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<title> SPACE ECONOMY & RURAL DEVELOPMENT </title>
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<description> - Journal articles for year 2014, Volume 3, Number 9</description>
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<pubDate>2014/11/10</pubDate>

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						<title>The Factors of effective on growth of entrepreneurship in rural areas Case: Jaber Ansar District Abdanan</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2148&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Nowadays, low job offers, unemployment and rural poverty are being considered as a&amp;nbsp;major driving force for rural- urban migration. This in turn may cause some problems&amp;nbsp;both for rural and urban communities as well as some challenges with respect toachievement of sustainable rural communities. &amp;nbsp;Taking into account these challenges,&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurs through their creative economic efforts could be helpful regarding&amp;nbsp;economic improvement of rural areas. Even though the major motive behind this sort of&amp;nbsp;activities is private benefit but they could provide proper atmosphere for entrepreneurial&amp;nbsp;ship at local, regional and national level. Rural communities taking into account their&amp;nbsp;physical, social and economic situations simultaneously could offer both opportunity&amp;nbsp;and weakness regarding entrepreneurial ship. It is argued that the development of&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurial activities in rural areas must be based on rural capabilities in order to be&amp;nbsp;successful and head toward sustainability. Jaber Ansar district located in central part of&amp;nbsp;Abdanan, taking into account its prominent characteristics including proximity to urban&amp;nbsp;areas, possession of active handicraft, the existence of fertile agricultural lands and&amp;nbsp;natural resource abundance, possess high entrepreneurial potentials at local and regionalnevel. The major objective of this study is to investigate sustainable rural development&amp;nbsp;potential from entrepreneurial ship and employment aspect in the study area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;The type of study of this study is explorative. It is based on descriptive- analytical&amp;nbsp;research method. It is further supported by documentation and field works including&amp;nbsp;questionnaire, interviews and observation. The study area is Jaber Ansar district located&amp;nbsp;in Abdanan. Statistical society is composed of head of households were selected&amp;nbsp;through application of Cochran formula and random sampling technique. The&amp;nbsp;questionnaires were composed of four components and 32 indicators related to&amp;nbsp;entrepreneurial development and rural employment. The data analysis further demands&amp;nbsp;application of descriptive statistics and principal component analysis and SPSS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;According to principle component analysis results in the study area, eight factors&amp;nbsp;including infra-structure, economic, awareness, self-confidence, personal creativity,innovative capabilities, physical infra structures and access to different facilities have&amp;nbsp;prominent impacts upon sustainable development from entrepreneur aspects. These&amp;nbsp;factors are capable of explaining 75.25% of the variation. Infra structural and social&amp;nbsp;factor with eigenvalue of 5.63% is the major factor and is capable of explaining 17.60%&amp;nbsp;of the variation. This is followed by economic factor as the second major one with the&amp;nbsp;eigenvalue of 4.48%. It is capable of explaining 14.01 % of the variation. The least&amp;nbsp;important factor is access to economic. Facilities eigenvalue is % 44 and capable of&amp;nbsp;explaining 4.51% of the variation. It may be concluded that the improvement of&amp;nbsp;appropriate public infra&amp;ndash;structures including provision of drinking water, electricity and&amp;nbsp;fuel, proper communications as well as transportation facilities, post banks, well&amp;nbsp;designed and equipped transportation systems for shipping commodities to markets,&amp;nbsp;access to skilled and literate labor force are all being considered as influential factors for&amp;nbsp;provision of needed potentials and pave the way for entrepreneurship. It is argued that&amp;nbsp;economic development in rural areas requires new strategies. This in turn is associated&amp;nbsp;with entrepreneurship and environmental policies. Thus economically speaking&amp;nbsp;entrepreneur plans in the study areas would be fairly effective needed for creation of&amp;nbsp;occupation, special credit facilities sufficient funds for small businesses, awarding low&amp;nbsp;interest rate and non-paying back loans especially in deprived areas are among some of&amp;nbsp;the recommended measures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Hossein Farahani</author>
