جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « environmental protection » در نشریات گروه « جغرافیا »

This study was conducted with the general purpose of developing strategies for the use of renewable energy in the agricultural sector in Bushehr province. In this study, first, using analytical studies and literature, the subject of the four SWOT points, namely strength, weakness, opportunity and threat, were identified and prioritized using the AHP technique. The statistical population of the study were subject-aware experts and specialists in relevant organizations who were purposefully selected for the study. Data analysis was performed using SWOT-AHP technique using Expert Choice software. Findings showed that in evaluating the criteria, strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities were the first to fourth priorities that the weights obtained from the results of these points indicate the dominance of risky space over space. useful. In addition, in prioritizing strategic areas, the results showed that the first SO strategy is aggressive strategy (maximum-maximum), the second strategy is ST strategy is contingent strategy (maximum-minimum), the third WO strategy is adaptive strategy (minimum-maximum strategy). And finally, the last strategy in the subject under consideration is the WT strategy, that is, the defense strategy (at least - at least). In general, the results of this research can provide new insights for energy and environmental policy makers.

 Today, active participation and empowerment of rural communities are essential for achieving environmental sustainability. Empowering local people will lead to their active involvement in environmental protection. ‎

 This research aimed to elucidate the concept of environmental empowerment strategy in rural communities, identify effective indicators, and present strategies in South Mirbeg District. It is a part of basic research with an exploratory approach due to its purpose and descriptive-analytical methodology. After identifying and defining the effective components of environmental empowerment through literature review and expert opinions, a specialized questionnaire was designed to collect information from 365 households and 5 villages.‎

Research Innovation:

 The innovative aspect of this research lay in the thematic combination of empowerment and environmental strategies.‎

 The components of new environmental technologies (A4) with a weighting factor of 0.094, financial incentives (A8) with a weighting factor of 0.094, and environmental investments (A11) with a weighting factor of 0.086 had the greatest effects on the process of environmental empowerment in the territory. Among the selected indicators, the effect coefficient of managers and decision-makers (A14) with a weighted value of 0.014 and the index of extrapolated plans and programs (A15) with a weighted value of 0.019 had the lowest effects on the process of environmental empowerment of residents in the territory. ‎

Sustainable tourism management and planning is one of the most important goals of communities to protect the environment and natural resources. National parks are one of the main natural and environmental resources for tourism, which need comprehensive protection. The aim of this study is to develop a sustainable tourism management and planning model for the protection of national parks.
Design/methodology/approach: This study is applied research according to its purpose and follows a partially mixed sequential equal status design. This research is carried out in three qualitative-qualitative-quantitative phases, in which three methods of "meta-synthesis, thematic analysis, and survey" were used.

In the first phase of the study, the researcher identified 52 items that were in accordance with the subject and content of the research using the meta synthesis method, and by examining their content, only 17 articles in the meta-synthesis process were chosen. In the next step, the thematic analysis method, using tools such as semi-structured interviews, 162 indicators were identified, from which 46 basic themes, 12 organizing themes, and three global themes were extracted. In the third phase, i.e. the quantitative phase, with the help of a questionnaire, all indicators were examined and considered from the perspective of experts. Finally, indicators such as the "role of responsible institutions and organizations, development of environmental protection infrastructure, the role of society, problem definition, and agenda setting" were considered the most important and effective indicators of sustainable tourism management and planning model for the protection of national parks.

By creating and adopting sustainable tourism management and planning for the protection of national parks, while establishing communication and interaction at three important and key levels of "community, institutions and responsible organizations, and tourists and visitors", basic measures can be taken to preserve and develop national parks in the form of sustainable management and planning in the field of tourism.

For the first time, the present research has developed a sustainable tourism management and planning model for the protection of national parks, and in terms of methodology, it is among the few studies that have used the relative partially mixed sequential equal status design. The results of the research can be useful for trustee organizations in an executive manner.

