Identification and Structural Analysis of the Effect of Key Drivers of Political Ecology on the Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Covid 19; Case Study: Ahvaz Metropolis

Amiri Fahlyiani, Mohammad Reza; Abin, Taha; Setoudeh, Nazanin Zahra

doi:10.22054/qpss.2022.57000.2718

Identification and Structural Analysis of the Effect of Key Drivers of Political Ecology on the Prevalence of Infectious Diseases and Covid 19; Case Study: Ahvaz Metropolis

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Mohammad Reza Amiri fahlyiani ¹

Taha Abin ²

Nazanin zahra Setoudeh ³

¹ Ph.D, Geography & Urban Planning, Shahid Chamran University, Ahvaz, Iran

² LLM, Private Law, Gilan University, Gilan, Iran

³ Ph.D, Economics, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/qpss.2022.57000.2718

Abstract

Cities are a source of creativity and technology and engines for economic growth. cities are also a source of poverty, inequality and environmental health risks. In this study, the coronavirus environmental crisis that humanity is currently suffering from and challenging, in terms of power relations, intervention, appropriation in the urban environment that is the result of political ecology and its effects on urban space with the structural analysis approach is examined. The present study, in terms of applied purpose, has been carried out in terms of survey method at the exploratory level and based on the future research approach. In this study, the drivers of the impact of political ecology through text-mining in valid domestic and foreign documents and the opinion of a group of experts have been investigated. by holding a joint Delphi meeting of experts, the impact of the identified propulsions on each other has been weighed and discussed. Then the position of each propellant was checked through "Mikomak" software. The results indicate that the drivers of income deficit, income inequality, marginalization and social inequality, have been identified as key effective forces of political ecology by experts that are effective in the future spread of infectious diseases in the city.

Keywords

Future Studies

Structural Analysis

Political Ecology

Infectious Diseases

Ahvaz Metropolis

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