Winter 2021. Vol 11. Num 4 646 * Corresponding Author: Teymour Amar, PhD Address: Department of Geography, Faculty of Humani tes, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran. Tel: +98 (911) 1385503 E-mail: amar@iaurasht.ac.ir Research Paper Analysis of Social Components Afectng the Resilience of Rural Setlements to Floods (Case Study: Villages in the East of Guilan Province) 1. PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanites, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran. 2. Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanites, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran. 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Humanites, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran. Elham Hossein Nia 1 , * Teymour Amar 2 , Eisa Pourramzan 3 Resilience plays an important role in empowering rural communites against food risk. Therefore, resil- ience has been paid atenton to as a suitable strategy mitgatng vulnerability and crisis management of natural disasters in many countries. The present study aims to analyze the social components afectng the resilience of rural areas in the east of Guilan province against food hazard. The present research is an applied research and data was collected using a descriptve-analytcal method based on documentary sources and feld studies (questonnaire). The study sample consisted of 379 householders in rural areas which were selected by Cochran's method. Then, one sample T-test was used to prove the signifcance and generalizability of the results, and coefcient of correlaton and regression method were used to an- alyze the data and the efect of social components on resilience. The results show that the component of collectve partcipaton has the greatest impact on improving the resilience of rural communites to the components of place atachment, social trust, and knowledge. Finally, resilience scores from the study area indicate that the villages of Eshkevar Sofa and Divshal are at the lowest level and the villages of Dahgah, Daryasar, and Kojid are at the highest level in terms of social components of resilience to foods. A B S T R A C T Key words: Analysis, Resilience, Rural Communi- tes, Flood, East of Guilan Province Received: 09 July 2020 Accepted: 18 Oct. 2020 Extended Abstract 1. Introduction ankind has always faced natural haz- ards and suffered from them throughout history. Thus, resilience to natural di- sasters is a way of strengthening com- munities by using their potential. In general, although precipitation is low in many parts of Iran, in most regions, annual precipitation can happen overnight. This factor, along with the steep slopes of the mountainous regions that make up our rural communities, has made fooding a major concern in almost all seasons. Since rural areas generally have the greatest vulnerability and receive minimal attention during these natural disas- ters, such as the damage caused by the fooding of rural areas in the east of Guilan province from 2016 to 2019, M Citation: Hossein Nia, E., Amar, T., & Pourramzan, E. (2021). [Analysis of Social Components Affecting the Resilience of Rural Settlements to Floods (Case Study: Villages in the East of Guilan Province) (Persian)]. Journal of Rural Research, 11(4), 646-661, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.22059/jrur.2020.305926.1529 : http://dx.doi.org/ 10.22059/jrur.2020.305926.1529 Use your device to scan and read the artcle online Copyright © 2021, Journal of Rural Research. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-noncommer- cial 4.0 International License which permits copy and redistribute the material just in noncommercial usages, provided the original work is properly cited.