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farzad veisi
Volume 23, Issue 70 , March 2020, , Pages 299-327
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Immigration is one of the four key elements of demographic change and circular and seasonal migration of rural labor force into the city, one of the sources of income of rural households in some rural areas. This study intends to study and analyze seasonal and circular migration patterns of rural labor ...
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Immigration is one of the four key elements of demographic change and circular and seasonal migration of rural labor force into the city, one of the sources of income of rural households in some rural areas. This study intends to study and analyze seasonal and circular migration patterns of rural labor force to the cities. About purpose this study is applied, the method is analytical, Gathering data on the basis of documentary research and field study, in the field section, questionnaires and observation method was used. Based on documentary research and field data collection method in the field of questionnaires, observation method was used. The study population included all heads of rural households of Sarvabad County. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire was carried out. according to the total number of households in the rural of sarvabad county, 324 samples were selected from a total statistical population and of 60 villages, 13 villages (20 per cent of villages in the city) randomly selected, in each village as well as an equal number of households selected to complete the questionnaire. By comparing the situation of migrants and non-migrants in 5 Asset of households in two parts, were found in three types of physical capital and human and financial capital, situation of immigrants are better than non-immigrants, and non-immigrants at the social and natural capital are better. The situation was better in the objective capital (capitals that can be seen) of immigrants. According to the results, it can be concluded that the circular and seasonal migration at the case study base on two pattern of coping and cumulative are in cumulative pattern.
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Hashem Dadashpour; Noushin Sokhandan Asl
Volume 23, Issue 69 , December 2019, , Pages 65-86
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Industrial clusters are related SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) concentrated in geographical areas which help regional development by promoting learning capacity. This development is due to intraction of four physical, economic, social- cultural and organizational proximity in industrial regions. ...
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Industrial clusters are related SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) concentrated in geographical areas which help regional development by promoting learning capacity. This development is due to intraction of four physical, economic, social- cultural and organizational proximity in industrial regions. According to above mentioned facts the main purpose of this article is to analyze the impact of industrial networking on learning promotion in “Qazvin” and “Arak” industrial regions (These two province are industrial poles in iran Specially in automobile industry). Research methodology that is applied in this research is descriptive, analytic and comparative. The results in this article are supported by systematic-stratified sampling, data gatherd by in-depth interviews and questionnaires.The results show that there is meaning full correlation between networking and its intensity that represent learning process in networks. Also, studding of industrial networks parameters influencing learning and network topology shows that there is correlation between network structure and learning (straight correlation).
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Ali Reza Darban; Mostafa Haraeeni
Volume 23, Issue 68 , September 2019, , Pages 91-111
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Among the natural disasters of the earthquake, it has a special position because it causes more damage than severe floods and storms, as it occurs almost without fear of any warning. Due to Iran's location on the Alp-Himalayas earthquake belt, earthquakes sometimes shake different regions of the country ...
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Among the natural disasters of the earthquake, it has a special position because it causes more damage than severe floods and storms, as it occurs almost without fear of any warning. Due to Iran's location on the Alp-Himalayas earthquake belt, earthquakes sometimes shake different regions of the country and with their effects and consequences have incurred irreparable damage in various social, economic and environmental dimensions, especially in rural areas. For this reason, it disrupts the development of a settlement or region. Based on numerous studies carried out in Tehran, including the Aftab area in this city, in terms of vulnerability to earthquakes in high risk areas are very high. In this regard, the study of socio-economic capacities of communities in increasing the resilience and recognizing the dimensions of resilience in local communities is important and can be considered in future plans. Accordingly, the present study aims to investigate the socioeconomic resilience capacity and its spatial analysis in the villages of Aphat district in Tehran using primate techniques. Today, resiliency is proposed as a way to strengthen local communities against the natural disasters by using their capacities. In this regard, the aim of this study is to analyze and evaluate the different dimensions of social economic resilience of rural communities in Aftab district of Tehran County.
