Journal of Regional Planning
Year:2016 | Volume:6 | Issue:22|Papers Count:16

Study of household consumer behavior within the community as a unit in society is useful in policy making. This paper aimed to recognize the demand behavior in urban households of Chaharmahal- Bakhtiari province based on the almost ideal demand system in the form of groups such as electricity, water and fuel, health and sanitation, food and beverages, clothing and footwear, transport and communications, furniture, home furnishings and other goods, and services to classify them into durable and non-durable goods. This is an applied research. The study sample consisted of urban households in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province for the period 1979-2013. The used statistical method to estimate the model coefficients is seemingly unrelated regression. The results indicate that groups of water, electricity, fuel, food, clothing and footwear, accessories and furniture are essential goods and health services, transport and communications are luxury. Also, money illusion cause share of health services, food, and beverage groups increased, but others decreased. According to the results, one percent increase in the price of water, electricity and fuel used for urban households, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari province, increases cost price of appliances and furniture to 0.00591.

Mortality is one of the main elements in planning the health of each community. This paper provides an evaluation for the factors affecting the geographical distribution of mortality for 24 cities of Khuzestan in 2012 by Arc-GIS software and a hierarchical analysis. The methodology includes the use of Fuzzy numbers for paired comparison of options and the use of geometric mean for finding priorities and indices. If the calculation of the indices by the triangular Fuzzy numbers is done, the total indices will be accessible in GIS environment. Based on the statistics from Khuzestan’s census organization in 2012, chronic conditions and unintentional injuries are among the main causes of deaths from cardiovascular disease. The obtained data in this regard show that the highest rate of cardiovascular disease was observed in Ahvaz (0.06), such cities as: Ramhormoz, Behbahan, Dezful and Abadan were the second, cities like Izeh, Masjed Soleyman, Shush tar, Shush, Shadegan and Khoramshahr were the third and the rest were plaed at the last position in the scale.

The use of wind turbines for generating electric energy in windy regions of different countries, converted to a fully commercial and inevitable process. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the situation of wind energy in Khuzestan province for wind turbine installation purpose. For this purpose, the wind speed data of selected weather stations (Bostan, Dezful, Behbahan, Abadan, Masjed-Soleiman and Ahvaz in Khuzestan province) in period 2001-2010 were obtained from Iran Meteorological Organization. These data were analyzed by Matlab software. The Wibull distribution function is used for replaced wind discrete data. The annual wind power density and other parameters of wind energy in high levels of 10, 20 and 50 meters were calculated and to estimate the wind speed at a height more than 10 meters the model one-seventh were used. The results shown that the Dezful, Ahvaz and Abadan stations, respectively, with the ability to generate 824, 232 and 225 KW of Electricity power are suitable for the installation of the commercial wind turbines farms. In regard to the installation of commercial wind turbines at a height of 50 meters, the rotor surface of 80 meters, accounting the maximum power factor, turbines energy production capabilities and electrical power, the stations of Dezful, Abadan and Ahwaz, respectively can provide power production 443, 125 and 121 KW per second. These regions are suitable for installing the commercial wind turbines.

Nowadays, special attention to enterprenuers in most countries. Foster entrepreneurship and create a favorable environment are particularly considered necessary tools to develop economic progress in developing countries. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the development of enteprenurship in the cooperative sector in the geographic area of the Fars province. The study sample is consisted of 48 top enterprenures from Fars province during the years 1388-92 that the required information was collected by using questionnaire. Its validity is confirmed by experts and its reliability is approved through Cronbach’s alpha after evaluating the completed questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by different statistical methods such as Spearman correlation coefficient and exploratory factor analysis and the software spss 18. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that the variables were summarized after 7 operating rotation. In other words, there are 7 factors that were statistically significant with special value more than 1 by indicating 743.88 percent of the total variance between variables and factors. Factor analysis results showed that the "general legislation" was the most influential factor for the development of entrepreneurship by indicating more than 16% of the total variance. But, "cultural factors" is the least factor by indicating 822.8 percent of the total variance.

