Assessment and Classification of Environmental Problems Based on Sustainable Development Indexes (Case Study: Cities of Yazd Province)

Spread of urbanization lead to increasing the environmental problems for urban residents that it hasn't agreement with sustainable development purposes. The aim of this paper is assessment and survey of environmental problems in cities of Yazd province base on urban sustainable development indexes with emphasize on the environmental aspects. Thus, methodology is applicable -developmental and statistical population is 24 cities of Yazd province. Based on last political division in 2011, Yazd province has 11 cities, 24 town, 20 section and 51 rural districts. Based on statistical data in 2011, the city of Yazd with population 489152 persons, has about 7 Equal population than the second Meybod city in the province. Survey of environmental problems in Yazd province shows that rapid developmental in industrial fields raised from economical needs and increasing of population in urban regions. In fact in the Yazd province region, most of industrial installation and plants has been built in city of Yazd and they (plants and industrial installation) are important factor for environmental pollution in Yazd. Pollution from slaughter-houses and mines operations is some other environmental problems in Yazd. Rubbishes contaminate underground water in several ways. Analysis base on mean cluster levelling k show that cities of Yazd, Meybod, Ardakan, Aghda, Marvast and Zarch with 71.35 percent of urban population are unstable cities and cities of Shahedieh, Mehrdasht, Hamiidia, Khezrabad and Ahmadabad with 6.99 percent of urban population are stable cities. Spearman coefficient also shows that there is high difference between amount of population and environmental instability. Finally, following solutions are presented for reducing the environmental problems in cities of Yazd province and get to urban sustainable development.