Investigation of cultural solution for sustaining Guilan environment (Experts vision

Subject Areas : Journal of Cultural Management

Amena ebrahimi ¹ , Reza Masoumi Rad ² , Fatemeh Bratlou ³

1 - MSc, Cultural Management, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in Sociology, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Literature & Humanities, University of Guilan, Iran. (Corresponding Author): [e-mail]
3 - Ph.D., Cultural Management and Planning, Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies

Received: 2017-01-18 Accepted : 2018-06-17 Published : 2018-07-23

Keywords: cultural solutions. Guilan, Environment, Awareness, Culture,

Abstract :

Environmental issues have been recognized as one of the main human threats in 21th century. Most of the environmental issues are due of human behavior and these behaviors aren’t done in vacuum and are affected by different kinds of contextual determinants, so that considering awareness, knowledge, being responsible sense and also way of individual confrontation to environments is important in studying of cultural solutions sustaining of environment. Introducing of cultural solutions of Guilan figures for sustaining of environment is the main aim of the essay. Aim of current research is functional, its method of gathering data and information is respectively description-survey and field study. Organizations running cultural policies in Guilan and their operation are related to sustain Guilan environment are Statistical population of research. Based on nonprobability sampling were selected and interviewed 17 experts and trustees of Guilan environmental issues. Finding show that developing level of environmental awareness, knowledge and insight of society and also requirement to commitment to environmental standards and indexes in laws and regulations, development programs and land use planning are the main cultural solutions for sustaining of environment. Other findings show that Guilan environmental situation has been deteriorated rather than last three decades.