Land use planning and appropriate use of regional environmental characteristics are principles of sustainable development. Due to the overpopulation, changing land use is high in Marvdasht region. The aim of this study is to make the comparison between the land use and preparing planning map of this region. This research is descriptive-analytic and library study, questionnaires and surveys and field observations have been used to collect data. Data analysis was performed with software ArcGis 9.3. Comparison of the potential regional land use through overlaying different layers was done by using Makhdoom model and GIS quantitative planning to prepare regional land use map. It should be mentioned that not tangible modifications in are done in the preparation of environmental units and current land use map. Results show that the first priority (sum of scenarios) is irrigation agriculture and then ecotourism and the only current land use is allocated to the industry, urban and rural (0.4%) development. Also, utilization of irrigation agriculture (40%) and protection (1.47%) are less than the optimum environmental capability of the region and utilization of forestry (22%) and pasturage (32%) are more than the environmental capability.

Graphical display of human phenomena, as a model a model to explore areas for spatial analysis, can portray the spatial distribution of geographical phenomena. In this regard, geostatistics and modeling can help estimate the distribution of graphic representation. The research is analytical and comparative approach. Twenty villages were used with tourist arrival statistics from April 1389 to April 1390 for estimating arrival zoning area in terms of tourism. Also, the technique of radial basis function (RBF) with five models was used for zoning. Mutual assessment models was used to assess the interaction of the semivariogram. The results indicated that Spline model with the coefficient of determination 0.77 and RMS=19 is chosen as the best model for zoning. The results show 73 villages of Ramsar per year between 1000 and 1500, 46 villages between 1500 and 2000 and 42 villages between 500 and 1, 000 can absorb tourists located in the north of the city. The highest estimate tourist attraction is allocated to 2 the villages (Javaherdeh and Janet roudbar) with 4,000 to 5,000 tourists, respectively. The results indicated that the west city of Ramsar has a high potential for attracting tourists.

Today, the issue of recycling and its dimensions to be considered as an essential principle in the waste management. With the growing trend of landfills and environmental impacts that cannot be buried or burned, and look only to the physical and chemical resort. But, one of the keys to success in this case is the importance of social factors affecting recycling such as social capital. This study surveys the relationship between social capital (social trust, social commitment, community involvement) and recycled urban waste. This is a survey research and the study sample is citizens living in shiraz (1400000). According to the sample in structural equation modeling determined 500 citizens from 9 metropolitan area that were selected through quota sampling and data gathered by questionnaire. The reliability of the questionnaire through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and validity by using confirmatory factor analysis were confirmed. The results indicated a statistically significant relationship between any of the variables of social trust, social commitment, community involvement and recycling of municipal solid waste is approved. Pearson correlation coefficient is respectively 0.20, 0.15 and 0.19. In the multivariate structural equation models to measure the impact of these variables into account errors respectively, 0.13, 0.13 and 0.23 and the coefficient of determination is 0.13.

Due to the recent upheavals, the presence of most women in public domains of cities and concurrent breaking the limitations of families, the necessity of revising organization of urban spaces for creating a platform for active participation, healthy and non-damaging presence of women in physical and social spaces is observed. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyze urban tourist spaces focusing women’s sense of security in Baharestan City. The research method was descriptive-analytical, and the population sample included all women residing in Baharestan in 2014 that they were 19700 people. The sample size was determined as 384 participants using Cochrane’s formula. The sampling method was purposive random sampling. In the present study, the made 11-question questionnaire was used that its validity was calculated as 0.70 using Kendall coefficient and reliability was calculated as 0.85 using Cronbach’s alpha. For inferential analysis of the obtained data, one sample t-test and ANOVA were sued. The results of one sample t-test indicated that women of Baharestan City do not enjoy in urban tourist spaces, and from the perspectives of the women living in Baharestan, there is relative security in urban tourist spaces. The f-observed at the level p<0.05 indicated a significant different between the mean scores of women’s sense of security in urban tourist spaces of Baharestan based on the years of residence in the city, educational degree and marital status.

