The study of the role of the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran Municipality on bio-security of citizens (Case study of Tehran Municipality District 3)
Abstract
Cities are live entity, resuscitative, active and created by social needs cultural and ecological of human and it is
obvious that everything that is formed and made in city is based on expression of human demands and “the new right of
all people to live and have a fundamental right”. Humans are the main topic of any developments and having the health
and physical and mental abilities as well as having a healthy environment for living consider as part of their basic rights.
At one time people consider Municipal as a service organization. But in recent years this institution, in addition to the
servicing have shown special attention to components of the social and cultural life of the city, in order to improve the
quality of life and reduce environmental pollution. Meanwhile, the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran has
performed different proceedings to reduce pollution (air and noise) and create a healthy environment for the citizens by
providing better services and developing a matrix approach to urban culture with the aim of making culture in protecting
ecology and reduction the ecological threats, combating with ecological pollution (air and noise) and improving the
public transport system without traffic and pollution and making culture in order to public hygiene and cleanliness
including waste management, with Synergistic of internal and external interactions influencing civic culture.
In this paper, initially, we consider opinions of citizens and officials and experts of the deputy of cultural and social
affairs of Tehran regarding performance of Tehran Municipality as an institution of Culture Makers and social that is
involved in providing biological security including Waste management and combating with ecological pollution (air and
noise) and then the views of both groups were compared with each other. In this study, biological security is one of the
characteristics of social security, in the sense of establishing security for groups and individuals by providing a succulent
green city and ecologically sustainable and cohesive with a suitable structure for residence, activity and leisure benefiting
from public transport system with good quality for life without traffic and pollution that have been implemented as one of
the basic rights of citizenship. The statistical population of this research, survey consisted of two groups. The first group,
citizens of district 3 of Tehran Municipality The population size is 345 people. The random sampling and stratified from
different localities and regional areas and the statistical population size of the second group is 84 people of officials and
experts of the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran regarding performance of Tehran Municipality who
participated in the survey plan, have been selected according to total counting. However, the survey is a descriptive and
exploratory. The measuring instrument of this research was questionnaire and in descriptive statistics from frequency
tables of findings, central index and average and in the inferential statistics section is used of the Kolmogorov – Smirnov
tests, one sample t-test and a sample sign test, Friedman ANOVA, t test for independent samples. The findings indicate
that there are significant differences between citizen’s opinion and opinion of staff and Municipal officials regarding the
function of this department/deputy and staffs and officials of the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran regarding
performance of Tehran Municipality has favorable opinion than their performance in securing biodiversity and its
components. This may indicate that there is a gap between the viewpoints of the two groups. At the end, based on the
findings of the study, it’s proposed that with making culture, notification, educating citizens regarding how to movement
the road and avoid causing air pollution and traffic congestion and inconvenience to other citizens and as well as
improved public transport can be contributed to the promotion of biological security of citizens.
obvious that everything that is formed and made in city is based on expression of human demands and “the new right of
all people to live and have a fundamental right”. Humans are the main topic of any developments and having the health
and physical and mental abilities as well as having a healthy environment for living consider as part of their basic rights.
At one time people consider Municipal as a service organization. But in recent years this institution, in addition to the
servicing have shown special attention to components of the social and cultural life of the city, in order to improve the
quality of life and reduce environmental pollution. Meanwhile, the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran has
performed different proceedings to reduce pollution (air and noise) and create a healthy environment for the citizens by
providing better services and developing a matrix approach to urban culture with the aim of making culture in protecting
ecology and reduction the ecological threats, combating with ecological pollution (air and noise) and improving the
public transport system without traffic and pollution and making culture in order to public hygiene and cleanliness
including waste management, with Synergistic of internal and external interactions influencing civic culture.
In this paper, initially, we consider opinions of citizens and officials and experts of the deputy of cultural and social
affairs of Tehran regarding performance of Tehran Municipality as an institution of Culture Makers and social that is
involved in providing biological security including Waste management and combating with ecological pollution (air and
noise) and then the views of both groups were compared with each other. In this study, biological security is one of the
characteristics of social security, in the sense of establishing security for groups and individuals by providing a succulent
green city and ecologically sustainable and cohesive with a suitable structure for residence, activity and leisure benefiting
from public transport system with good quality for life without traffic and pollution that have been implemented as one of
the basic rights of citizenship. The statistical population of this research, survey consisted of two groups. The first group,
citizens of district 3 of Tehran Municipality The population size is 345 people. The random sampling and stratified from
different localities and regional areas and the statistical population size of the second group is 84 people of officials and
experts of the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran regarding performance of Tehran Municipality who
participated in the survey plan, have been selected according to total counting. However, the survey is a descriptive and
exploratory. The measuring instrument of this research was questionnaire and in descriptive statistics from frequency
tables of findings, central index and average and in the inferential statistics section is used of the Kolmogorov – Smirnov
tests, one sample t-test and a sample sign test, Friedman ANOVA, t test for independent samples. The findings indicate
that there are significant differences between citizen’s opinion and opinion of staff and Municipal officials regarding the
function of this department/deputy and staffs and officials of the deputy of cultural and social affairs of Tehran regarding
performance of Tehran Municipality has favorable opinion than their performance in securing biodiversity and its
components. This may indicate that there is a gap between the viewpoints of the two groups. At the end, based on the
findings of the study, it’s proposed that with making culture, notification, educating citizens regarding how to movement
the road and avoid causing air pollution and traffic congestion and inconvenience to other citizens and as well as
improved public transport can be contributed to the promotion of biological security of citizens.
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