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Fatemeh Alinezhad Chamazkoti; saeideh Mirhagg
Volume 23, Issue 68 , September 2019, , Pages 307-323
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The growing number of scientific journals’ issues on one hand, and the widespread use and dependence of the scientific community on the other hand, have turned the quantitative and qualitative periodicals review into one of the most important issues in this type of resource evaluation. This research ...
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The growing number of scientific journals’ issues on one hand, and the widespread use and dependence of the scientific community on the other hand, have turned the quantitative and qualitative periodicals review into one of the most important issues in this type of resource evaluation. This research was conducted with the aim of evaluating the scientific products of the authors of Geograohy & Planning from 2015 to 2017. The results show that 186 articles have been published in this journal in these three years. Approximately, 55% of the articles were conducted by the universities’ faculty members through a team collaboration. The results show that the average of co-authorship-rate in these three years was 0.59, which indicates the level of collaboration between authors of this journal. A total of 97 papers were co-authored with the participation of fellow authors from a university and 69 articles from authors of different universities, indicating that this journal’s authors are more inclined to participate in inter-institute activities. Tabriz University, Tehran University and Tarbiat Modares University and Payame Noor University have the most cooperation in producing journal articles.
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Mehdi Karami Dehkordi; hoseyn kohestani; hoseyn yad avar; ramin roshandel
Volume 22, Issue 66 , January 2019, , Pages 207-229
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The main goal of this study is qualitative to analyze of inhibiting factors to use of renewable energies in Chaharmahal VA Bakhtiari province. The paradigm for this study is qualitative and use of the grounded theory method for analyzing. The statistical population consisted of three different groups ...
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The main goal of this study is qualitative to analyze of inhibiting factors to use of renewable energies in Chaharmahal VA Bakhtiari province. The paradigm for this study is qualitative and use of the grounded theory method for analyzing. The statistical population consisted of three different groups (key informants in villages, energy experts in Chaharmahal VA Bakhtiari province and stakeholders in Kahkesh village) that selected by purposed sampling (snow ball method). The data collection process was accomplished with in depth interviews, focus groups and direct observations. This process was continued up to the theoretical saturation point. After data collection, the data were categorized and analyzed by the application of coding system. First of all, open coding, then axial coding and finally selective coding were used respectively. Result showed; information and cultural factor with 10item, politicize with 8 items, education and research with 6 items, human factor and investment factors with 4 items and finally technology item with 3 items in order of priority to have.
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Abazar Esmali Ouri; mohammad Golshan
Volume 22, Issue 65 , November 2018, , Pages 1-18
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Coastal areas of groundwater reserves are of great importance for the management and proper planning in these areas, it is necessary to assessment the state of the aquifers. In this study were study the interaction of fresh and salt water levels in Nur subsections. In this section study was selected ...
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Coastal areas of groundwater reserves are of great importance for the management and proper planning in these areas, it is necessary to assessment the state of the aquifers. In this study were study the interaction of fresh and salt water levels in Nur subsections. In this section study was selected the coastal line with a length of 3000 m. The distance between the points of study in the 500 lengths of shoreline is 50 meters, then 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 meter respectively. To determine the interaction of fresh and salt water were used from equation Verruijt, geophysical, electromagnetic devices and observational data. To the implementation of Verruijt equation necessary parameters were prepared, and interface between freshwater and saltwater were determined using this relationship in May and August. Also geo electric studies using the Mazandaran Regional Water Company information and exploratory wells were investigated. In order to provide information about interaction of fresh and salt water using electromagnetic devices were conducted interface sampling in point studies and the values were recorded. In the study sections to compare the results of studies were used observational data. The results showed that electromagnetic device is very accurate in compared to other methods of study and with use of this device can be determined interfere between fresh and salt water with high confidence.