Environmental issues are one of the most important concerns and preoccupations of human beings in the third millennium. It is very important to increase the desire of people at different social levels with the principles of environmental protection and to create voluntary motivations for environmental protection. Women have a significant contribution in environmental protection and natural resource management. The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the increase in rural women's desire for environmental protection. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this research includes the women living in Hasanabad Village in Khorramabad County (N = 180). Based on Karjesi and Morgan Table, the sample size was estimated to be 118 people, which was increased to 123 people in order to increase the accuracy of the sample size. The random sampling method was also simple. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire; the form and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by the faculty members of the agricultural extension and education department of the Khuzestan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. In addition, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to check and confirm reliability. The results of the analysis of the structural equation model showed that the variables of environmental responsibility, environmental awareness and reward are the variables which would affect women's desire positively and directly, and these variables would finally predict 80% of the changes in the variable of rural women's desire to protect the environment.

Decades of environmental conservation experience have shown that Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of human society is an essential part of conservation. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to investigate the KAP of Mashhad citizens towards biodiversity and related factors. This research was conducted with a mixed quantitative and qualitative method. The statistical population of the study, using Cochran's formula, 384 samples of people over 15 years old living in different areas of Mashhad, was determined based on clustering. The data collection tool was a localized EU questionnaire whose validity and reliability were 0.73 for 5 items of variable attitude, 0.77 for 7 items of variable and 0.71 of 5 items of variable behaviour. Descriptive statistics and results from Exell2016 and SPSS16.0 software as well as distribution and frequency tables and related graphs were applied to describe the data. SPSS16.0, t-test, test hypotheses from t-test, variance analysis and Spearman correlation test were applied to analyse the data and hypothesis test. The results showed that less than a third of people had heard of the biodiversity term. University education contributes to the improvement of the term biodiversity. There is also a significant relationship among the variables of gender, income and education's type of citizens' attitudes toward biodiversity. In addition, there is a positive and significant correlation between environmental knowledge and attitude. In fact, with the increase in the level of knowledge, the attitude of citizens towards biodiversity has been raised to a higher level. As a result, their behaviours are directed towards the protection of the environment. There is also a significant difference between the KAP of citizens living in different areas. Finally, by analysing the biodiversity profile in the KAP of Mashhad citizens and referring to the Delphi panel, a conceptual model of the research was presented.

This research was conducted to explain the environmental attitudes of rural women in Zagros forests. The statistical population of this research included all rural women over 15 years old living in the margins of Zagros forests in Lorestan province, whose livelihood was, directly and indirectly, dependent on Zagros forests (N = 231000). Sample size was determined using Kerjci and Morgan table. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster sampling with proportional assignment (based on forest area in each city). The main research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (0.698-0.880). Data analysis was performed by SPSS software. The results of correlation analysis showed that education, forest dependence, social norms, sense of belonging, social responsibility, social participation, social environmentalism, self-efficacy and environmental knowledge and information have a positive and significant relationship with rural women's attitudes toward forest protection. In addition, the regression results showed that among all the known factors, four factors of self-efficacy, social responsibility, social environmentalism and forest dependence were the most influential factors on the attitude of rural women so that these four factors are able to explain 60.3% of the total variance of the factors. In general, it can be said that due to the high importance of the self-efficacy variable in explaining the protective attitude of rural women, it is necessary to strengthen their professional skills by properly teaching forest protection methods among rural women.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the social and cultural contexts of environmental issues among western villages of Gilan province, rural areas of Tavalesh with a qualitative approach based on grounded theory. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 villagers as well as some experts in the spring of 2020 using targeted sampling. The validity and reliability of this study were evaluated based on control or validation by the participants. Data analysis was performed in three coding stages. In open coding, 10 concepts were identified and in axial coding, 31 major categories were extracted. Also, through selective coding of major categories, the core of the discovery and the final paradigm model were drawn and "Environmental degradation" was recognized as the main phenomenon. Causal conditions include infrastructure barriers, legal vacuum, participation rate, second home ownership, lack of foresight, and value density. Furthermore, the results show that the Intervention conditions included: transient tourism, conflicting settlements, credit vacuum, and illegal crossings. Overall, the findings showed that environmental degradation is a multifactorial phenomenon that convergence of a set of causal and intervening conditions in the social context of rural society has caused its occurrence. Revision of laws and equipping of infrastructure, development of ecotourism and promotion of public education as interactive strategies will have consequences such as reduction of occupation and destruction, optimal waste management, sustainable tourism and environmental protection.

