There is an agreement among most of writers and major internatonal development organizations that for developing of local societies the past and present approaches have no success for necessity of Poverty Reduction. And change in approach is necessary. Including efforts for Implementation of sustainability, the focuse is on livelihood. and the advantage of this approach is that people can be proposed. thinking and concentration on livelihood as a means for undrestanding the quality of life and welfare are new approaches of choosing optimized developing strategy among developing societies.In a way that prepares recourses that people can optimize their life with it and enjoy. The main purpose of this research is strategic analysis of sustanaible livelihood faced with ten years term of dominant drought in rural areas. There for this study from the perspective of practical goal and in term of nature is descriptive-analytical. Which pays to checking quintent property of rural residents of central district of Hashtroud county in order to choosing suitable strategy of sustainable livelihood approach. The method of this Study is based on attributive-Questioning. and Delphi analysis tools for choosing items and SWOT technique is for choosing suitable strategy. For this purpose 13 strength points,16 Weakness points,15 treath, 14 opportunity and 18 strategy are represented. For ranking, strength points ,weakness points, threats and opportunities that are assesed by experts, also TOPSIS teqnique are used. According to findings, offensive stategy is diagnosed the best strategy for achieving the sustainable livelihood of case study villages. Also according to TOPSIS technique findings the opportunities in first rank and strength points in the second have the most effects on stability of residents lives. For achieving the sustanable livelihood the offensive strategies should be put in Priority.
asghari saraskanrud S, jalalian H, azizpur F, asghari saraskanrud S. Choosing the Optimized Srtategy of Sustainable Livlihood Faced with Drought by Using Integrated Model SWOT and TOPSIS Case study: Rural areas of central district of Hashtrood. جغرافیایی 2016; 16 (55) :313-339 URL: http://geographical-space.iau-ahar.ac.ir/article-1-2219-en.html