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fereydon babaei; Abozar Motidoost; Mohammadamin Attar; somayeh roshan roodi
Volume 22, Issue 65 , November 2018, , Pages 63-81
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This research is followed to study relationship between Socio-Economic Status of urban zones and Spatial Segregation in Takab City. In this way to study the relationship between variable of socio-economic status and variable of urban zone. The research is as kind of applied studies and research method ...
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This research is followed to study relationship between Socio-Economic Status of urban zones and Spatial Segregation in Takab City. In this way to study the relationship between variable of socio-economic status and variable of urban zone. The research is as kind of applied studies and research method is survey. The qualitative analysis and statistical tests are used to answer the research questions. Excel and SPSS softwares are used for data analysis. Cross tabulation and Pearson Chi-Square test and Cramer's correlation coefficient and Lambda correlation coefficient and Goodman and Kruskal tau correlation coefficient and uncertainty coefficient are used to determining relationship between variables. Takab city has provided an appropriate field for spatial segregation phenomenon. So that immigration and move of Kurd race from rural areas to the city during the past decades and its entrance mainly from the western side of this city, has caused a tissue with quite residential segregation in his city. The results of this study indicate that there is a significant relationship between variable of socio-economic status and variable of urban zone. In one word, socio-economic status has caused spatial segregation of urban zones in Takab city. Spatial segregation is observed between zone 1 (east and southeast of the city) and zone 2 (the western part of the city) with high density and between zone 3 (the city center) and zone 4 (north and southwest of the city) with a lower density.
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Ahmad hami
Volume 22, Issue 65 , November 2018, , Pages 101-116
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The relationship between plants and perceived safety in residential areas has been argued by landscape researchers, but there is inadequate or no relevant literature available on the effect of plants in urban parks’ safety. Therefore, a photo-questionnaire survey was conducted among urban park ...
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The relationship between plants and perceived safety in residential areas has been argued by landscape researchers, but there is inadequate or no relevant literature available on the effect of plants in urban parks’ safety. Therefore, a photo-questionnaire survey was conducted among urban park users in Tabriz, Iran to gauge the perceived safety of landscape scene with diverse types of texture to discover its effectiveness, especially in relation to the content of the scene. The survey was composed of 296 participants in November, 2012. The result suggested that landscape scene with vast aspect and physical access was perceived safer than the scene with crowded plants and blocked view. The findings demonstrated that a scene without lawn and water is perceived to be less safe than a scene with lawn and features of water. Moreover, landscape scene with more plant species was unsafe as compared to a scene with fewer plant species. This study proved that a landscape designed with ground cover such as lawn, grass and water feature implies increment of perceived safety in urban parks. Likewise, landscape designers should avoid crowded planting in areas, which obstructs visibility in urban parks and reduces perceived safety
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Sajjad Bagheri Seyed Shakeri; Abbas Alipour; saman maroofpour; Seyed Moustafa Hashemi
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Introduction The exploitation of natural water resources requires recognition of the quantity and, in particular, its quality. It is important to study the quality and quantity of flow in the river in order to evaluate its locative changes for its various uses. Usually the flow crossing the river is ...
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Introduction The exploitation of natural water resources requires recognition of the quantity and, in particular, its quality. It is important to study the quality and quantity of flow in the river in order to evaluate its locative changes for its various uses. Usually the flow crossing the river is a source of water supply in various sectors of consumption, including drinking, agriculture and industry. Therefore, knowing the changes in the quality of river flow can have a significant impact on management and planning at harvest time and water consumption, especially drinking. Various studies have been done to predict and study water quality, but in terms of the quality of surface water, less attention has been paid to smart modeling. The superiority of smart models is determined in solving nonlinear and bulky problems that cannot be solved with high precision. Najah et.al (422: 2009) also emphasized the ability of neural networks to predict Malaysian ink's river water quality indices and the ability to estimate electrical conductivity (EC) and total dissolved solids (TDS) values and opacity in this basin. Kunwar et.al (95: 2009) has also used perceptron neural networks to model the quality parameters of the biological oxygen demand (BOD) and dissolved oxygen (DO) of Gottmy river in India and has emphasized its proper efficiency.The main objective of the present research is to construct a soft calculation model for estimating the salinity of the Nisa river flow at the site of the Yalkhary hydrometric station using various input scenarios which in areas such as the present study, there is the problem of data deficits, information, as well as lack of facilities and enough cost, can be done by using an estimation model with acceptable water quality accuracy.
