Abaas Saidi; Farhad Azizpour; Vahid Riyahi; Eyvaz Amini Qovaqlu
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At present, sustainability as a clear goal is at the heart of global developments. Territorial sustainable development depends on the sustainability of rural system as a constituent sub-system of a territorial system. Sustainability of rural areas in different dimensions can have an effective role in ...
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At present, sustainability as a clear goal is at the heart of global developments. Territorial sustainable development depends on the sustainability of rural system as a constituent sub-system of a territorial system. Sustainability of rural areas in different dimensions can have an effective role in regional and national development. The current research attempts to recognize and account for the spatial capabilities and limitations of rural settlements in Baruq within the framework of sustainable development. This research is a practical study with a descriptive methodology. The research statistical population includes 70 residential villages in Baruq are, of them thirty-two villages were selected through stratified sampling and based on four criteria of sustainable development. Field and document data were collected to answer the research questions. The results indicate that these villages are weak in terms of sustainability. Moreover, investigating the four aspects of sustainability has shown that each of the aspects (i.e., environmental-ecological, physical-spatial, social, and economic) are in a weak sustainable condition; the economic aspect suffers most from the weakest condition. The level of sustainability in the villages reveals that around 43 per cent of the settlements are unsustainably strong, 25 per cent unsustainably weak, 25 per cent sustainably weak, and only 6 per cent are sustainably strong. The sustainability of the villages decreases physically-spatially from the west to the east of the district. That is to say, mountainous villages are less sustainable than the villages in the plains or other less mountainous areas. Sustainable and slightly sustainable villages lie in the west or in the plain. It shows that sustainable spatial pattern is a cluster. The results thus predict the highest role of social factors (R2 = 0.392) and a low role for environmental-ecological factors (R2 = 0.186) in the unsustainability of the rural settlements. Economic and physical-spatial factors predict around 0.338 and 0.324 of the unsustainability in rural settlements.
Farhad Azizpour; Javad Alibeigi
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One of the most important challenges of developing countries is a lack of precise vision on possible concequences of development programs and projects to be conducted. It necessitates the evaluation of impacts of relocating and resettlement strategies in rural areas. The present study was aimed at evaluation ...
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One of the most important challenges of developing countries is a lack of precise vision on possible concequences of development programs and projects to be conducted. It necessitates the evaluation of impacts of relocating and resettlement strategies in rural areas. The present study was aimed at evaluation of economic, social, environmental, and physical-spatial concequences of resettlement strategy in two villages of Larini Olia and Larini Sofla in Sirvan county, Illam province. Based on type, the present study is a descriptive-analytical research. Required data were collected trough documentary and field methods. The statistical community included 129 households, of them 84 were selected by Chocran and random methods as a sample. Data analysis was done by T test in SPSS software. The questions posed by the present study include: what are the opinions of rural residents about executing the policy of rural resettlement? And, how do they evaluate its concequences bsed on the necessity of project and their satisfaction of such resettlements? The results indicated that the necessity of resettlement was evaluated by rural respondents as "very high" with a mean equals to 4.27, and their satisfaction of resettlement was "high" with a 3.88 mean figure. Moreover, the various impacts of resettlement on villages were ranked as follows: physical-spatial component with an average of 4.08 (as high), environmental component with an average of 3.70 (high), social component with 3.43 (high), and economic component with 2.93 as moderate rank respectively. The mentioned figures were used as a basis for the research theoretical framework.
hasan Afrakhteh; Farhad Azizpour; Mohammad RA\amazan Jornbyan
Volume 1, Issue 2 , April 2013, , Pages 9-24
Abstract
Cities and villages are considered as two main components of geographical foundation of any area which have special relations based on their socio-economic and spatial characteristics. Rural-urban linkages are the results of interactions between rural settlements and urban centers of a region. These ...
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Cities and villages are considered as two main components of geographical foundation of any area which have special relations based on their socio-economic and spatial characteristics. Rural-urban linkages are the results of interactions between rural settlements and urban centers of a region. These linkages are created due to the different flows of people, goods, information, technology, and innovation between urban and rural areas which in turn create many socio-economic and cultural changes in rural environments. The aim of the present study is to identify the internal and external spatial flows of rural settlements and their role and effects on the formation and expansion of the rural sprawl processes. The study area is Solaiman Abad located in rural division (Dehestan) of Golijan in Tonekabon County. Required data were collected through documentary and the field study by completing questionnaire and doing interview with rural household heads, rural council members, and rural managers. For data analysis, some software and methods are applied including: GIS, SPSS, descriptive statistics and statistical test (linear regression). The results show that two dominant spatial flows in the study area are population flows and capital flows which cause the spatial-physical changes of the region. Some factors such as unplanned expansion of cities, changes occurred in settlement textures, expansion of industrial and service units and increasing housing construction have caused the rural sprawl and have led to destroying fertile agricultural lands of the region.
