Human Geography Research
Year:2013 | Volume:44 | Issue:4|Papers Count:17

Introduction: Housing, as a sector which absorbs 25% of all investments and 30% of country’ s money supply, has been always a place of dispute for different factors and also it has been the origin of several positive and negative effects in macro, zonal, and local levels.

Introduction: Researches on quality of life in urban environments have gained considerable attention by the urban scientists. These studies have specific approach in different dimensions. For example, they may cover different geographical regions and the specific aspects of quality of life such as housing, income, safety issues and etc. Quality of life has a comprehensive meaning which ranges from good, satisfied to happy life. Foo defined quality of life as follow "quality of life examines two sets of objective and subjective indexes in many cases". Subjective indexes extract from measuring the perceptions, attitudes and satisfaction of people regarding to their urban environment, while objective indexes would obtain via visible realities which are available in the form of secondary data. Given the level of quality of life in the study both indexes could be used for showing the level of urban quality of life.

Introduction: From beginning of 20th century in which crude oil gained gradually its position as the most significant source for maintaining energy in the world, the rate of resources and status of demand and supply for possessors of such resources which are mainly producers and exporting countries and for importing and consuming of such type of energy became increasingly importance.

Introduction: Increasing Population and urban quick growth has been followed the bad effects that today people believed urban areas are not suitable for living and activity cities Population growth created problems like traffic, sound pollution, producing lead in air, increasing industrial workshops and urban disturbance. Growing the population, particularly, expanding the urban life, overcoming industry based on new technology, tending to machine life have made an intensive destruction on human’s life including of ruining the resource and plants, changing the farms into the instructions, environmental pollutions and lockage of green coverage. These are included in Yazd.

Introduction: Accessibility is a complex concept and has various dimensions, based on the phenomenon being modeled. Quantification of this concept with the proper dimensions in mind, calls for mathematical indices and models. Spatial accessibility is one of the principal concepts of geography and transportation planning, especially in the social aspects, like justice. Since health is of major concern, universally, including also the developing countries, its inappropriate distribution can lead to unjust supply of its services, and unequal opportunities in accessing them. Spatial accessibility can generally be measured using the two criteria of regional availability and regional accessibility, as was first suggested to be used simultaneously in 1984. Regional Availability, a common index in health care services, measures the number of doctors and other medical experts available per population in need of them. Regional accessibility, on the other hand, characterizes the spatial or geographic distribution of health care services offered to the public in the form of health care centers, presenting the idea of distance from the demand to the supply as an impedance to access them.

Introduction: It is a long time that rural conductor plans have been implemented in a large number of rural areas in Iran and a lot of them have been accomplished and there are considerable numbers of rural areas which are not yet completed. Bearing these in mind, qualitative and quantitative assessment of these plans seems quite necessary in regard to their effectiveness and efficiency in tackling rural issues. In the other hands, a lot of government funding, amounting to millions of dollar have been spent on different parts of these projects, such as mapping, studies and so on. Therefore, it is necessary for the inhabitants of the rural areas to get to know what achievements these projects have had for their life. Therefore, in this study we try to assess the effectiveness of these plans on rural physical development of Jahrom County from the villager’s view as a case study so that we may discover the advantages and shortcomings of these plans and make use of the study results in future development planning of rural areas of the country and increase their effectiveness.

Introduction: Basically, any country's economic development requires investment in different economic sectors and activities in the country and without investment in infrastructure and superstructure projects cannot be expected to expand employment and economic prosperity had produced. To achieve this, many countries have found a strong desire to attract foreign investments. Tourism is one of the domains that can attract domestic and foreign investments and consequently economic development has followed.

Introduction: Although the products of each region could be used as an indicator for the welfare of that region alone, but in new literature of this field, not only production but also the level of technology used in production is considered as fundamental factor for ranking regions based on level of development, particularly sustainable development.

Introduction: Due to the growth in communication technology and overwhelming need to different forms of information, the second half of the twentieth century was a turning point to a new era in which human society was desperately dependent on circulation of information and on-time dissemination of information. Unlike the era of industrial civilization in that world started to expand, in this era the world is getting smaller. Rejecting the basis of industrial technology, the work of information age is based on data processing and the result of information technology. The most distinguishing feature of this era is higher speed and dependence on information as raw material needed by farmer, industry and development. A kind of comprehensive view overshadow this era.

Introduction: The purpose of this study is to investigate a new standpoint in area of geopolitics, which is based on information power and growth of modern combat indicators in the contemporary system. Thus, the basis of this study is the importance of geopolitics, its role in the international system, and its developments. By analyzing indicators of this context, we can find that the term “info sphere” (information resource) has an important role to obtain the answer of hypothesis proposed in the introduction and material and methods of this research due to its delicate nature. Given the analyzed data on the above content, it is clear that present geopolitics concepts are related to this new context.

Introduction: The expansion of informal settlement, particularly in the developing countries, can be considered as a serious challenge for the achievement of different dimensions of sustainable development. This unpleasant phenomenon which pursued the urban poverty and changed the approaches to the above mentioned problem is the outcome of exercising a top-down policy in the development programs of these countries.

Introduction: Persian Gulf Bridge project ideas that can create significant advantages and opportunities for the Qeshm Free Zone in the 50's when the first free trade port established in Qeshm Island was suggested. According to historical documents, it seems that Persian Gulf Bridge project in that time mostly was limited to connection between Qeshm and Bandar Abbas and Perhaps the strategic importance of this project in macroeconomic issues were not considered like today.