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faramarz barimani; Mehdi Ramezanzadeh; Nazanin Tabrizi; sahand nozarasl
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Worldwide studies show that health is a vital stimulus that encourages older people to participate in tourism (Horneman et al., 2002), and the type of tourism that is encouraged and promoted by health is health tourism. Therefore, the services needed for health tourism are important. Today, health tourism ...
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Worldwide studies show that health is a vital stimulus that encourages older people to participate in tourism (Horneman et al., 2002), and the type of tourism that is encouraged and promoted by health is health tourism. Therefore, the services needed for health tourism are important. Today, health tourism is spreading in a variety of sites, including hot springs, mineral water springs, seas and areas with suitable climate (Pollock et al., 2000), and many countries are competing in this regard. Health tourism is a comprehensive journey focused on developing, maintaining and improving the body, mind and soul (Smith&Kelly, 2006). This type of trip is usually attractive for people over 50 who are economically rich and looking at health tourism as a lifestyle and also have experienced work stress (Smith & Puczko, 2009). Therefore, these activities are intended for the comfort of "people over the age of 50", "older people" and "elderly tourists". (Chen et al., 2013). Therefore, considering the significant global growth of tourism in the hot springs and the natural resources inside the country, it is necessary to make further efforts to achieve a suitable regional and global position in various health tourism branches such as hydrotherapy. Iran has over 1000 mineral springs and Mazandaran province with 40 hot and mineral springs has most resources after West Azerbaijan province. One of the influential and active hubs of the province in this regard is Ramsar.
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Volume 21, Issue 60 , September 2017, , Pages 299-350
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rid and semi-arid regions of the world is mainly characterized by lack or little amount of precipitation as well as irregular tempo-spatial distribution of annual rainfall and highly evapotranspiration. On the other hand, recent permanent drought in East Azerbaijan province has led to a reduction in ...
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rid and semi-arid regions of the world is mainly characterized by lack or little amount of precipitation as well as irregular tempo-spatial distribution of annual rainfall and highly evapotranspiration. On the other hand, recent permanent drought in East Azerbaijan province has led to a reduction in available water resources, a sharp drop in the groundwater levels, Urmia Lake receding and drying and increasing saline lands surrounding the Urmia Lake. Also the orchards and farm lands that seriously depend on groundwater level have been indiscriminately and disproportionately developed related to the climate condition. Therefore, modification of agricultural patterns is the best way to efficient water use in agriculture and is considered as the only practical solution in relation to the sustainable development of agriculture. This study was conducted in order to determine the appropriate area for growing pistachio orchards and replacing it with second and third order of gardens.
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Navid Houshangi; Ali asghar Allsheikh
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Iran is located on the world’s Sun Belt; therefore the required energy of many parts of the country can be generated through photovoltaic systems. One of the most salient characteristic of renewable energy with regard to its conversion and usage is its dependency on geographical location as well ...
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Iran is located on the world’s Sun Belt; therefore the required energy of many parts of the country can be generated through photovoltaic systems. One of the most salient characteristic of renewable energy with regard to its conversion and usage is its dependency on geographical location as well as numerous contradicting factors. A suitable site for solar farm must fulfill a series of economic, conservational, climatic, geographic and demographic considerations simultaneously. This research uses multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), fuzzy principles and GIS tools to evaluate the optimized place of photovoltaic solar power plants in Iran. To achieve this objective, three approaches are considered, namely: TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution), Sugeno-type Fuzzy inference system and fuzzy TOPSIS. After obtaining experts’ opinions, site selection steps have been taken in two main steps: first, the deduction of impossible points (constrained); second, the calculation of location’s potential using raster analysis. The comparison of the above methods showed that Fuzzy TOPSIS؛ from the perspective of continuity and involving elements؛ had better performance. TOPSIS Method 14.71% and fuzzy TOPSIS 18.33% and Sugeno 20.52% of the total area are considered as suitable area for the construction of solar power plants. All three methods had similar results. The priority of country’s sections for locating solar farm locations are estimated as, Narimanshir, Nobandegan, Farajhiand, Bahmanpour, Shibkoh and Gavbandi through all methods with subtle variations.