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						<title>The evaluation and assessment of deprivation level in rural areas Case: central part of Javanrood</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2149&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Poverty and deprivation are being considered as one of the master problem for the&amp;nbsp;government more specifically for planners in many countries. Deprivation and&amp;nbsp;combating these phenomena are in the center of regional planning. In fact regional&amp;nbsp;balance attainment is being pursued as a mater regional planning target. Achieving this&amp;nbsp;goal demands identification of back ward and deprived regions however the&amp;nbsp;identification of these areas faces some ambiguity. Lack of clear and comprehensive&amp;nbsp;definition of deprivation in general and rural deprivation in particular, leads to over&amp;nbsp;lapping and interfering of poverty, deprivation and underdevelopment concepts. This is&amp;nbsp;associated with lack of an appropriate measure for the assessment of rural deprivation&amp;nbsp;and its process. However, more attention was devoted to objective depravation measure&amp;nbsp;and indices as opposed to subjective ones. This in turn, demands scientific technique.&amp;nbsp;Depravation is highly affected by temporal and spatial dimensions. That is, its&amp;nbsp;corresponding components and elements are different both time and space wise. There&amp;nbsp;exist many methods and a technique regarding the assessment of deprivation at national,&amp;nbsp;regional, rural and urban levels each is associated with specific measures. Thus,&amp;nbsp;designing appropriate measures for assessment of depravation level at different level is&amp;nbsp;inevitable. This study aims to propose a proper definition as well as appropriate&amp;nbsp;corresponding measures and indices for assessing rural depravation. Doing so requires&amp;nbsp;application of five groups of both subjective and objective measures with economic&amp;nbsp;social and environmental dimensions (sustainable approach) at regional level that is&amp;nbsp;village level. This demands the proposition of two following questions associated with&amp;nbsp;corresponding hypothesis: Which indices and measures would be the best fit for&amp;nbsp;assessment of depravation level of Java rood bordered county? Is there any area of the&amp;nbsp;study area as for as the depravation significant difference between rural levels is&amp;nbsp;concerned? Application of both subjective and objective indices and measures is more&amp;nbsp;capable of this kind of assessment. Furthermore, there exists a possibility of difference&amp;nbsp;among rural areas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;This study is based on documentation as well as field works. This is followed by&amp;nbsp;distribution of two types one decomposes indices associated with both subjective and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;objective measures. Which were determined after getting feedback from social science,&amp;nbsp;economic, sociology, geography and planning experts. After this scientific&amp;nbsp;confirmation, the second and final questionnaires were designed in order to identify&amp;nbsp;different villages based on depravation level. This included both close and open-ended&amp;nbsp;questions regarding housing status send to rural households. After gathering the needed&amp;nbsp;data out of questionnaires and coding them through SPSS, the hypotheses were tested.&amp;nbsp;Moreover, TOPSIS was applied for ranking villages based on their deprivation levels.&amp;nbsp;Through application of the clustering analysis, villages were grouped in to 3 clusters.&amp;nbsp;The finding this study further represented through GIS illustrations. The study area is&amp;nbsp;central section of Javan Rood (Kermanshah) composed of 2 districts and 78 hamlets.&amp;nbsp;Random classified sampling technique led to selection of 10 villages. The application of&amp;nbsp;Cochran formula at 95% confident level at 0.5 probabilities led to 190 sample size. This&amp;nbsp;study is associated with objective and subjective measures and 42 indices dimension&amp;nbsp;which all tested with social, economic and environmental.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Under development and depravation with sustainability approach could be assessed&amp;nbsp;using environmental, economic and social dimensions along with subjective and&amp;nbsp;objective measures and indices. It is argued that subjective measures comparing with&amp;nbsp;the objective ones possess more weight and magnitude regarding depravation level. In&amp;nbsp;as much as having relative prosperity is prerequisite for development thus, assessing&amp;nbsp;depravation level and orienting toward sustainable development as an ultimate goal of&amp;nbsp;planning require application of both subjective and objective measures and indices. It is&amp;nbsp;argued that all research and development plans need application of subjective measures&amp;nbsp;capable of perceiving all real aspect of life. Thus all depravation studied need to&amp;nbsp;consider both type of measures and indices. Since one society may not be deprived in&amp;nbsp;terms of objective measures standpoint. Subjective measures and indices emphasize&amp;nbsp;attitudes. However, objective measures stress realities. Depravation is highly affected&amp;nbsp;by spatial and temporal varied both dimensions and its components and factors time&amp;nbsp;wise and space-wise. Assessment of subjective measures demands application of&amp;nbsp;questionnaire. However objective measures are based on statistic. This study confirms&amp;nbsp;the importance of subjective measures. In addition there exists a significant difference&amp;nbsp;among different villages in terms of depravation level. In rural development process, the&amp;nbsp;promotion and improvement of all rural areas is recommended. However, more&amp;nbsp;attention should be devoted to depravation villages. Achieving sustainable development&amp;nbsp;demands the application of balanced pattern with emphasis upon weaknesses and&amp;nbsp;injustice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Mehdi Pourtaheri</author>