Informal settlement is a manifestation of growing process of spatial disparities in urban districts, which is the result of rapid and imbalanced growth of towns leading to adverse implication for economic, social and frame consequences. Urban development strategies are new and effective viewpoints for improving the planning process of the informal settlements. The most important purpose of this research is to study the conditions and problems of informal settlements of Bahar town in Shiraz. It has SDS approach to organize their conditions. By considering physical, social-economic, environmental indices and having basic services, this research analyses the informal settlements in Bahar town. This aim of this applied research with compound methodology (scaling and descriptive-analytical) refers to study the role of urban development strategies in organizing informal settlements by combining SWOT and ANP models in Bahar town of Shiraz. Statistical society of this research is professionals and managers in Shiraz. The sample size was 100 respondents identified through multi-stage sampling. Research questionnaires were completed. Then, using network analysis and multi-criteria decision-making software (Super Decisons) for obtaining the weights of each strategy related to organize housing in informal settlements of Bahar town. All criteria were specified by attention to the purpose of improving the settler’s situations. The results show that the main part of informal settlement of Bahar town arises from rural-urban migrations which have poor sense of citizenship. Three strategies were considered for overcoming this informal settlement (Bahar town in Shiraz): the superior strategy is creating job for residents, improving the quality of materials and constructions with the importance of %22.86, the second strategy is good local governance with the importance of %18.1, and the third strategy is improving and increasing the quality of services with the importance of %12.

Rural tourism, through its links and interactions with environment, natural attractions and local communities, leves significant implications on the positive and negative aspects of the natural and human environment. Despite of widespread studies by different researchers about this impacts, it is clear that the methodological framework in this area is limited. The rural area in Ardabil province because of relative situations and Geographical conditions has been atracted many tourists in recent years, and this issue has been created significant economic, social and environmental impacts on the mentioned rurals. The main aim of this study is to assessing impacts of tourism activities on sustainable development indexes and also is to Evaluating of sustainability levels of rural destinations. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic. The required data for this study were collected by taking notes and questionnaires. The study area consisted of four tourist rural destination in Ardabil province. Statistical population of this study consisted of 1553 people. The sample society (155 people) has been estimated by using of Cochran techniques. Local community sample has been selected by systematic sampling and tourist community sample has been selected through simple random sampling. Alan Prescott sustainability assessment model is edited and selected in order to subject analysis of a framework of 83 indicators (social, economic and environmental). The results of these research show that there is a significant differences between tourists views and local community in relation to sustainability indices and local community evaluate So that tourism indicators are more sustainable than tourists. But overall stability of these indices is evaluated average in the scope of this investigation.

Rural management has been implemented through Dehyari and the Islamic Council institutions for more than two decades. These institutions played a role at the village level in rural development in term of their activities. Checking the amount of interference and actions of the rural managers in rural development issues requires analysis. This article focused on the role and function of rural management in physical development in rural settlements. This research is descriptive-analytical and uses the survey method. The scope of this research includes ten villages in Chenaran County each of which has a population of more than 50 families and the guiding plan was performed in them. The statistical population in the first group is rural managers consisting of two members (One Dehyar and One member of the Council), and the second group includes 330 heads of households living in these villages. The validity of the questionnaire has been approved by academic staff and experts in rural development. Moreover, the reliability of the study’s measurement, through Alpha Cronbach, was obtained 0.87 for local residents and 0.91 for the rural managers. The results of research have confirmed the effective role of local management in physical development. Based on the research findings, all the criteria, except for the economic situation, display a significant difference between the perspectives of the two groups.

If the mass media and press are used in a targeted way in terms of native and traditional conditions of communities, particularly in marginalized areas, they can have a positive and deterministic role in the process of rural development. In this regrad, the researchers of present study have evaluated the role of the press and mass media in development of West Zarabad Sub-District, Konarak County located in the southern region of Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The methodology is descriptive-analytic based on completing questionnaires. Data analysis is conducted through the SPSS Software on the basis of descriptive and inferential statistics. Obtained results show very limited access to the media, relatively good public use of the media, and relatively favorable role of media in raising public awareness. However, the role played by the media in the development of rural areas is weak and almost imperceptive. In this regard, the television had the most and local media had the least effect. In terms of effectiveness, the various indices (except the raising awareness index) were ranked as poor in affecting development process. There was a significant difference among these indices in regard to the degree of media influence. The raising awareness index was the most and the index of participation in rural development projects, the least affected by media.