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Iran is located on the world’s Sun Belt; therefore the required energy of many parts of the country can be generated through photovoltaic systems. Nowadays, with the increasing growth of energy consumption, the tendency to use renewable energy and specifically solar powers is rising. Within 2000 ...
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Iran is located on the world’s Sun Belt; therefore the required energy of many parts of the country can be generated through photovoltaic systems. Nowadays, with the increasing growth of energy consumption, the tendency to use renewable energy and specifically solar powers is rising. Within 2000 to 2007, world energy production increased 10.3 percent per capita (Department of Energy, Iran).This consumption increase in 2030 reaches over 48% and even 60% in 2000. However, disadvantages of fossil energy led international community to use new types of renewable energy. Among the renewable energy forms, solar energy tends to be the cleanest energy and considering potentials of the selected sites, is can be deemed economical, as well.
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All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
Mousa Abedini; Khalil Valizadehkamran; Nader Sarmasti
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Physical expansion of Tabriz metropolitan increases the possibility of earthquakes risks. Given the importance of this issue, this research is trying to pay to monitor the activities and seismic potential of Tabriz fault and the estimates of casualties in Tabriz metropolitan using remote sensing and ...
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Physical expansion of Tabriz metropolitan increases the possibility of earthquakes risks. Given the importance of this issue, this research is trying to pay to monitor the activities and seismic potential of Tabriz fault and the estimates of casualties in Tabriz metropolitan using remote sensing and GIS techniques. To achieve this goal, ASTER satellite image was processed in ENVI 5.3 software. Fault seismic potential is determined with empirical models and average calculations were used as the basis for assessment. The casualties are determined in accordance with the terms of seismicity and structure of our country urban elements, respectively. Based on visual interpretation of satellite data, along Tabriz fault are exposed geomorphic changes that reflect the tectonic activity is in the range of Tabriz metropolitan. Tabriz fault evidences examples of diversion of watercourse Ajichai, cliffs and lens shape phenomenon are most important that have been considered in the interpretation of the activities on satellite images. Based on empirical models, be created in Tabriz fault earthquakes is average of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter scale. Assuming earthquake seismic activity according to Tabriz fault scenario, the total population of about 1605884 of the Tabriz metropolitan was estimated approximate number 1252589 casualties consist of 658412 people dead and 594177 people injury at night
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Afshin Mottaghi
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Elections are the process that citizens can criticize and monitor the politicians and governors. In fact, the elections are the most appropriate democratic way in which the citizens can be interfered in the choosing of government operators. At the same significance, political geography is going to study ...
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Elections are the process that citizens can criticize and monitor the politicians and governors. In fact, the elections are the most appropriate democratic way in which the citizens can be interfered in the choosing of government operators. At the same significance, political geography is going to study and analyze the relation between election and geographical environment in order to conduct the geography of elections into the description of the general patterns of politics and recognition of the process of the government establishment. In this paper, we have studied the effective factors in the victory of, the Candidate of Kazeroun City in the 9th Period of the Iran’s Islamic Parliament Elections. The methodology of the paper is descriptive- analytic. The results of the research show that among the various theories about the sources of poll, composition of Inglehart, Pippa Norris and Chicago give a holistic opinion to studying of the elections. Therefore, in the case of Kazeroun City, it seems that three factors of political experience in the past, economic-social basin and the scheme of political system in the frame of biological foundations played the most roles in the poll of Kazeroun City’s candidate in the 9th period of the Iran’s Islamic Parliament Elections.
