methodology to extract the principlesand theoretical base of rural sustainable development planning and its indicators for contentanalysis measurement after the Islamic Revolution development plans in Framework oforganizational excellence Evaluation model (EFQM). Result of the assessment in this method,by traceing and analysis of strengthes and improving the fields of institute structure (Here is thesame village) that suggest improvement of planning process and its function it is possible tomodify the future path. The EFQM Excellence Model is a non-prescriptive framework based onnine criteria. Five of these are ‘Enablers’ and four are ‘Results’. The ‘Enabler’ criteria coverwhat an organisation does. The ‘Results’ criteria cover what an organisation achieves. ‘Results’are caused by ‘Enablers’ and ‘Enablers’ are improved using feedback from ‘Results’. TheModel, which recognises how many approaches to achieving sustainable excellence in allaspects of performance is available, is based on the premise that: Excellent results with respectto Performance, Customers, People and Society are achieved through Leadership driving Policyand Strategy, that is delivered through People. Other criteria are related to result and function.To use this method, there are various ways such as questionnairy method, workshop method,metrix method and preform method. In this paper the questionnairy method have beeb selected.This method is similar to the content analysis method, because based on available document invarious fields of empowerment makers this could obtain the results to which access is justposible in ideal condition. Then, 14 questionnaires from 30 designed questionnaires completedby experts and elites in rural development and planning field have been applied as the base ofanalysis.Results and DiscussionResults of the analyses indicate that consideration to rural sustainable development principleshave increased in plans after Islamic Revolution, especially in 4th development plan. But, thisattention to sustainable development based on EFQM model, in all dimensions is lower than theaverage. This fact indicates that enabling factor is not correctly known among policymakers andplanners for sustainable institutionalization, and executive management does not have sufficientcapacity for sustainable implementation.   %U https://jhgr.ut.ac.ir/article_35243_f3cfe0221f3a765463c04ccf8c258d87.pdf