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						<title>Shiraz Urban Sprawl and Its Structural-Functional Changes of Rural Neighborhood Case: Goyom village</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2150&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Urban sprawl is one kind of urban expansion or its characteristics, which has a negative&amp;nbsp;general view. Based on given definitions, the most important characteristics of urban&amp;nbsp;sprawl can be thought as low-density, strip like, diffuse, non-continues and land use&amp;nbsp;segregation expansion. However, density is the most common criteria of urban sprawl&amp;nbsp;that is derive by the comparison of percentage of built-up area to urban population&amp;nbsp;growth. This phenomenon, regardless of its causes and characteristics, can be defined as&amp;nbsp;growing less density residential area outwards from a central dense no-attractive with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;environmentally unstable urban core. In the middle of 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify; font-size: 8pt; &quot;&gt;th &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot; style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;century, the base for socioeconomic and spatial development in developing countries is generally based on&amp;nbsp;renovation theory, industrial growth approach (strategy), polar development strategy.&amp;nbsp;During 1960 decade, in many countries, this approach considered as a tool for policy&amp;nbsp;making in local and global land use planning and implemented by the financial support&amp;nbsp;of government and international institutions. In opposite to developed countries, this&amp;nbsp;orientation in developing countries causes concentration of resources and infrastructure&amp;nbsp;of development in national and regional growth centers, a need for industrial labor,&amp;nbsp;unexpected migration of rural-urban population, a need for new spaces urban expansionmin its neighborhoods. During this trend, in spite of being agricultural and productive&amp;nbsp;places, villages are gradually becoming centers of consumption.&amp;nbsp;Such an orientation has been implemented in Iran from the beginning of this century&amp;nbsp;and continued with more accelerated form from 1335. Polar growth strategy during&amp;nbsp;1347 to 1356 in the framework of forth (1347-51) and fifth (1352-56) development plan&amp;nbsp;has been used as base for national and regional planning. These orientations caused&amp;nbsp;concentration of resources and infrastructure of development in national and regional&amp;nbsp;growth centers, a gap in the levels of regional and built-up development, a vast and&amp;nbsp;comprehensive urban sprawl and structural-physical changes( i.e. land use changes). For&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;instant, the rate of rural population has been reduced from 68.58 percent in 1335 to&amp;nbsp;62.02, 52.97, 45.71, 38.69, 31.45 in 1345, 1355, 1365, 1375 and 1385 respectively.&amp;nbsp;Shiraz city is one of the county&amp;rsquo;s developmental centers in the southern Zagros. Its&amp;nbsp;expansion trend from 1330 decade onwards has been in such a way that during different&amp;nbsp;period extended continuous or non-continuous towards fringe especially in the direction&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;of its main axe and followed topography. This trend caused a change in economic&amp;nbsp;functionality of residential areas (Shiraz) from agricultural tasks to multi-tasks (with&amp;nbsp;more service sector activity), annexation and merging of some villages and vast changes&amp;nbsp;in its social, structural, spatial and political aspects. Goyom village (the center of Darak&amp;nbsp;County) located in the 20 km North West of Shiraz and near Shiraz-Ardekan&amp;nbsp;transportation network has severely affected by Shiraz urban sprawl and has undertaken&amp;nbsp;dramatic structural-functional changes. This research has attempted to answer to this&amp;nbsp;question that what are the structural-functional changes in Goyom village during 1380&amp;nbsp;to 1390 due to Shiraz urban sprawl. The aim of this paper is to define and describe the&amp;nbsp;structural-functional change trend of Goyom village as a fringe shelter of Shiraz urban&amp;nbsp;area.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;This work with respect to its aim is fundamental-applied research and essentially is a&amp;nbsp;descriptive- analytical research. Research approach is structural-functional which is&amp;nbsp;done in global and strategy levels. Statistical coverage of this research is Shiraz city,&amp;nbsp;township, and Goyom village. Information needed for this this study has been obtained&amp;nbsp;though library and field work. In this research, geographical information systems use to&amp;nbsp;analyze rate, direction, pattern, shape of Shiraz urban sprawl during 1335-1385 and&amp;nbsp;Goyom village during 1380-1390. Three parameters economy, society, space, and their&amp;nbsp;24 indices used as base for this work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Results:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Goyom village has affected by Shiraz urban sprawl during 1380- 1390 and extensively&amp;nbsp;faced by structural-functional changes. In this decade, this village has become most&amp;nbsp;attractive migrant neighborhood around Shiraz city and its area has increased by 3.3.&amp;nbsp;Additionally, 59.3 percent of Goyom populations are employed in the service sector and32.2 percent of Goyom populations are employed in industrial sector.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Musa Kamanroudi kajvari</author>