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Earthquake is a serious threat for society development and its vulnerability is influenced by environmental variables. The damages of earthquakes are reduced by recognizing these variables and area zoning. The aim of this paper is the zoning of earthquake vulnerability of Sanadaj city based on effective ...
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Earthquake is a serious threat for society development and its vulnerability is influenced by environmental variables. The damages of earthquakes are reduced by recognizing these variables and area zoning. The aim of this paper is the zoning of earthquake vulnerability of Sanadaj city based on effective variables. For this purpose, the final map of region’s natural vulnerability zoning and skeletal indices and other effective social indices have been used. The variables were changed to layers of GIS and then, overlapping were performed using AHP and TOPSIS models. Finally, the vulnerability was classified in five groups from very low to very high. By comparing the results of these two models, it was revealed that these models had a similar vulnerability but they had a difference in which based on AHP model, the regions with very high vulnerability have little fragmentation in contrast with TOPSIS model. Therefore, according to AHP the most fragmentation was occurred in regions with low vulnerability. While, based on TOPSIS, the regions with average vulnerability have the most extension. According to Both models the most vulnerable areas were in the north of Sanandaj city.
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Saeed Jahanbakhsh Asl; Mehdi Asad; Elaheh Akbari
Volume 20, Issue 56 , August 2016, , Pages 55-72
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In this study, for potential survey construction of wind power plants in the provinces of Khorasan Razavi and Northern different criteria and sub-criteria have been considered. To become fuzzy criteria are based on expert opinions and investigation done researches, control point and fuzzy function for ...
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In this study, for potential survey construction of wind power plants in the provinces of Khorasan Razavi and Northern different criteria and sub-criteria have been considered. To become fuzzy criteria are based on expert opinions and investigation done researches, control point and fuzzy function for each of the layers based on their membership gradation range of zero and one was determined in the IDRISI software. Then, according to the importance of integrating information, Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) for layers weighting was implemented by Expert choice software. Then, the software ArcGIS, was used to spatial analysis and overlapping layers, and after the analysis of information, Razavi Khorasan and North Khorasan province, in terms of capability the wind power plants building, divided into four levels: excellent, good, fair and poor. Finally, the results indicated that excellent are as for the construction of wind power plantsin the study area are locatedin thesoutheast ofthe study area at Torbatjam station with an area exceeding 222565.97 hectares (0.018 percent). In addition, good areas are located around the Taybad and Khaaf, Golmakan, Sarakhs, Roshtkhar, Bardaskan, Neyshaboor, Sabzevar, Bojnurd, Ferdows and Jajarm stations with an area exceeding 1817573.81 hectares (0.17 percent). One cans that renewable energy of wind without any pollution could be utilized by the construction of wind power plants in the replaces ultimately.
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Masoud Safaiepour; Hadi Alizadeh
Volume 20, Issue 56 , August 2016, , Pages 193-217
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The research methodology of "descriptive-analytic" with the aim of analyzing the indicators in the assessment of urban development in the catchment Ghaffar has been carried out in area. Indicators of urban development in the area according to available data resources include 12 factors of topography, ...
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The research methodology of "descriptive-analytic" with the aim of analyzing the indicators in the assessment of urban development in the catchment Ghaffar has been carried out in area. Indicators of urban development in the area according to available data resources include 12 factors of topography, vegetation, slope gradient, the land, soil conditions, altitude, power user, the communication area, the hydrology of the region, the economic and social area, region, land use and fault conditions which are classified. To form database and providing required layers of base map we used data on natural resources of Khuzestan. To achieve the status of urban development in Ghaffar catchment conversion layer and software were produced in Arc GIS 10. According to the fuzzy membership functions of the fuzzy map conversion and in order to analyze their situation and assess the model of urban development we offered Ghaffar catchment area a fuzzy gamma operator (Fuzzy Gama). Maps produced in the ArcGIS software and fuzzy process and analysis layers show that among selected indicators about 0.67 of the basin area is not suitable for urban development. Test threshold of 0.7, 0.8 and 0.9 for gamma analysis shows that, Gamma analysis phase with a threshold of 0.7 in accordance with the conditions of the region and consistent with than the limited parts of southeast and east bordering of the catchment areas of basin for urban development is not appropriate.