One of the basic aspects in the analysis of rural problems is paying attention to management structure in these communities. Villages as especial places with different lifestyles than cities, require different management model which is consistent with the economic, social and ecological circumstances of the villages. The main target group of development plans is people living in villages. So, their satisfaction with managers and governors should be considered as one of the most important issues in preparing those plans. The village management offices are public and private institutions which have been established for the management of public affairs in the field of rural management system in villages. Since the previous governors were not successful in the achieving development, achieving this goal is the outmost importance in developing villages. This descriptive- analytical study focuses on economic development in rural area of Badrood in the Natanz County of the Isfahan Province. The number of households in six villages of Badrod is 1407 that 262 people were selected as sample size. Data analysis was performed with the Wilcoxon test. The research results indicate that there is a significant relationship between the village management offices and rural economic development. So, village management has played positiuve role in rural economic development. Data analysis has been done by "SPSS" software, "Wilcoxon signed-rank test" and "t-test". Also villages’ managers have not had any role in establishment of productive workshop but it has positive impact on agricultural marketing and property of villagers. The field study data were gathered in the year 1389 that have been updated and revised in the year 1394. The updated data confirm the previous research results.

Human and physical constraints of physical-spatial development of cities precede the rapid movement toward surrounding villages of urban areas that this issue is specifically tangible in mountainous urban and rural areas of the west and western-north parts of Iran. In this geographical region, Javanroud city in Kermanshah province is one of those which imposed great pressure on its surrounding villages to it. So, the purpose of present study is considering the type and amount of environmental constraint effects of Javanroud city on its surrounding villages. This research is an applied research and research methodology is descriptive-analytic. In this study, environmental constraint effects of city have been investigated on the villages that are located at the distance of 5 km from the study city. Statistical population is households in 6 villages surrounding the city and the number of 261 family heads as the sample size has been determined by Cochran formula. In order to gather information, laboratory-documentary and field studies (observation, questionnaire, and interview) are applied. After gathering necessary information, by presenting an overall and comprehensive picture about the changes and variations of rural lands’ applications, the analysis of present condition, comparison of these changes, growth ratings and rural development were done based on Topsis-Victor integrated model. Research results show that Sheikh-alkaram village according to the calculated values (R=0.009, S=0.025 and Q=0) has almost no effect because of the unsuitable road and inappropriate position. While Safiabad village (with R=0.917, S=1.837 and Q=1) has the greatest influence and other surrounding villages in the study area are placed in the intermediate level. In this regard, population and workforce of Javanroud city due to the reasons such as: short distance to city, low price of lands and housing to the city, ease of access and use of urban services are inhabited in surrounding villages that leads to metamorphism. In this way, villages, as urban part, are playing the role as dormitories for Javanrood city by losting their traditional nature.

The present study investigated the attitudes of the host community tourism development business in the rural area in the district Dehshayhk business deals of Cigar in the southern Fars province. The study area in recent years, following the arrival of (formal and informal) of foreign goods, a commercial area with a lot of supply of these goods has become centers of trade and tourism flows (to buy) led. The meyhod of this research is descriptive-analytical and the data has been collected through the review of documents, field study and questionnaire. The data were analyzed by using Likert and statistical software spss. 13 villages were located in the research area and community sample is 365 people from rural residents and commercial sectors. In the analysis of data and primary research study, the economic impact of the host society and the greatest its impact on this community from the economic point has been determined. The findings have also been shown that residents of villages emphasize on tourists and, domestic and foreign merchants of province as the main factors for the development of rural settlements in the region. This is further emphasized that the support of the local authorities can better hosting and efficient business tourists in order to improve the participation level and local development due to its geographical location.