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						<title>Changes of agricultural economy and formation of urban ruralization Case: villages of Roobat Karim County</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2151&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Rural regions have experienced varied changes and social and economic reconstruction&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;during last three decades. There exists great tendency toward functional integration&amp;nbsp;between villages and cities due to increase in mobility, improvement in communication&amp;nbsp;information as well as rural services. This in turn, resulted in the expansion of urban&amp;nbsp;function including construction mass housing units, production, services, recreations&amp;nbsp;and tourism activities in these regions. These functional changes case conversion in the&amp;nbsp;nature of rural areas based on agricultural production, into consumption-orientation&amp;nbsp;center. This new entities are non-homogeneous. This situation is influenced by many&amp;nbsp;factors including physical conditions such as geographic location, isolation, and&amp;nbsp;characteristics, climatic and sometimes human differences responsible for rural&amp;nbsp;economic and social variations. Taking into account these variations and nonhomogeneities in rural area, efficient and optimum development plans are nonexistence. Increase in urban-ruralization around Tehran metropolitan has led to major&amp;nbsp;physical, economic, social and cultural consequences. Lack of identification of the&amp;nbsp;major relevant roots and sources has led to expansion of these negative consequences to&amp;nbsp;other identical places. This in turn, demands the identification of the responsible factors&amp;nbsp;and its change processes and mechanisms. Thus, the identification, explanations,&amp;nbsp;exploration of those laws and frame works pertaining to urban ruralization as a major&amp;nbsp;topical-spatial phenomenon is highly recommended. The first step in this regard is the&amp;nbsp;determination, definition and assessment of ruralization and more specifically urbanruralization. The study area is Roobat Karim located in the vicinity of Tehran&amp;nbsp;metropolitan. It is followed by determination of degree of ruralization as well as majorresponsible relevant factors.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Taking into account the nature and the objective of the study, descriptive-analytical&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;method was chosen. Based on theoretical foundation of the study, there exist different&amp;nbsp;methods and indices regarding the identification and classification of ruralization. This&amp;nbsp;study concentrates on two dimensions including village&amp;rsquo;s functions and population and&amp;nbsp;its growth during 1976-2011. It is followed by application of PROMETHEE multi&amp;nbsp;indices decision making method in order to determine village&amp;rsquo;s functional status&amp;nbsp;through emphasis on agricultural activities. This study further demands hierarchical&amp;nbsp;clustering technique for classification of the villages. Finally, Clack ruralization indices&amp;nbsp;as well as field survey were applied for determination of the village type in this regard.&amp;nbsp;Furthermore, with respect to those villages which urban ruralization occurred,&amp;nbsp;qualitative method of base theory that is Grounded theory was applied in order to&amp;nbsp;identify the responsible factors. At first step interview with rural key official persons&amp;nbsp;and with those with long history of residency (31) was implemented in order to find the&amp;nbsp;casual conditions pertaining to formation and expansion of urban ruralization&amp;nbsp;phenomena. In the second step, taking into account the methodology of the base theory,&amp;nbsp;open coding was done. Regarding this step those relevant raw data were both labeled&amp;nbsp;and conceptualized. Following, the second and third steps sub-classes are divided into&amp;nbsp;broad concepts and those were divided into nodal concepts.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;This study concludes that based on application of base theory in 8 villages, many factors&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;including life desirability comparing with place of birth and adjacent settlements, lack&amp;nbsp;of special costs, inexpensive business, lack of cultural barriers, variation in job&amp;nbsp;opportunities, existence of different rents, economic and political structures are among&amp;nbsp;some of the influential factors regarding urban-ruralization phenomena. It is furtherargued that income and saving level, the nature of center-periphery theory, capital&amp;nbsp;accumulation system, discrimination with respect to poverty issue, imbalanced&amp;nbsp;distribution of power, wealth, income and access to job opportunities are other&amp;nbsp;determinant factors as well. Incapacity with respect to attraction of external capitals for&amp;nbsp;creation of job opportunities, shortage of complementary jobs to combat seasoned&amp;nbsp;unemployment, lack of potential for absorbing educated and well equipped social&amp;nbsp;capital, lack of technical and vocational training related to appropriate agricultural&amp;nbsp;technology, shortages of ample suitable agricultural lands and lack of knowledge of&amp;nbsp;environmental conservation are among other responsible variables in this regard.&amp;nbsp;Moreover, lack of appropriate and efficient agricultural market systems as well as&amp;nbsp;cooperation&amp;rsquo;s and ware houses, need for government and other institutions supports,&amp;nbsp;incapability in formation of industrial clusters, lack of tendency regarding economic&amp;nbsp;background good for villages, management, the formation of two different construction&amp;nbsp;types, land price and its relevant speculation, property rent, lack of effective control&amp;nbsp;upon rural physical development, economic household participation and lack of social&amp;nbsp;responsibility and self-reliance and easy accessibility to Tehran metropolitan all are&amp;nbsp;responsible regarding degree of ruralization of Roobat Karim.&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Ali Ghanbari Nasab</author>