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Abbas Amini; Tayyebe Zahedei
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Iran''''s rural economy has a decisive role in the whole community for various reasons such as food security and export production supplying, contribution in GDP and value added. As well, it is highly responsible to create the occupation and income opportunities for the rural communities and ...
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Iran''''s rural economy has a decisive role in the whole community for various reasons such as food security and export production supplying, contribution in GDP and value added. As well, it is highly responsible to create the occupation and income opportunities for the rural communities and organize the socio-economic situations in rural areas. This study purposes to assess the floriculture impacts, as a relatively new farming activity in the Lalehzar district rural community of Bardsir township in the Kerman province. Statistical population is rural resident households in four villages of Lalehzar. 250 persons were randomly sampled and interviewed in order to gather the needed primary data. Secondary data required by referring the documentations. The self-organized questionnaire was pretested in order to assess its reliability and realize the main variables variation to estimate the size of the sample. After the statistical description of the sample properties and research variables, further inferential analysis was carried out by employing factor analysis and varimax rotation. Results indicated that the most important impact of the floriculture activity has been shifting the farming systems of the region towards the sustainability which is considered as an environmental impact. Social impacts, mainly in promoting the rural women''''s socio-economic status has been the next major consequence, following the economical impacts such as employment and income earning opportunities provided via lateral activities. Existence of a lot of environmental and peripherals
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yagob Dinpazhouh
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The aim of this study is trend analysis of streamflows of east Azerbaijan using the non-parametric methods. For this purpose the information of consentration of water quality ions (Ca, Mg, Cl, Na, HCo3, pH, So4, TDS, EC, SAR, Total Cations, Total Anions and Na%) of ten hydrometric stations (1983-2008) ...
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The aim of this study is trend analysis of streamflows of east Azerbaijan using the non-parametric methods. For this purpose the information of consentration of water quality ions (Ca, Mg, Cl, Na, HCo3, pH, So4, TDS, EC, SAR, Total Cations, Total Anions and Na%) of ten hydrometric stations (1983-2008) were used. To test trends the Mann-Kendal scheme after removing all significant autocorrelation effects from the data were used. To estimate trend line slope the non-parametric Sen´s estimator method was used. Results showed that trends of positive ions and EC were upward for most of the stations. Those stations which had negative trend in streamflow also exhibited positive trend in concentration of chemical elements of surface water. Furthermore, investigation of streamflow water quality using the Wilcox on method showed that the quality of water declined comparing the last decades. The reason of such declination attributed to the decreasing trend of streamflow and conveying pollutant materials into the rivers.
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Asghar Asghari Moghddam; Mir sajad Fakhri; Morteza Najib
Volume 19, Issue 54 , February 2016, , Pages 19-41
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Purpose of this study is zoning of Marand aquifer vulnerability mapping using DRASTIC, AVI methods and comparing their susceptibility adopted from these methods. The DRASTIC method is a combination of seven measurable hydro-geological characteristics that are effective on transportation of contaminant ...
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Purpose of this study is zoning of Marand aquifer vulnerability mapping using DRASTIC, AVI methods and comparing their susceptibility adopted from these methods. The DRASTIC method is a combination of seven measurable hydro-geological characteristics that are effective on transportation of contaminant into groundwater. The GODS and AVI methods combine four and have two properties respectively. The DRASTIC method results is the most complete index for assessing groundwater vulnerability, which has been estimated the vulnerability for the study area as moderate 50.4 percent, high 32.9 percent and very high16.7 percent. The GODS method results suggest three classes for the Marand aquifer vulnerability including moderate, high and very high with 43.8, 5.16 and 51.04 percent, respectively. Also the AVI method results indicate that the aquifer has a vulnerability of moderate, high and very high with 39.13, 6.5 and 54.37 percent, respectively. In all three methods, the degree of vulnerability in the East, Southeast and Northeast parts of the pain is more than the central and western parts of the pain. DRASTIC model is determined the vulnerability areas more accurately due to having more features and different weighting of the features based on their role in pollution.
