Human Geography Research
Year:2018 | Volume:50 | Issue:1 |Papers Count:16

The recent upsurge of different social movements in Middle east illustrates the central role of cities for social movements. The late months of 2010 were the starting points of the liberation movements among Arab countries in the Middle East. The fall of Tunisian government and democracy leading attempts in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria based of the news broadcast caused urban spaced such as Tahrir sq. in Cairo, Pearl sq. in Manama and university sq. in Sana’a to be known as the sign of liberalism and social protest against dictatorship, whereas they were completely unknown beforehand. ...

Many developing countries have achieved considerable progress in reducing poverty over the Last 30 years due to high rates of economic growth and broad-based development programmes.However, even where growth has had a great impact on poverty in the aggregate, pockets of Poverty have persisted among marginalized groups such as indigenous peoples and those living in marginalized and remote areas, where the incidence of poverty is typically greater than among the rest of society. In Rural sustainable Development Process, Poverty Eradication, providing the essential needs and poor’s empowerments in different dimensions, have an important position. Economic and social capabilities did not feature in the old agenda, despite their major role in driving poverty reduction and development. ....

Air quality in large cities is one of the major problems and challenges in developed and developing countries today. Occurrence and intensity of air Pollution in cities influence by various factors such as pollution Sources, meteorological factors and chemical reactions between pollutants. There are different models for predict air pollution concentrations in cities that classified in the two groups: models based on dispersion method and land use regression models (LUR). The first research on LUR model was Introduced by SAVIAH project that sponsored by the European Union,. This study was a multicenter project that is included Huddersfield and London (UK), Bilthoven (Netherlands), Prague (Czech Republic) and Warsaw (Poland). SAVIAH study aimed to develop and validate methods for analyzing the relationship between air pollution and health on a small scale. After this research, several studies use the application of this model for modeling urban air quality. ...

Introduction: So far, tourism has been viewed from different perspectives and in different fields. Recently, the behaviorists have led tourism development researchers’ minds to identifying individual characteristics, more than ever. Because, the tourism facilities and equipment provision if not based on the understanding the environment, will not be getting much satisfaction. Accordingly, the development of tourism based on the tourists’ behavior is an effective and desirable solution. Tourism applications are strongly affected by behavioral -activation patterns of communities. Tourist behaviour always takes place in time and space, and the study of spatial temporal behaviour has become increasingly popular in recent years. Tourist behaviour has been studied by researchers from various perspectives. Describing and portraying tourist spatial-temporal behaviour patterns results in a better understanding of tourist activities. A better understanding of tourist behaviour patterns may, in turn, provide a scientific basis for industry practices, such as attraction management, product renewal and attraction marketing. ...

Fast and uncontrollable growing of urbanization causes loss of lands and its recourse, leads to decrease of green areas, open spaces and serious environmental and social problems. So, an essential step to urban planning, management and evaluation of its effects is to simulate physical development of the city. The aim of this study is to understand parameters of physical development at Ilkhichi city with regard to sustainable spatial development of urban issues from ecological and environmental viewpoint in the next two decades. Using Landsat 5 multi temporal satellite images and object oriented techniques, application changes of the lands in 1984-2011 period has been evaluated with emphasis on Sprawl expansion of ilkhichi city. Based on the results, urban area of Bonab which was 94.59 hectares in 1984, has reached to 438.57 ha in 2011.195.84 hectares of mentioned lands has developed on the Garden and agricultural land, which demands management of future development based on the principles of sustainable development. ...

In political geography studies, political processes emergence causing is under the influence of natural and physical features. In other word, roles of natural factors and conditions always have been considered as one of the important foundations of development and governance system. Many scientists have believed that weather conditions particularly affected by the geographical position have an important role on the types of state. For example, Aristotle knew the weather conditions having effects in the evolution of societies. So that, in his opinion in the Greek, its success due to temperate climate their intellectual superiority of the Greeks is influenced by These conditions. ...