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						<title>Spatial organizational arrangement of tourism destinations (rural-urban) at regional level Case: Torgabeh shandiz</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2152&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Current trend regarding tourism spatial development both at macro and micro regional&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;level, following the county spatial development structure is relatively chaotic. There&amp;nbsp;exist an imbalance with respect to access to different opportunities as well as resources&amp;nbsp;and benefits. The consequences of this disorder is exemplified itself in low performance&amp;nbsp;of peripheral tourism destinations as opposed to tourism poles. This in turn, will lead to&amp;nbsp;concentration of growth in prominent tourism destinations and lagging behind&amp;nbsp;peripheral ones. These gaps and spatial discrepancies associated with passing problems&amp;nbsp;and challenges from undeveloped spaces into well-developed tourism destinations.&amp;nbsp;Effective utilization of tourism capabilities as well as attaining an appropriate spatial&amp;nbsp;arrangement of tourism destinations, relationships and linkages, having control over&amp;nbsp;growth and development, and achieving sustainable tourism, all demand tourism spatial&amp;nbsp;planning. This not only paves the way for satisfying tourists varied needs in accordance&amp;nbsp;with tourism capabilities at national and regional levels, but also would be very&amp;nbsp;beneficial for host communities as well, taking into consideration the tourism&amp;nbsp;development driving forces. This spatial balance could an affect image formation of&amp;nbsp;destination one could illustrate and cluster different sectors of particular destination via&amp;nbsp;spatial arrangement including nodes, axes and areas. The comprehensive analysis of&amp;nbsp;these spatial arrangements and clustering could lead to location identity and providing a&amp;nbsp;transparent image for destinations. This study predominantly aims to focus on spatial&amp;nbsp;arrangement with emphasis on optimization of the organizational arrangement as well&amp;nbsp;as associated activities and corresponding linkages. The study area that is Torgabeh&amp;nbsp;Shandiz in Khorasan Razavi experiencing spatial disorders and imbalances regarding&amp;nbsp;tourism resource distributions, attractions, products, supportive and logistics services.&amp;nbsp;This study further tries to find the missing links and existing gaps regarding spatial&amp;nbsp;organization of the current tourism destinations stating and propose balanced and&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;integrated pattern at regional level in order to achieve sustainable tourism development&amp;nbsp;in the study area.&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Taking into consideration the objective of this study, analytical-descriptive research&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;method were applied. This is followed by documentation as well as field works. The&amp;nbsp;statistical society includes 34 potential and active tourism destinations (2 towns and 32&amp;nbsp;villages) in Torgabeh Shandiz. Based on relevant literatures three components &amp;ndash;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;destination potentials&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;destination functions&amp;rdquo;, and &amp;ldquo;destination accessibilities&amp;rdquo; and 8&amp;nbsp;indexes including &amp;ldquo;the quality of tourism assets&amp;rdquo; the quantity of tourism assets, &amp;ldquo;tourism&amp;nbsp;functions regarding provision of services&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;public services functions&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;accessibilities&amp;rdquo;,&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;quality of accessibilities&amp;rdquo; spatial dimensions &amp;ldquo;physical situation&amp;rdquo; were identified. This&amp;nbsp;is followed by application of AHP for determining the magnitude of each yardstick.&amp;nbsp;Final scoring and ranking destinations further demand PROMETHEE technique as well&amp;nbsp;as clustering analysis. It finally supported by fracture point theory through application&amp;nbsp;of GIS.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;This study suggests the existence of four unorganized levels systems in spatial&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;organization of the city. This means, there exist two prime destinations that is Torgabeh&amp;nbsp;and Shandiz. In order to alleviate this case, the application of strategic principles of&amp;nbsp;spatial organization is recommended. This could be done through comparison of the&amp;nbsp;current situation with abstract one and further to modify it in accordance with regional&amp;nbsp;characteristics. The proposed spatial organization of Torgabeh-Shandiz could be help&amp;nbsp;full regarding investments in social-economic infrastructures and provision of&amp;nbsp;complementary &amp;ndash; rational and justice relations among different destinations. The&amp;nbsp;proposed spatial organization is based on four hierarchical levels in which the first level&amp;nbsp;corresponds with tourism poles (Torgabeh and Shandiz). The second level is associated&amp;nbsp;with tourism growth centers (Virani, Kang &amp; Azghad). The third level includes (Mayan&amp;nbsp;Vosta, Dehno, Sar asiab, Kelate ahan, Kelate ebrahimkhan &amp; Khanrood). The base ofthis proposed system is comprised 18 sate lite destinations.&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Mahmoud Ziaee</author>
