Human Geography Research
Year:2011 | Volume:43 | Issue:76|Papers Count:10

Introduction Urban population growth as one of the main features of the 20th century is leading to concentration of resources, funds, facilities and urban services and utilities in major cities.Physical and social development of cities and their transformation to heterogeneous social, cultural, and population centers have led to the increased rate of abnormalities in cities particularly in central areas, and to quick growth of heterogeneous population, social problems and economic poverty causing the emergence of urban damage and anomalous and unbridled malignant growth of abnormalities in cities. The city of Yazd is the most populous city of Yazd Province due to having occupational and welfare attractions as well as administrative concentration. Considering the rapid spread of urbanization in recent years in Yazd, the city has faced with massive uncontrolled immigration, and these floods of immigrants have settled there.Consequently, factors such as cultural diversity, misidentification of the immigrants and their lack of sense of belongingness to the new environment and new community, and lack of commitment to values have caused social deviances, cultural disintegration and occurrence of social damage in Yazd.

Introduction: From long centuries, people have been following a good life and for this intention they have been trying to improve their lives as well as their environmental conditions, to become enable to receive the uppermost benefit. from their talents and abilities but the real problem have always been the quality of good life. The definitions, models, and subjective and objective different indicators were posed among a vast range of fields, but providing a global definition, identify appropriate indicators and also measuring quality of life have been remained as a problem. In this paper the authors were trying to answer this question, that what is the conditional quality of life from sampling view. In this framework they enable definition as well as of quality of life indicators and at the end they presented a conceptual model for electing indicators and assessment quality of life.

Introduction: Agriculture is the basis of all 'human' wealth amongst nations, and without food no human community could really have function. The fall of civilizations have been attributed to degrading food producing systems. But there are people who have evolved sustainable agricultural practice. According to Agenda 21, the concept of sustainability is multidimensional.It includes ecological and social, as well as economic ones. Between these different elements, there is an interdependency. Research results indeed confirm that the relationships are strong, numerous and complex. Strengthening the economic viability of rural areas is a basis for providing the means of preserving their social and environmental functions. Economic, social and environmental objectives can to a certain degree develop synergies.However, they are not always mutually supportive; and they can even compete with each other.Where this is the case, the concept of sustainability refers to the need to strike the right balance between its three elements. Political choices concerning one out of these three elements must at least ensure that certain minimum standards with respect to the other two are observed.Mainly the structural, technical and commercial aspects of family farming have been investigated up to now, while the many natural points of communality family farming shares with the concept of sustainable rural development have not been extensively explored. Thus the emphasis on research in exploitation of agricultural systems, that mainly implement after land reform in Iran one of the key pillars of sustainable development studies in rural areas. The present article pays, the role of farming system - operating farm (family) in rural sustainable development Ghir & Karzin city in Fars province.

Introduction: During the recent years, low-depth wells have found a special significance in the rural economy of Zahak Township. These wells have not already been used so much, due to abundance of surface waters; but in the recent years (1998-2009) more attention have been paid to low-depth wells because of discontinuous flow of Hirmand River.Digging low-depth wells is one of the techniques used by the people of this region in campaigning against drought and creating diversification in the agricultural products to which less attention has been paid in academic researches.

Introduction: Rural poverty, as a result of pressure on natural resources, and unsustainable as well as nonstandard use of these resources, leads to an intensification of environment destruction.Additionally, environmental crises intensify the villagers' poverty through the exhaustion and destruction of resources used by them. In the present article the aim is considering the role of economic poverty of rural residents in destruction of environment in The Surveyed Pasture of Shoorrood In Shibab District of the Zabol Township.

Introduction: Jangaldeh neighborhood is one of the three rural cores of Ali-Abad Katool that according to expressed standards and indexes is recognized as an Informal Settlement, at now. This leads to numerous problems such as of social, economic, cultural, environmental, and physical ones, and therefore needs to Organizing and Empowerment. The aim of this research is prioritizing the factors in organizing and empowerment of Jangaldeh neighborhood of Ali-Abad Katool city.Main question of this research is: How the challenges of settlement are prioritized in this neighborhood and what challenges take high priority.Growth of population puts on odd load and tags changing in economic, social, and especially physical trends resulted in deterioration of texture and poverty. Of course, problems are not limited to these; and some issues come to the area that they need to work special practices and task. In many of texts and papers was cited about urban repairing and limited to physical interventions, less attention to human aspects. We tried to match some physical and human interventions to each other. We examined many approaches and reached to these results that Organizing and Empowerment have can express as the best strategies to combat with these phenomena.

Introduction: Artificial Neural network (ANN) models are knowledge-based models and fit within the regression type models of land use changes. ANNs are powerful tools that use a machine learning approach to quantify and model complex behavior and patterns. ANNs were developed to model the brain's interconnected system of neurons so that computers could be made to imitate the brain’s ability to sort patterns and learn from trial and error, thus observing relationships in data.

Introduction: Nowadays, tourism as a dynamic industry and with unique characteristics includes an important part of economic activities and productions in the developed countries, as well as developed ones. This industry covers all the phenomena and relationships resulting from the interaction of tourists, suppliers and vendors of tourism products, governments and host communities, in the process of attracting and welcoming the tourists.Results and achievements of the tourism industry involve considerable results such as aspects of employment and its impact on development and economic-social functions mentioned in a region or country. Today, the religious tourism is one of the most important kinds which currently has been spread all over the world, and has overcome to weather (climatic) obstacles.