جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « social environment » در نشریات گروه « جغرافیا »

Social wellbeing has a great impact on physical and social health, as well as, promoting environmental justice in local communities. Despite several studies on the concept of social well-being in relation to social environment, the majority of these works have been conducted in developed countries. The study aimed to investigate the association of social environment aspects (safety, social participation, social network, and social cohesion) with social well-being in low economic neighborhoods in an Iranian adult population. A total of 1100 questionnaires systematically were distributed among adults population residing in 4 low income neighborhoods of Bandar Abbas city, Iran. Of these 924 qualified questionnaires were used for further analysis. Despite the low economic conditions, social well-being were reported high. In addition, women reported higher social well-being than men. Women were socially more active than men, however were perceived less safe compared to their counterparts. All aspects of social variables positively contributed with social well-being among men, while in women group no link between safety and social well-being were determined. Findings suggest that programming efforts and research should focus on increasing social activities that support social participation and social cohesion to promote social well-being among residents. Designing and implementing effective intervention to improve inviting spaces to do small and large social activities can help in rising social well-being in low income neighborhoods.

Measuring residential quality as an important part of quality of life is a tool for evaluating urban planning and policymaking to provide a platform for future actions. Therefore, this research focuses on the quality of social and physical environment of residential neighborhoods in Rasht city which has been done by descriptive-analytical method and using a residential satisfaction approach in the form of field survey completion. The reliability of the questionnaire was measured by Cronbach's alpha and the data were analyzed using SPSS software and statistical methods such as path analysis and One-sample T-test. Given the results, in social environment, indicators of vitality of neighborhood and thrust to sellers are at a desirable level and indicators of right of children, right of animal and continue living with acquiring better economic conditions are undesirable and in physical environment, indicators of cleanliness of passages and cleanliness of residents in neighborhood are above the average level of quality and indicators of urban furniture quality, existence of trees alongside of streets, safety related to car travelling, pavements and asphalt of pathways and beauty of outside and appearance of the buildings in neighborhood are undesirable. In general, residents are satisfied with the social environment but are dissatisfied with the physical environment. In social environment, right of children and meets expectations by neighborhood and in physical environment, cleanliness of residents and outside beauty of the buildings in neighborhood were respectively important according to the residents. In general, in viewpoint of residents, the importance of the social environment and the physical environment to be approximately equal.

In the most modern cities, the traditional system of communications and interactions have been strongly changes whose one of their worrying appearance is fading the social relationships among citizens. Since the meaning and identity of urban environments is greatly dependent on their prevailing social system, the decrease of people’s social interactions changes the identity of these environments and spaces and fades their conceptual and functional authenticity. This matter leads to decrease of sense of community and consequently decrease of sense of place attachment whose reaction in urban quarters is a sense of indifference for residents about residential stability in quarters and in several cases, motivation for changing life area to other quarter or even other city. Regarding this issue, the present paper has investigated the social factors affecting citizens’ residential stability in Arak city and its quarters. The effect of social factors and their criteria on two settlement durability including ‘tendency to continue living in present quarter, and ‘tendency to continue living in Arak city’, was investigated. Needed data of research has been collected through library studies and questionnaire. For obtaining overall view about citizens’ evaluation on criteria of four social factors, One-sample T test was applied, and for clarifying relations of social factors and durability indicators Pearson correlation coefficient was calculated for each pair of factors and indicators, and the influence of social factors on each of durability indicators was examined using Regression analysis. The result of study show a significant relation between mentioned factors and indicators, and based on regression analysis, 61% of the changes of indicator of ‘tendency to continue living in present quarter’ and 59% of the changes of indicator of ‘tendency to continue living in Arak city’ is explained through linear combination of changes of social factors.

Nowadays with the development of media use in the daily life, we are witnessing the formation of new generation with new lifestyles. In this modern world, there are different lifestyles, which has been of interest to scholars because attention to this issue arising from the social and cultural developments that has specified the contribution of each women and men in different areas. The lifestyle of men and women in the context of the modern world has been faced with a lot of changes. Thus the aim of this study was to gender analysis of lifestyle and its influencing factors among villagers of Zanjan Township which is conducted through a survey method. The population of this study consisted of rural residents in Zanjan Township (active population of 10 years and above) that by using Bartlett et al., (2001) Table, 250 respondents were selected and data were collected using a questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS20 and AMOS20 soft wares. The results showed that the relationship between the media environment and lifestyle was positive but non-significant for men (β-0.020, ρ-0.827) where this relationship was negative and significant for women (β-0.405, ρ-0.008). Therefore the moderation effect of gender on the relationship between media and lifestyle is confirmed. Also, the results show that the social environment has a significant positive effect on the life style for both men (β-0.331, ρ-0.000) and women (β-0.335, ρ-0.030) that due to the same direction and significant of the relationship for both groups the moderator assumption of gender on this relation is not confirmed.In addition, this results about the effect of the economic environment on the lifestyle for women and men showed that the effect of the economic environment on the lifestyle for men was positive and significant (β-0.365, ρ-0.000) but for women was non-significant (β-0.127, ρ-0.361), that in this relationship also due to its significance for one group but insignificant for other, the assumption of gender moderating on the relationship between these two variables is approved.

To be sustainable, old areas need a controlled effort which can be crystallized through a renewal and rehabilitation plan; The plan is continuous in its nature and should transform finally into a span tenuous system. The process does not take place immediately, but is complicated and it requires short- term oriented plans as well as middle and long term ones. It is necessary to identify the old parts, the whole urban system and the local system if it is to achieve ideal renewal and regeneration. Bandar abbas city faces a large numbere of physical problems as a metropolitan area in terms of its role both across the country and locally. Among the most basic problems is the decay of the whole city which has represented the worst image within an area of 1500Ha (equal to 3750 acres). The problems was worsened by socio cultural indicators, the heterogeneity of social environment as well as physical dimonsion. No concern for the problem was raised in the master plans, one of the important urban physical planning, in terms of the nature and services the description of their corresponding, and the unfavered condition. A set of pre-determined issues was advanced according the description of the services. Moreover, since the plan was not implemented on schedule, it could lead to such condition development and renewal programs on a small scale and in a particular period failed to tackle the problem. Therefore the present study seeks to explore the challenging areas and parts of the city with an emphasis on those that require more improvements in the city and suggests some solutions to regenerate and renew the 3750 acre area.