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						<title>Influential factors related to practicality of entrepreneurial ideas Case: internships practitioners involved in rural education bases in Isfahan Province</title>
						<link>http://system.khu.ac.ir/serd/browse.php?a_id=2153&amp;sid=1&amp;slc_lang=en</link>
						<description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;The formation of idea is being considered as a first step regarding the creation of new&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;innovative thoughts in any organization. That is idea processing is an important phase&amp;nbsp;regarding the development of new products as well as innovations. Idea about new&amp;nbsp;products processes and markets create new opportunities which potentially is capable of&amp;nbsp;new innovations. This in turn, accelerates and improves organizational functionality.&amp;nbsp;The development of new idea provides organization with competence capabilities at&amp;nbsp;global level. This is a prerequisite for any organization as far as the success issue is&amp;nbsp;concerned. In fact, creativity of the workers associated with level of technology and&amp;nbsp;market presence is a major asset of any organization. The high speed of information&amp;nbsp;flow made some organizations incapable of appropriate competition. This could demand&amp;nbsp;application of continuous flow of ideas to fuel the innovation those practitioners&amp;nbsp;associated with technical and vocational organizations could be considered as major&amp;nbsp;source of new ideas. However, the development as well as the practicalities of new&amp;nbsp;ideas demands specific institutional and social backgrounds. People pertaining to&amp;nbsp;different groups are better able to interchange ideas. The major objective of this paper is&amp;nbsp;to identify the prominent factors responsible for functionality of entrepreneurial ideas&amp;nbsp;regarding internship practitioners in rural educational base associated with Isfahan&amp;nbsp;office of technical and vocational education.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;This study is based on descriptive-analytical research method along with application of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;questionnaires. Statistical participation led society comprised of 2300 interns who in&amp;nbsp;rural technical-vocational educational base in Isfahan during 2011-2014 training period.&amp;nbsp;322 questionnaires were determined to be appropriate for the analysis. This study&amp;nbsp;further supported by application of Cochran formula and classified random sampling.&amp;nbsp;The viability of &amp;nbsp;thequestionnaire first based on Isfahan technical vocational expert view&amp;nbsp;points and through Kronbakh varied between 0.88 - 0.940. This study further demands&amp;nbsp;application of principle component analysis, in other to deduct the number of influential&amp;nbsp;variables into relevant factor. Eigenvalue more than 1 was determined as a base for&amp;nbsp;extraction of significant factors. Varimax rotation was applied as well. This study&amp;nbsp;further requires U Mann-Whitney &amp; Kruskal Wallis in order to compare averages&amp;nbsp;pertaining to extracted factors related to respondent groups.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;In spite of positive altitude of the respondents to ward training activities, due to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;existence of certain circumstances in clouding lack of familiarity as well as accessibility&amp;nbsp;regarding creation of entrepreneurial ideas, internets, social press media and&amp;nbsp;newspapers, these ideas did not get a chance to be productive and practical. Moreover,&amp;nbsp;external factors such as physical and financial resources and facilities had lower impacts&amp;nbsp;regarding the conversion of ideas into opportunities. Finally, family supports and social&amp;nbsp;capital components due to small rural settlements as well as the composition of the&amp;nbsp;respondent groups (female as a major group), need to be considered as well.&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh</author>
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						<title>Draught and its economic consequences in rural area Case: Dodangeh district Behbahan</title>
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						<description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;Draught is being considered as a climatic reality in arid and semi-arid regions such as Iran.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Drought is capable of generating drastic impacts over water and soil resources, vegetation,&amp;nbsp;animals and human beings. Water is a prominent factor as far as agricultural product is&amp;nbsp;concerned specially in arid zones. Draught and its impact on water resources will bear&amp;nbsp;unpleasant consequences namely for rural settlers whose livelihood depend on agricultural&amp;nbsp;pursuit.it is argued that draught will lead to set of complicated environmental, economic and&amp;nbsp;social impacts. Taking into account the frequency of its occurrence, extent and complexity it&amp;nbsp;demands more attention regarding the identification of its impacts. There is not a rigid&amp;nbsp;agreement regarding the definition of this phenomenon. This in turn will lead to some&amp;nbsp;complexities with respect to the assessment of draught. There exist different measures for&amp;nbsp;simulation of rainfalls, water surface run offs as well as other water resources. This helps to&amp;nbsp;come up with clear images of climatic and hydrological draught. There exist different indices&amp;nbsp;for measuring rainfall deviation from average including SPI and SDI. Lack of sufficient&amp;nbsp;knowledge&amp;rsquo;s and understanding with respect to impacts is being considered as other complexity&amp;nbsp;regarding the inter partition of draught. In spite of high occurrence and the great magnitude of&amp;nbsp;draught, little attention paid to explanation of its impacts. According to the relevant statistics 22&amp;nbsp;% of economic damages resulted from natural hazard is associated with draught. 