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Davod Behboudi; Esmail Barzegarie Dinabad
Volume 19, Issue 54 , February 2016, , Pages 43-60
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Reaction between economic growth and environmental quality is a controversial issue which has been considered since the 1990s. Pressure on the environment due to economic activities not only from environmental aspects but also from the economic point of view is important. The existence of abundant energy ...
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Reaction between economic growth and environmental quality is a controversial issue which has been considered since the 1990s. Pressure on the environment due to economic activities not only from environmental aspects but also from the economic point of view is important. The existence of abundant energy sources in Iran cause the use of them in economic activity exceeding. This will lead to increase environmental pollution in one hand and on another hand, using too much of energy is cause a burden on the environment. In this study, we investigate the relationship between energy consumption as a proxy of environmental pressure and GDP per capita by using the Johansen & Juselius Cointegration econometric method during to 1967-2009. The results show that the correlation between environmental pressures and GDP per capita is the inverse of U shape. Therefore, the increase of per capita GDP growth recommended so is that on the Kuznets curves downward part in stands long run. Also policy makers have to take short run polices that reduce negative externalities as far as economy is at positive part of EKC.
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Sadegh Salehi; Karim Soleymani; Zahra Pazokinejad
Volume 19, Issue 54 , February 2016, , Pages 171-187
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The purpose of this study is to examine students' theoretical and applied knowledge of climate change and social factors influencing it. To conduct the research, descriptive-analytical method was used and 187 students of Mazandaran state universities were selected by stratified sampling. The questionnaire ...
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The purpose of this study is to examine students' theoretical and applied knowledge of climate change and social factors influencing it. To conduct the research, descriptive-analytical method was used and 187 students of Mazandaran state universities were selected by stratified sampling. The questionnaire was applied to collect data then data was analyzed using SPSS statistical software. Results of the study showed that the level of students’ abstract and practical knowledge of climate change is high and there is relationship between environmental information sources, perceived performance and students' knowledge of climate change. The results showed no significant difference between level of knowledge and gender and place of residence of the surveyed students and students’ knowledge of climate change is different to college. Overall, the results indicate that there is a requirement of environmental education and this suggests that the subject matter of climate change and policies should be included in curriculum of all university courses.
All other Geographic fields of studies , Interdisciplinary
Fatemeh Alinejad Chamazkoti; Saeedeh Mirhaghjoo Langroodi
Volume 19, Issue 54 , February 2016, , Pages 329-344
Abstract
Scientific capacity is one of the key factors contributing to sustainable development in a country. The development of scientific capacity requires improvement in scientific publication and productions. This study aimed to investigate the publishing condition of the articles in the Journal of Geography ...
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Scientific capacity is one of the key factors contributing to sustainable development in a country. The development of scientific capacity requires improvement in scientific publication and productions. This study aimed to investigate the publishing condition of the articles in the Journal of Geography and Planning during 2010-2014. The study adopted a descriptive method and survey design. The results showed that the Journal has published a number of 201 articles over the studied period. Of the published articles, 87% were co-authored by multiple writers. The co-authorship was mostly in the form of intra-institutional contribution. The mean score of collaboration degree was 0.87 while the mean score of collaboration index was shown to be 2.53, which indicates strong co-authorship relations among the Journal contributors. The highest collaboration percentage was observed between two and three authors. With 97 articles, the authors affiliated with TabrizUniversity published about 50% of articles in the Journal. Thus, TabrizUniversity was the most prolific institution.