The environment plays a vital role in sustaining human life and must be protected byall means.In Iran, legal solutions as well as coercive measures have not been able toprevent the destruction of the environment, so that the statistics show the worryingsituation of environmental degradation in Iran.Mazandaran province is one of therichest environmental resources in Iran, but it is in a red situation in terms ofenvironmental degradation.The main question of this article is whether moralframeworks can help protect the environment and sustainable geographicaldevelopment in Mazandaran province? The method of this article is descriptive-analytical.The findings of the paper show that ethics and moral frameworks based onIslam and the Shiite religion and efforts to extract and teach the ethical teachings of environmental protection can guarantee internal performance to protect theenvironment.On the other hand, given the dominance of the development view ofgovernment policy and the concern for job creation and all-round economic development, the best way to protect the environment is to empower the people themselves by strengthening moral foundations.

Protecting the environment and its necessity is not hidden from anyone. Now, these protections have different aspects such as criminal or non-criminal protection. Some believe that although criminal law plays a role in protecting the environment; However, since the main problem in this field is the legal regulation of the activities of relatively large production companies, it is the most effective means to achieve accurate criteria for the distribution of pollutants and the application of standards through administrative regulations. Criminal law plays a limited role in this regard, and it also plays a limited role in enforcing administrative regulations. Others believe that criminal law is the most appropriate way to protect the environment; Because these rights are the main means of effective protection of basic social values ​​and are degrading. The findings of this study show that the simultaneous application of criminal solutions with non-criminal solutions and the integration of the principles governing them with each other is the best way to protect and protect the environment; Because each of these cases alone has disadvantages and advantages that can not be achieved without combining them.

Participation is the main mechanism for sustainable development goals in the third millennium. When cities grow in size and population, it is important to pay attention to the coordination between their physical, social and environmental aspects. The sustainability of the city will depend on the harmony between these factors. The aim of the present study is to study the factors affecting the participation of citizens and tourists in order to protect the environment. The research was conducted in terms of developmental-applied purpose and in a mixed way. The statistical population of the study included members of the scientific board of the fields of environment, watershed management, agriculture, geography, tourism, Mahmoud Abad universities, managers of public organizations and private companies, employers and contractors. . Data collection tools continued from the first phase of the semi-structured face-to-face interview to the phase of theoretical saturation. Interviews with 29 people (23 men and 6 women) were identified in four dimensions and 21 items. The second part of the discussion was given to the members of Delphi Group (8 people) in two stages for designing the questionnaire. In the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire on the five-value Likert scale was distributed online among the statistical sample (85 people). The Cronbach's alpha coefficients for education (0.754), management (0.861), planning (0.82), information (0.791), ownership (0.833), and social (0.741) were estimated. The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS and PLS software. The findings showed that educational, social, planning, ownership, management and information factors affect the participation of citizens and tourists in environmental protection.

Today, nature reserves are scattered around the world and the process of their establishment has gradually taken place. In most third world countries including Iran, habitat destruction and illegal hunting are among the main problems in the areas under management. Thus, in order to counteract the process of destruction and the expansion of human destructive activities in the protected areas, there is a need for scientific knowledge, expert and capable groups and more research activities in this field, and this need remains in place. National parks, as one of the protected areas, are in fact highly valuable genetic reserves of plant and animal species in each country and in the world, and will be the main backbone for the restoration of nature. To save life on the Planet, resources must be used properly and controlled, and renewable resources must be given the opportunity to form again, so that they can be always used. The Kolahghazi National Park is an example of ecosystems in the Iranian plateau which has a long history of conservation. In this research, the ecosystems, the vegetation cover and wildlife as well biological geography in the park are discussed.