33 % of people&amp;nbsp;are being affected by draught. In the countries based on agriculture economy, impact of draught&amp;nbsp;could be evidenced by low surface water supply and underground waters. This in turn, is&amp;nbsp;responsible for reduction in water supply as well as water quality, low level of crops production,&amp;nbsp;productivity, and crisis regarding food an increase in livestock death. On the other hand,&amp;nbsp;drought impacts could exemplify it in economic, social and environmental impacts including&amp;nbsp;decrease in household incomes, reduction in substitute income resources, and increase in both&amp;nbsp;hours and volume work, conflict regarding water utilization, food deficiencies, malnutrition,&amp;nbsp;low level of health, and accessibility to sanitation services, low education possibilities, unequal&amp;nbsp;access to financial supports. Moreover, increase in rural migration, lack of power, low life&amp;nbsp;quality, destruction of natural habitats, low productivity of forests and pastures, increase in&amp;nbsp;temperature as well as evaporation, low soil productivity, reduction in water resources,&amp;nbsp;pollution, increase in fire incidence are among other impacts. Variation in spatial and temporal&amp;nbsp;scale of its draught turns it into a very unique phenomenon. It is argued that draught impacts are&amp;nbsp;result of natural interaction (low rainfall) and the way respondents respond. Most of draught&amp;nbsp;studies predominantly are concentrated at national level. However, well documented&amp;nbsp;information regarding draught impacts is nonexistence. This study aims to investigate draught&amp;nbsp;impacts and its influential responsible factors at rural household level.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;The research method is based on descriptive-analytical method. Needed data were obtained&amp;nbsp;through survey in Dodangeh Behbahan. It is located in north-western part of Behbahan.&amp;nbsp;Statistical society includes all of peasant households reside in village with 20 and over&amp;nbsp;households (2865). Cochran formula was used in order to determine the sample size. This led to&amp;nbsp;extraction of 339 peasants which were interviewed. Its viability was determined using relevant&amp;nbsp;expert&amp;rsquo;s viewpoints. This study further demands application of standard rainfall indices in order&amp;nbsp;to determine the magnitude and continuity of climatic and hydrologic draughts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Current wide spread and server drought exerted considerable damage in Dodangeh rural&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;economy. Efforts toward mitigation of economic impacts of draught require the identification of&amp;nbsp;characteristics of this phenomenon. This study suggests that the assessment and evaluation of&amp;nbsp;intensity and continuity of draught would well be done through application of standard rainfall&amp;nbsp;and surface run offs. It further indicates that drought as a complex phenomenon is capable of&amp;nbsp;increasing the vulnerability of the rural households. Certain economic impacts of draught are&amp;nbsp;unexpected. Contrary to other draught studies results, agricultural lands have not been shirked.&amp;nbsp;This has something to do with lack of due information regarding moisture status. The&amp;nbsp;identification of draught risk is prerequisite for mitigation of farmer&amp;rsquo;s vulnerabilities. This in&amp;nbsp;turn demands the application of sound and influential drought management based on&amp;nbsp;information and relevant knowledge. In as much as agriculture is the most prominent livelihood&amp;nbsp;in the region thus providing non-agricultural occupations help to reduce the level of&amp;nbsp;vulnerability. Therefore, policies and measures for generating non-agricultural jobs in regions&amp;nbsp;with high subjectivity to draught are highly recommended. According to the finding of this&amp;nbsp;study, selling livestock&amp;rsquo;s and agricultural land are among some strategies for combating against&amp;nbsp;draught taken by farmers. It is recommended that vulnerability of farmers, long run impacts and&amp;nbsp;management issue all need to be considered. Moreover, improvement in extension services&amp;nbsp;through provision of computable mechanism suited with draught condition assists mitigation of&amp;nbsp;draught unpleasant impacts based on regression analysis, the amount of farmers debts, financial&amp;nbsp;ability, age and households expenditure are the major variables as far as households&amp;nbsp;vulnerability to draught is concerned. Furthermore, provision of financial and social support&amp;nbsp;system is highly suggested.&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Hamid Reza Moradi</author>
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						<title>The evaluation of social impacts of industrial towns over rural areas Case: Khayam industrial town</title>
