Geography
Year:2010 | Volume:8 | Issue:25|Papers Count:13

Abstract: The indicators of relative advantage which formed the theoretical Foundations of goods and services production; are major economic tools which can manage the economic activities and policy making. The present research; study the relative advantage of apple in Simirom according to the existed indicators. The results indicate that apple has an relative advantage compare to the other products in this region and according to relative indicators (NBPD; BPD; CPD); The employment rate and export of the mentioned products has an higher relative advantage in compare to other production factors. Although this product has relative advantage among with others production but due to monopoly in production limitation of soil and water; vulnerability  against to unsuitable human and natural conditions and because of marketing and production; has some challenges; which it make necessary to diversified economics actives in the region. In the case of a compare comprehensive planning the mentioned production can be effective in economic development and sustainability of residents in the case study area.

Abstract: Security is considered as prerequisite for a salubrious society and feeling of security causes development of human societies and happiness of a society is guaranteed by preserving security and its resultant feeling. People’s attendance in public places requires their feeling of security. One of the factors threatening people’s attendance in public places is fear or insecurity feeling. Insecurity of public places and spaces hampers vivacity and health and it forces great costs to society by creating obstacles in the way of cultural growth and public participation. The current paper seeks to investigate the extent of social security and social factors effective on security feeling of citizens in border cities of Khorasan Razawi Province, especially Taibad as a model of border cities. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the data is collected through library research and questionnaire use. The data is analyzed and hypotheses are tested by SPSS. Findings indicate that there is significance relationship between feeling of security and indices like social capital, media performance, police forces role, people’ social status and city’s physical space. Ultimately, appropriate strategies are recommended for promoting social security of border cities.

Abstract: Simultaneous change paradigm of development from classic to new development, sustainable development and environmental issues is being fundamental in development. In this situation, fundamental problem is an environmental aware and knowledge of public. Therefore to solution this problem, International organizations including UNESCI are to make these finding operational, from 2005 to 2074. The period has been called UN decade of education for sustainable development (DESD) whose main aim is integrating durable values and sustainable development in all learning aspects. This article is part of project "A brief final report of analysis project of I.R. Iran's socio-cultural and environmental policies and programs in the fourth development plan, with regard to the aims of the executive program of UN decade of education for sustainable development (2005-2014)". In relation to preparing ESD strategic plan in I.R. of Iran’s developmental plans, especially the fourth plan, the following analysis frameworks was compiled and designed by 60 professors and experienced experts and SWOT was used to analyze the problem. Conclusion show that fundamental strategies is a Offensive Strategies as strategic package that with spatial time plan must interested from NGOs and people.

Abstract: Today urban green space and its application for urban sustainable development is very essential and has a vital role in ecological economical and social aspects. Green space land use is one of the basic issues in urban planning and management. Mashhad metropolis as a second largest city in Iran has growth very rapidly during last decades and lack of green space is one of the most important problems in this city. This paper based on field studies shows that green space per capita in the Mashhad is very low and under international and even national standards. So using sustainable green space per capita for Mashhad proposed.

Abstract: The base of any management approaches regarding to ICZM / refers to definition of Costal zone. Up to now we are facing a large Variety of definitions. Some countries consider the Coastal zone as an area limited between Coastal water line and land. Some others define Coastal zone as an area limited between the external limit of catchments basin and land–water line. Concerning to Iran Coastal zone are expanded between internal water of sea and 60 m to 600 m toward in land. This Conception of » Coastal zone «are Value for triple Iranian Coastal zone.

Abstract: Drought is universally acknowledged as a phenomenon associated with scarcity of water. Drought varies with regard to the time of occurrence, duration, intensity, and extent of the area affected from year to year. Ground water, which is found in aquifers below the surface of the Earth, is one of the Nation's most important natural resources. Droughts, seasonal variations in rainfall, and pumping affect the height of the underground water levels. The overall objective of this study is to apply a quantitative index namely SPI (Standardized Precipitation Index) to measure the drought conditions in the east region of Kermanshah, Iran during the last 30 years. To do this, different indices were considered to determine the drought conditions such as the longest period of drought, the number of months faced to drought and total Drought Magnitudes (DM). To evaluate the likely effects of drought on groundwater resources, first the relationship between them was shown graphically and then the correlation was calculated. The results of the research indicated that, among all mentioned indices, total DMs is a better index showing the drought condition in the region. The results on drought effects on groundwater resources using the correlation coefficient also showed that the droughts will have significant effect on ground water discharge. An analysis of the distribution of droughts showed that for droughts with short periods, the deficit in the groundwater discharge is smaller than in the recharge. While for droughts with long periods, the deficit in the groundwater discharge is larger than in the recharge.

Abstract: Human, has significant impact on climate behaviour. It will be caused changing by world population growth, Greenhouse Gases emissions, disrupting of land surface with making dam, deforestation, desertification and so in climatic systems. This paper try to study precipitation and temperature changes in Iran in term of increasing greenhouse gas in future decades.  It has used MAGICC SCENGEN model with 8 climate change scenarios. For this purpose, temperature and precipitation data, as a basic data, has selected during 1961-2000, then has been investigated temperature and precipitation changes for future decades. Iran has divided to 30 geographical regions By geographical coordinate system then temperature and precipitation changes studied for each region and so average of variations analysed in 30 region for 2000, 2025, 2075 and 2100 periods. Iran has not calculated West and northwest in this model.The results of this paper show that in all of Iranian 30 regions the change of temperature have increasing trend that this increase will have high amount after 2025 decade. The amount of temperature such as south and centre of Iran will be more than north regions. Precipitation variations all of the Iran regions will be decrease in precipitation aspect. In some parts of the north regions the amount of precipitation will have increase during 2000 decade. The north of Iran  will have a little decrease rather than other region.

Abstract: Disasters and incidents annually in our country cause many noticeably death and financial damage. With regard to the countries position and cities location in the vulnerable points, pay attention to this problem is very obvious. One of the most necessary actions is to performance the doctrine of Crisis management to reduce the venture, preparation, collation, reformation and reclamation. Therefore Crisis management is dynamic process in framework of the trustworthy and correct actions that perform before, ongoing and after the crisis. On the basis of Housing and Urbanism Ministry`s research in national physical project, 50 percent of urbanite population in country to reside in arena that have most risk of earthquake. Then with attention to the vulnerable position of IRAN in natural disaster (earthquake), and urban vulnerably against the earthquake, the purpose of this paper is identity the methods to reduce vulnerably due to the earthquake, with geography and urban planning tactics with regard to urban management. This research is a usage research and research method is criterion- analytical method. In this research we use the AHP(hierarchical analysis), to divide the urban physical and social-economic vulnerably and also use the analytical method of SWOT, to present the guidelines, policies and actions. In this research used the blower zero and one method to determine the value of every criterion.

Abstract: The Contemporize geography has seen the main changes in descriptive geography regarding analytic issues which based on behavior and action of man to his environment. In this research, the population potential and matrix communication techniques have applied which emphasize on the aspects of rural behaviors on relation to the environment. The author has Considered the factors which are more significant, such in population, behavioral patterns, Communication Channels in his theories. In Comparing the result of his research with theories indicate that there is more important in rural planning. This approach has not only more advantages in researching on a particular region, but also can be used as a Model in the other area.