JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
Year:2010 | Volume:14 | Issue:17|Papers Count:8

The current study intends to examine and recognize the performance of information and communication technology (ITC) in rural development to find strengths and weaknesses of ICT offices in rural regions and, also, to consider their performance. The research method is applied - developmental and methodology is documental, analytical and survey. To complete available information, questionnaires were used. The population of this research includes residents of Kabootarabad, Mediseh, Mehregan and Sin villages belonged to Isfahan, Lanjan, Falavarjan and Barkhar and Meymeh townships, respectively. As to their population of about 6139, based on Cochran formula, sample size estimated equaled 236 individuals. To test hypotheses, Chi Square, T. Student and ANOVA were done by the use of SPSS. Findings indicate that several factors such as, the extent of people’s awareness of services available in ICT offices, the idea of people about these services in rural regions and the way of their management have key role in the success of ICT offices. Therefore, it is recommended that communication infrastructures be reinforced and ICT offices be well equipped in order to offer services to rural regions, encourage villagers to use virtual modes for decreasing intermediation and unnecessary trips to cities.

Imbalance between internal and external parameters is one of the main obstacles in national development. The imbalance exists not only at national level but also in provinces and regional levels. Prerequisite to regional planning and reducing imbalances, is position Identification of regions with respect to development. In this research, with the aim of pointing out imbalances among counties of East Azerbaijan Province, 61 development indicators in educational, socio - cultural, population - economical, remedial - sanitary, physical - infrastructural and agricultural sectors, have been extracted using "factor analysis" method. Taxonomic method is also used as input data and finally cluster analysis has been used for grouping counties. Studies showed that out of the total 19 counties, one county is developed, 9 counties partly developed, 6 counties less developed, and 3 counties are deprived. The East Azerbaijan Province consists of western and eastern parts which are more developed and less developed respectively. This imbalance is the reflection and the result of environmental factors, political economy, incompetence of spatial planning system and expanding the growth pole (Tabriz) in recent years.

World's urban population, especially in developing countries is facing increasing growth and its consequences can be seen in physical expansion of cities and numerous socio-economic problems. Shahrekord the center of Char Mahal Bakhtiari province - is one of the cities which has had increasing population growth in recent decades, and has faced considerable physical development. In this paper, Shahrekord’s spatial expansion during the time period of 29 years, i.e.1355-1384, was studied and modeled. To do this, eight independent variables including height of land, slope, aspect of slope, land use / land cover, distance from the main roads, distance from the city center, distance from high education centers and distance from industrial areas as well as logistic regression model in Geographic Information System environment (ArcGis software, version 9.2) and SPSS software were used. The required information was obtained through library resources and different maps. The findings showed that logistic regression model can model Shahrekord’s spatial expansion with relatively high accuracy (overall accuracy 89%). The map obtained from this method determined the areas with spatial expansion probability based on past trend and it also presented suitable areas for future development. Based on this map, northern areas, northwestern and north eastern areas of Shahrekord are the most suitable areas for future expansion of this city.

Today in the world, tourism industry has been considered as one aspect of perfect socioeconomic development of the countries and its planning essentiality has been received great attention. Compared with its negative aftermath, the positive effects of the industry on national economic body are so remarkable that it casts no doubt upon the engagement to develop this sector. The present research is aimed to study the role of tourism in regional development of Kalporgan. Reviewing the infrastructures and potentials of the region, There was studied the feasibility of tourism development in the area. A descriptive - analytic methodology was used in the research, field studies and librarian sources were utilized as well. The results indicated that enforcing management and offering a general regional planning can provide Kalporgan with tourism development bases and consequently regional development because it has natural and monumental attractions and potentials like ceramics which has a long record in the region.

As a result of its geographical position, Iran has long been a site of accommodation for nomad tribes particularly those entering into the country through northern and north-eastern borders. Iran has experienced this phenomenon over the course of its history acknowledging the consequent primary social, cultural and political demonstrations of nomadism. Therefore, Iran is regarded as one of the most important nomad loci in the world. Over the course of Iran's history, tribes and ethnic groups have played a significant role in safeguarding the borders against intruders. Except for the Pahlavi regime, most of the Iranian imperial dynasties have had nomadic origins. Therefore, nomads used to play a significant role in the stability or instability of central governments. The residence of nomads along the borders has always been a challenge to the central governments as to how to control them. Sometimes, the nomads, whose lives hinge on migration, crossed the national borders into the neighboring countries, resulting in a serious conflict between the two or more neighbors. This study aims at investigating the role of Turkmen nomads and tribes in the development of Iran's north-eastern political borders. This study draws on a descriptive-analytic method using document and historical sources. The findings of the present study suggest that until a large portion of the Pahlavi dynasty tribes constitute the country's population and nomads as well as moving winter and summer, which caused the nomads of central government control during the decline of state power is unstable. In fact, prior to the established boundaries of northeastern Iran, and transport Turkmen tribes in the border of Iran and former Soviet countries in the form of summer and winter hand tribes within the borders of former Soviet countries of Iran and factors such as unpaid taxes by nomads Both migrate to the neighboring countries are caused by these factors are nomadism caused a delay in the development of political borders in this part of the country.

This survey aims to study the students’ movement to a deprived province in Iran. It is going to find the factors affecting their motivations for migration. In a pilot study, it was found that there are three factors that have had the most impact on students’ movement. In this line, three factors that have had the most impact on students’ motivations for migration examined. For those who were going to continue their study in a higher degree, a high academic ranking of the university in the host city assumed to be an important factor for attracting and extending the length of their residence in the city. Many studies (Mol 1971, Bouma 1994, Hugo 1994, 2004, Wooden 1994, Western et al., 1998, Fletcher 1999, Behrouzinia 2001, Khoo et al.2005 etc.) found that not only there is a strong relationship between the ‘length of residence’ in the host society and employment, also this can increase the chance of decision-making to live permanently in the society. The chance of employment in a host society is another factor that has been considered here. Many studies (as mentioned earlier) have shown that this is an important factor to extend the length of residence in a host society. A number of studies (Bouma 1994, Behrouzinia 2001 etc.) also showed that choosing spouse from a host society can extent the period of residence in the society. This encouraged the study to choose the chance of marriage in the host society as the third factor. The study showed that there is a strong relationship between the three factors and the length of residence in the host society. A comparison between the factors showed that the factor of employment has had the most impact on the students’ motivation for migration. Concerning the fact that 87.9 percent of the students who were interviewed aimed to continue their study to higher degree, the factor of academic ranking of the university was more important than the factor of marriage. It was shown that the factor of marriage had less impact on the students’ migration compared with other two factors.

In this research, first, errors in Jahrom city base map in Autocad format, was corrected to be used in GIS environment, then, different maps including city districts, proposed divisions, density and networks maps were prepared. Buffering and overlay methods were then used to create maps of faults and seismic points around Jahrom city. Exact distances of these points were extracted. After dividing city to 29 regions, necessary information with regards to existing standard indices of urban vulnerability including materials used and their strength and so on, were collected and input to a GIS. Using weighting, index overly methods, suitable outputs of Jahron urban physical vulnerability against earthquake were generated. With the use of these maps and information derived from them, necessary planning with respect to natural disaster mitigation (especially earthquake) could be possible.