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						<description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Introduction:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle1&quot;&gt;The achievement of technical improvement during last three decades is being&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;considered as major reason regarding growth and development in developed countries.&amp;nbsp;Practically, with respect to advanced countries, more emphasis is devoted to&amp;nbsp;diversification of rural economy as far as sustainability issue is concerned. According to&amp;nbsp;major researches, rural regions could not achieve sustainability by just relying on one&amp;nbsp;type of livelihood especially regarding to arid areas. The impact of industries upon rural&amp;nbsp;regions is associated with multiplier affects. It is argued that any structural change&amp;nbsp;through industrialization not only enhance rural economy, but also could lead to wide&amp;nbsp;and broad transformations in all other aspects as well. It is associated with positive&amp;nbsp;impacts including changes in culture, and social structure of the traditional villages. In&amp;nbsp;general, that part of agricultural sector which possess great harmony with rural&amp;nbsp;population, would be prime activity as opposed to service and industrial sectors. The&amp;nbsp;share of agricultural sector regarding gross domestic product has been continuously&amp;nbsp;plummeted. It has been 5.18 in 2006. Word wide agricultural products are not just being&amp;nbsp;considered as rural products. That is rural economy is being diversified. Industry more&amp;nbsp;specifically processing and handicrafts are among major sector of rural economy. An&amp;nbsp;introduction of industries into rural areas not only influence the village from economic&amp;nbsp;standpoint, but also is bears its impact upon other sectors of the rural areas as well The&amp;nbsp;most important impact deals with social systems and its resultant complications. These&amp;nbsp;impacts over individual and personal culture are more pronounced. This in turn, is&amp;nbsp;influenced by other factors as well. Of course one who works in the computer company&amp;nbsp;with peasants, working in rice paddies in Thailand behave differently. According to past&amp;nbsp;study, could be viewed by two approaches; is rural industrialization one approach is&amp;nbsp;based on Carl Marx idem logy how believed in the impact of industrialization upon&amp;nbsp;society. However, the opponent of this group criticize the negative role of&amp;nbsp;industrialization through prevalence of believe that society through development of&amp;nbsp;alienation. They industry and technology lose its spirit. On the other hand some school&amp;nbsp;of thought appreciates the industries as welcome phenomena and believes in its positive&amp;nbsp;consequences. They further argue that in the case of proper industrialization in a&amp;nbsp;society, the culture, and social structure of a society would modernized. The key person&amp;nbsp;pertaining to this school of thought is blowers. He believed that the growth of&amp;nbsp;industrialization would enhance the demand for other relevant services. Through&amp;nbsp;industrial growth and its, synergistic consequence, a government would be able to tax&amp;nbsp;people more and as a result, medical care education, and provision of security as well as&amp;nbsp;other services would relative be guaranteed.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Methodology:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;Taking to account the mature as well as the objective of this study, descriptiveanalytical and comparative research method was applied. The statistical society&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;composes P rural workers in Khayam industrial town in 66 villages as target group&amp;nbsp;located in proximity of this town the head of households as well as. Of other rural&amp;nbsp;households who engaged in activities other than Khayam industrial town as an evidence&amp;nbsp;group. The sample size turned out to be 388 households through application of Cochran&amp;nbsp;formula and random sampling technique.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle2&quot;&gt;Conclusion:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: justify; &quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fontstyle0&quot;&gt;This study suggests that Khayam Industrial town regarding three indicators,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;enhancement of job skills, getting advance of insurance services and accessing to mass&amp;nbsp;media show positive impacts. On the other hand, the enhancement of community&amp;nbsp;participation. Strengthening mutual self-confidence, providing motivation for staying in&amp;nbsp;rural communities, is not associated with positive impacts. Moreover, 80% of Khayam&amp;nbsp;Industrial town workers enjoy high level of job satisfaction. It is further argued that&amp;nbsp;regarding three cultural indices including feeling of prosperity, feeling of alienation and&amp;nbsp;value systems impose great positive impacts and led to drastic, positive cultural&amp;nbsp;changes. Some may argue that even though construction of Industrial reigns and towns&amp;nbsp;from one hand provide job opportunities and increase the income level, but it does not&amp;nbsp;necessary means keeping the population in rural areas and prevent migration .this study&amp;nbsp;confirm this as well. This in turn more attention regarding increasing the participationlevel.&lt;/div&gt;
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						<author>Hamid Shayan</author>
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