Rural Planning
Mohsen Aghayari Hir; Kolsoom Zakeri Miab
Abstract
Earthquake risk identification and analysis in rural areas is the decisive factor in the reduction their damages and casualties. Because in the cycle of crisis management, planning and identification of rural settlements risk is necessary to achieve the waste resources prevent policy and utilization ...
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Earthquake risk identification and analysis in rural areas is the decisive factor in the reduction their damages and casualties. Because in the cycle of crisis management, planning and identification of rural settlements risk is necessary to achieve the waste resources prevent policy and utilization of the maximum power. In other words, many of the villages risk in the earthquake, is preventable with causes recognition and reduction of vulnerability roots.Therefore this study pays to discuses and analysis of the earthquake risk in the rural settlements of central District of Marand County with the descriptive- analytic methodology. The population of this study is consisted of 74 villages in the central District of Marand County, that all of them have been studied. To assess earthquake risk in study area, initially the earthquake risk assessment model was presented in rural areas based on the conceptual and operating framework and then weighting to the indexes using the academic professionals (30 analytical hierarchical process questionnaire) and data process in the GIS environment, indexes of exposure (using GIS analysis) and vulnerability (with using of TOPSIS technique) was calculated. It should be noted that, each of the parameters was measured and modeled within several indicators and finally, using of layers overlay analysis in the GIS, earthquake risk assessment was conducted in the study area. According to the results, about 32 percent of the studied villages are located in high and very high risk zones that raised the necessity of planning, based on principles of crisis management.
Mohammad Zaheri; Mohsen Aghayari Hir; Kolsoom Zakeri Miab
Volume 19, Issue 51 , April 2015, , Pages 221-246
Abstract
Agriculture as a main economic activity of Azarshahr County is facing with fundamental problems (lack of proper marketing, high losses, low price of products and …). Most of these problems can be solved by creating agricultural products processing industries. Also, some of the region's economic ...
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Agriculture as a main economic activity of Azarshahr County is facing with fundamental problems (lack of proper marketing, high losses, low price of products and …). Most of these problems can be solved by creating agricultural products processing industries. Also, some of the region's economic and social problems such as lack of adequate employment, hidden unemployment and low income, can be improved by creating such industries. Agriculture in Azarshahr, according to the statistics of this county, annually produces over one million tons of agricultural products and overproduction in some agricultural and animal productions, such as horticultural and livestock products, which is indicative of necessary attention for establishment of agricultural processing and complementary industries in this county. This paper tries to determine Azarshahr County suitable processing and complementary industries and for this goal according to descriptive-analytical methodology; first we recognized the goals and then prioritized the industries using data gathered from experts and professionals in Agricultural Organization of East Azerbaijan Province and Azarshahr County and using combined Delphi and TOPSIS techniques. Results show that in Azarshahr County priory attention should be paid to processing industries related to livestock products because of higher overproduction and also rapid spoil ability of products, and thereby, industries related to horticultural products because of their important role in suitable using of regions agricultural products.