Around the world today depletion of natural resources including major problems and most important threat to human life that In recent years the human activity has intensified with population growth and transformation. This is also a limitation in rural areas. This problem significantly to the livelihoods of rural communities and the data. Because of the dependence of agriculture on natural resources and the importance of the proper use of water and soil resources is essential. Due to the seriousness of the problem of soil erosion and the need to improve soil fertility and increase agricultural productivity, actions by farmers of soil and water conservation program takes place. ...

In the present age, information and communication technology as a pervasive force has affected various aspects of the human life. One of the main effects of the new technology was design and deployment of e-government. Both structurally and in terms of nature, e-government is a modern phenomenon that has been established on the basis of mutual interaction between government and citizens. ...

Form follows function” although is not a new concept, in last two decades gained more currency especially in spatial planning context that believed by investigating forms, function can somewhat be known. Analyzing spatial structure of regions as a means of spatial planning consists two main approaches; functional and morphological that investigate relational and nodal features of centers respectively. Spatial structure in metropolitan regions can be used in population and employment aspects that the first one represents settlement and the latter activity system of a region. In theoretical literature, these aspects are affected by three main factors, CBD, sub-centers and transportation networks. ...

In present century, the tendency to urbanization has been seen in most countries. The physical development and population growth of Iran cities have had a coordinated and balanced increase until several decades ago. Based on new changes, the cities have been changed and improved quickly. These changes have been unbalanced and uncoordinated in the form of quick increase of population and physical growth of the cities. Generally, this urban unbalanced development has been happened in the unprepared lands in the cities. Therefore, the most important issue against urban development is the place for their future development. Principally, the establishment and creation of a city is depended on the geographical location and condition more than anything else. Based on geographical site where the cities are located on it, they may encounter with different geomorphologic phenomena for their future development. ...

In most countries, especially in developing countries and Iran, is not spatial justice in the distribution of development indicators in the industrial sector. This issue, led to the imbalance in regional development, increased social inequality and imbalance in the development indicators distribution. Ardebil province with a lot of background on the subject of regional spatial planning, have been faced with the problem of imbalance in the development and distribution of unbalanced development indicators. Due to the necessity of spatial planning approach to regional development, it is necessary for identifying and analyzing the industrial development and spatial distribution patterns of industrial indicators in Ardabil province. The major aim of this study is to assess the spatial justice in the distribution of industrial development of the province of Ardabil. This article made from five main sections: introduction, theoretical principles, methods, results, discussion and conclusions. ...

at a system level (a global scale), almost three-quarters of all wars occurred between government and countries that have been competing with each other. the concept of competition deserve special attention in regional and global geopolitics the because of its centrality of is in the interests between government. thus, since the formation of geopolitics have been comes with power and competition, we need to are contained compete aspects and context of its formation. in this regard, the present research is seeking to explain of the theoretical foundation of the basic concepts of competition in geopolitics. ...

Today, in developed and developing countries are experiencing rapid changes and growth in area and population. Essential for sustainable urban growth management and urban development planning, understanding patterns of urban growth is correct. Satellite remote sensing in conjunction with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has been recognized as a powerful and effective tool in detecting land use and land cover changes (Jensen & Lulla, 1987). Satellite remote sensing is a potentially powerful means of monitoring land-use change at high temporal resolution and lower costs than those associated with the use of traditional methods and provides multi-spectral and multitemporal data that can be used to quantify the type, amount and location of land use and land cover changes (Jensen & Lulla, 1987). ...

Crime is one of the important issues in societies, especially in large cities. The crime control and prevention require the use of citizen’s potentials and capacity in the form of participatory policing. Accordingly, a combination of the citizens’ participation and the police activities with the objective of solving the crime problem and establishing security in the society would be effective. Using Web GIS and citizen-based information systems can facilitate citizens’ participation in crime mapping, analysis, decision making and management for the purpose of crime control and prevention. ...