ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS MANAGEMENT
Year:2018 | Volume:5 | Issue:3|Papers Count:6

This study has been dine through a descriptive-analytic method, which studies housing sustainability status in economic, social and environmental dimensions, and housing distribution among 23 villages located in Ardel township, Miankou region. The statistical population of the study consisted of all household caretakers of Miankouh region, among which 270 were questioned randomly. The results of the survey on the status of social and economic sustainability of housing in the study area showed that the mean of two reverse dimensions was 2. 48 and 2. 81, respectively, which was lower than the average. Conversely, two dimensions of the study, the environmental sustainability dimension of housing, showed that the average calculated for this dimension was 3. 18 that showed a better situation. The results of the study on the general situation of housing sustainability in Miankouh area showed that the average measured (2. 74) was lower than the average basis, and therefore, Miankouh rural district is not in a suitable position in terms of housing sustainability. The spatial distribution results of housing in Miankouh district explained that villages in the studied area experience the same pattern in terms of housing sustainability, and the only village of Kazemiyah, which is formed from the integration of several villages, has the least sustainability and is in front of the village of Choldan with proper access and communication position among the villages of the region with a higher level of housing sustainability.

Due to the occurrence of the industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century, classical societies were subjected to tremendous transformations by virtue of the development of communication systems and construction infrastructures. Accordingly, urbanization has undergone significant growth. With the great intervention of the industry and trade in human interrelations, social ties became firmly established by bureaucratic organizations and, especially, monetary issues. Beside the emergence of Taylorism and Fordism propagating the regulation of more efficiency, the instrumental-strategic rationality focused on the principle of domination-supervision conquered the communicative-argumentative rationality focused on the idea of dialogue-agreement. In Capitalism, almost all aspects of culture are determined by the economic factors derived from the ideological apparatuses of the state. This economic system, through technology, captures nature and exploits it, and through media, manipulates people‘ s consciousness and their plans for the future...

Forest areas are among the most important natural and ecological resources on the Earth and are considered as one of the main pillars of sustainable development in any country. Fires ruins almost 5500 hectares of Iran‘ s forests yearly. In this research, firstly, the fire points were identified using the fire data of Forest Organization in combination with MODIS sensor data between 2012 and 2017. Due to the fact that more than 75% of fires were happened in the hot season of the year (June, July, and August), the data of the three months was used for modeling. Then, the effective parameters in fire occurring were evaluated and the dependent parameters were removed. Accordingly, two methods, including multiple linear regression and multivariate adaptive regression spline were studied to predict the fire risk. Some important parameters including the root-mean-square error (RMSE), R2, the correct estimation percentage of fire and non-fire points, and error distribution were used to evaluate. After modeling, it was found that the multivariate adaptive regression spline has better performance— where its RMSE of test data was 0. 1628, its R2 of test data was 0. 893, and its correct estimation percentage of test fire points and test non-fire points was near 94% and 88% respectively, as well as its error distribution was better than the other method...

Introduction: This research investigates to which degree and how much the considered media have paid attention to the news of haze dust in Khuzestan. Materials and methods: The statistical community for this study consists of the news articles related to the phenomenon of haze dust in Khuzestan province which have been published in 4 websites: IRNA and Tasnim news agencies, and Ministry of Agriculture Jihad and the Department of the Protection of the Environment in 1395. The data for this study has been collected and described based on the content analysis approach. The findings of the research have been presented in two descriptive and explanatory levels...

Drought is one of the most powerful natural disasters, which are affected on different aspects of the environment. Most of the time this phenomenon is immense in the arid and semi-arid area. Monitoring and prediction the severity of the drought can be useful in the management of the natural disaster caused by drought. Many indices were used in predicting droughts such as SPI, VCI, and TVX. In this paper, based on three data sets (rainfall, NDVI, and land surface temperature) which are acquired from MODIS satellite imagery, time series of SPI, VCI, and TVX in time-limited between winters 2000 to summer 2015 for the east region of Isfahan province were created. Using these indices and fusion of symbolic aggregation approximation and hidden Markov chain drought was predicted for fall 2015. For this purpose, at first, each time series was transformed into the set of quality data based on the state of drought (5 group) by using SAX. Algorithm then the probability matrix for the future state was created by using Markov hidden chain. The fall drought severity was predicted by fusion the probability matrix and state of drought severity in summer 2015. The prediction based on the likelihood for each state of drought includes severe drought, middle drought, normal drought, severe wet and middle wet. The analysis and experimental result from proposed algorithm show that the product of this algorithm is acceptable and the proposed algorithm is appropriate and efficient for predicting drought using remote sensor data...

The earthquake is one of a kind of destructive natural disasters that has left many financial and Casualties losses in our country. This issue takes into consideration the need for public education to prepare for earthquake preparation. General education can be provided through the Islamic Republic of Iran television, but it is necessary to explain the roles and requirements of the television to provide these trainings. This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating such roles and requirements using qualitative content analysis method. In this research, deep interview was conducted with 16 experts selected by purposeful sampling. Open and axial coding of the interviews was conducted with MaxQDA2018 software. The findings of this study indicate that television should offer its educational functions for "before the crisis", "During the crisis" and "after the crisis". Meanwhile, TV should provide these trainings in "direct and serious" and "indirect and entertainment-based" formats. In addition, in order to play educational role of television, it must use its capacities like "technical and content", "cultural", and "organizational and inter-organizational" be overcome barriers "in-organizational" and "out-organizational". TV should fulfill the requirements in four dimensions: "Targeting and "Planning", "Audience and Needs Assessment", "Organizational", and "Content", which play their role in providing earthquake exposure training in order to make public readiness...