Aliakbar Anabestani; Sara Fazli; Bijan Rahmani
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This study aims to identify, structurally analyze, and prioritize the factors influencing the formation of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart village approach in Iran. The primary problem addressed is the absence of an integrated framework to elucidate the interrelationships among technological, ...
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This study aims to identify, structurally analyze, and prioritize the factors influencing the formation of an Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart village approach in Iran. The primary problem addressed is the absence of an integrated framework to elucidate the interrelationships among technological, economic, social, and managerial components, and to assess their impact within the context of the country's rural areas. This research is applied in terms of objective and utilizes a descriptive-analytical methodology. Data were collected through documentary studies and by soliciting opinions from experts in the field of rural planning ($n=30$). The Delphi method was employed to extract key components. Subsequently, the DEMATEL technique was utilized to analyze causal relationships and determine the degrees of influence and dependence, while the Analytic Network Process (ANP) was used for final weighting and prioritization. The DEMATEL results indicated that Smart Agriculture, Smart Energy, and Smart Economy, with impact values of 1.001, 0.137, and 0.087 respectively, play a driving role in the relationship network and are categorized as causal factors. However, the limit super matrix results in the ANP analysis reveal that Smart Environment achieved the highest final weight (0.27032), followed by Smart Agriculture (0.19688) and Smart Health (0.16148). At the sub-criteria level, technologies related to environmental monitoring, smart resource management, and digital health garnered the highest priority. The findings suggest that realizing an IoT-based smart village requires strengthening environmental and technological infrastructures, focusing on smart agriculture and smart health, and establishing institutional coordination at the local level.
Fazileh Khani; Somayeh Sadat Mousavi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , December 2017, , Pages 99-116
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Geographical diffusion theory deals with description and explanation of quality and expansion of a phenomenon in a spatial extent and temporal span. It tries to explore the reasons and factors involved in diffusing and expanding the events and phenomena from a region to the others. It also tries to examine ...
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Geographical diffusion theory deals with description and explanation of quality and expansion of a phenomenon in a spatial extent and temporal span. It tries to explore the reasons and factors involved in diffusing and expanding the events and phenomena from a region to the others. It also tries to examine the role of such diffusions in physical development of rural areas. On the other side, there is a concept named entrepreneurship which is closely related to some other concepts such as: innovation, risk, creating or renewing socio-economic structure, self-sufficiency and independency. As entrepreneurship can be interpreted as an innovation, it interacts with diffusion theory and might be examined by the mentioned theory. The purpose of the present study is to understand the processes by which an entrepreneurship-distribution occurs based on the Hägerstrand’s diffusion model. The study area includes a rural district (Dehestan) named Souleghan in northwest of Tehran province. Based on its aim, the present study is an applicable research and based on its nature, it is a descriptive-analytical one. Statistical sample includes 82 rural households in Souleghan who were recognized as entrepreneurs in field of plant and flower growing. Data collection was based on both methods of documentary and field study. Applied techniques to collect the data comprise; interview, field observation, and a questionnaire based on Likert range. Findings of the present study indicate that the current diffusion of entrepreneurship in souleghan rural district is in accordance with the second stage of diffusion wave's profile. It also is matching with the intermediate step in the direction of S-curve of Hägerstrand’s diffusion theory. The results show that some characteristics of the mentioned enterprenuership (such as; simplicity, attractiveness, profitability, and economic features) are compatible with the experiences and financial needs of rural people. So, it can be considered as an effective factore to accept an innovation and diffusing it by innovators. It has also had spectacular effects on the physical improvement of houses, pathways and public spaces of villages in the study area.
mohamadreza rezvani; hossein mansourian; mehrdad mahmoudian zamaneh; Razieh Heydarian Mohammadabadi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , September 2013, , Pages 37-48
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Unemployment is a fundamental issue in world economy so that increase in employment and decrease in unemployment is an important indicator about of development. Iran not alone suffers from high unemployment rate but also the spatial distribution of unemployment rate is very solicitous. These papers with ...
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Unemployment is a fundamental issue in world economy so that increase in employment and decrease in unemployment is an important indicator about of development. Iran not alone suffers from high unemployment rate but also the spatial distribution of unemployment rate is very solicitous. These papers with emphasis on exploratory spatial data analysis investigate the spatial distribution of unemployment rate in urban and rural areas with using data of census 2011. Results of exploratory spatial data analysis indicate clustering (positive spatial autocorrelation) and spatial heterogeneous in spatial distribution of urban and rural unemployment in Iran's counties. Therefore results of this paper can provide context for proper planning in order to obviation regional inequality in unemployment rate in Iran.
