نشریه پایداری، توسعه و محیط زیست
سال یکم شماره 2 (تابستان 1393)

This study aimed to investigate the effect of water on the citizens of Mashhad networks were examined. Study of analytical techniques using a questionnaire was conducted in the field. A sample of citizens in Mashhad and sample a simple random sampling method was 384. In this study, two hypotheses were considered. To investigate the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test of normality of the data and information and to test the hypothesis of one-sample t-test, Spearman correlation test, when the test was performed. Both descriptive and inferential data were analyzed using software Spss .Then according to the needs of citizens with suitable training manual and after verification that proper training was given to the statistical community

Increasing and developing industrial activities can cause environmental issues and threat on human health. Environmental design science plays an important role for remedying the mentioned issues. Landscape design as one of the main element of environmental design science attracts attention from different aspects. Therefore, new ideas are introduced such as site design by considering of phytoremediation as one the most important approach. Parand industrial city as an industrial center in proximity of Parand new city in Tehran province is nominated as case study. Ecological design of Parand industrial city with consideration of phytoremediation approach is carried out by gathering and analyzing of field and library data. Green landscape is identified based on the characteristics of city physical images and location of industrial units. Then appropriate plants for phyremediation are introduced. Eventually, environmental detailed study is presented by considering of principle of sustainable ecology design and improving environmental quality.

The objective of this survey is to investigate the role of rural women facilitators in extension of sustainable development and environment protection measures in Qazvin province villages. This survey is a descriptive – correlational one. The research tool was a questionnaire delivered to scholars and experts for validity evaluation. The reliability also was confirmed by a preliminary test of the questionnaire and completing 30 of them. Cronbach's Alpha coefficients were obtained for different parts of the 0/75 to 0/88, respectively. Using Morgan and Kerjsi and stratified random sampling, 135 people selected as statistical society (N=135).Spearman correlation coefficients showed that there exists a significant positive relationship between the variables of cooperation background as a rural facilitator, the usage extent of rural facilitator of media on environment, the extent of the ability to communicate with the community and rural women, the participation rate in extension training courses, the participation rate in environmental courses, rural facilitators satisfaction of the concept of training courses, rural facilitators satisfaction of the methods used in training courses, facilitation attitude and rural facilitators approach on environment protection and the role of rural facilitators in extension of sustainable development and environment protection measures. Regression analysis showed that participation in extension–training courses, rural facilitators satisfaction with the methods used in extension–training courses, facilitation attitude, age and satisfaction of rural facilitators with training course content can explain 36% of changes in the dependent variable (rural facilitators’ role in promoting sustainable development and environment protection measures).

Nuclear energy is one of the resources that plays an important role in electricity generation. The factors that are causing nuclear energy one of the secure and accessible carriers energy in world’s are analysis of process the level of demand and supply energy sources in the world, attention to process the depletion of fossil resources in the future decades and benefits of nuclear energy environmental. Therefore survey of nuclear energy effects on economic growth is particular importance to understand the reason for investing in this industry. This study examines the effects of nuclear energy consumption growth on economic growth with both environmental and economic aspects in both chosen group of developed and developing countries using pool data approach with the period 1991- 2011. The results indicate that a positive impact in nuclear energy consumption growth on economic growth in the developed countries and the lack of impact between nuclear energy consumption growth and economic growth.

The evolution of urbanization and its due issues, in addition to environmental impacts of losing natural climate because of the increase of human influential power on the environment, have caused some activities to be developed to make the human involvement in nature. For that matter, urban green landscape includes some features which have made it into appropriate grounds for improving the human life quality. The existence of lands and its components such as parks, plants and bodies of water in urban grounds prepares some environmental, social and physiological services which are very important in making cities habitable. Throughout this research, besides of giving a definition of green landscapes, life quality and the mutual relation between these two, a survey has been done to identify the influential role of green landscape on improving human life quality. The functional aspects of this landscape are divided into four categories: ecological, economic, social and physical. According to these aspects, indicators in three categories of quantitative, qualitative and spatial (land use) have been documented .Further on, in the article the green landscape of Shiyan neighborhood has been studied by using various implements of gathering information including questionnaire, extracting statistics and data in use. The result is expressing that urban green landscapes in the face of neighborhood have a prominent place in the eyes of inhabitants of this neighborhood. At the end, through the use of the obtained information, to have a green neighborhood, an efficient plan is presented which is the result of applying the indicators.

This research attempts to select the suitable areas for tourism development using a Geographic Information System (GIS) and Ecological capability evaluation. In this research, in order to identify the environmental potential of Shahrood County for tourism, GIS as the best suitable technique for land evaluation and site feasibility was used along with Index Overlaying (IO). Thus by identifying the ecological resources of the region, in a scale of 1:250000, map layer information was dispatched to the ArcGIS to overlay. This research was done in 6 stages. After preparing the slope, aspect and elevation layers, they were overlaid in ArcGIS and the landform layer was produced. Then, the overlaying of landform, land use, soil, vegetation and wildlife layers resulted in the final environmentalunits. After that, the ecological models of extensive and intensive tourism in Iran were used for comparison and analysis. According to the results, the study area has high potential for tourism. The suitable area for intensive outdoor recreation encompassed 68.8% of the area associated with class 1 and 19.1% with class 2; and extensive outdoor recreation included 93.2% class 1 and 5.3% class 2. In addition to this, 13.6% of study area was allocated to conservation because no part of this area is suitable for tourism activities. In the end, appropriate activities for each zone are recommended.