نشریه علوم جغرافیایی
پیاپی 1 (بهار 1385)

The purpose of this article is to study the potential of Isfahan bazaar for attracting tourists. The writer, within the framework of the school of space behavior, identifies the potential of the bazaar elements for attracting various groups of tourists and studies the elements that attract various groups of tourists. The results of the study show that Isfahan bazaar with its economic, social and cultural elements has the potential to attract tourists, but that the attraction is not the same for all types of tourists, the degree of attraction depending on whether tourists are Iranians or non-Iranians, on the age of tourists, and on the type of tourists.

The valley and mountain-laid villages in the western regions of Mashhad township, located in an altitude of 1400-1900 metres, as situated in valleys and high mountainous regions, have confronted an intensive emigration ratio, compared to other villages. Researches performed in 200 families of 7 sample villages showed that lack of life facilities and plane lands for different applications, especially for agriculture and infrastructures, has resulted in lack of occupation and income for providing life facilities. Therefore the unemployed young population will migrate to nearby cities. As a result, aging of population and weakness of production factors have confronted these villages with reduction of population, and in cases, emptying of some villages, while these villages contain sufficient potencies for economic development, especially by tourism. In such situation, planning and organization of existing capabilities of these villages can help to access sufficient occupation and income to maintain the village population.

Modification of weather by seeding clouds is among the new sciences of meteorology which started its new phase in 1946. The most important aims of modification include limited control of the time and place of raining, increase of raining, clearing fog and decrease of damage from hail. To seed clouds, first the type of cloud is identified based on the raining process and the average temperature inside the cloud. Next, depending on the type of cloud (whether it is cold or warm), the materials appropriate for seeding are determined. Finally, for every type of material, depending on its physical and chemical properties as well as the topography of the region, one of the common methods of seeding is applied. In this article, the writer, first describes the ecological and synoptical conditions of Khorassan province using the high atmosphere data and the synoptics of Khorassan meteorology stations and other necessary information. This is followed by the location phase feasibility of seeding clouds, using the points table based on the standards of World Meteorological Organization, on the six water basins at Khorassan province. Based on this study, the map for evaluating the basins with the purpose of determining the most suitable place for the operations of seeding clouds has been drawn.

For more than half a century, northern borders of Iran were bounded by an iron curtain which had reduced communications to the minimum level. By Soviet Union collapse, Iran has found a situation as a bridge between people who lived behind the curtain of the former Soviet Union. In this way Iran could take some advantages of its geopolitical location. Among Iran’s northern borders, the Caspian Shores have the best connecting infrastructures like ferry ways, railroads and roads can relate the states which are around the Caspian Sea to the other parts of the world. With limited anticipations, Islamic Republic of Iran can take appropriate advantages of its geopolitical location and achieve to being the center of the economic pole of West Asia (new heart land).

Khoozestan has a long urbanization history. In the past, the population growth of the cities of this province, affected by only internal factors, was slow. With the start of the activities of extracting and exporting oil in the last century, external factors caused an increasing population growth in the province. The imposed war (1980-1988), changed the population distribution pattern in the villages and cities, resulting in population changes in the cities of Khoozestan. The phenomenon of urban primacy in this province is a product of expansion of capitalistic relations and the centralized politico-economic system.

Intelligent mapping through analysis and data sharing is vital for disaster management. The analytical capabilities of GIS support all aspects of disaster management.Mobile GIS is the expansion of a geographic information system (GIS) from the office into the field. It is giving service providers and emergency responders’ real-time location information that enables them to offer rapid response, targeted, relevant assistance and better services. A mobile GIS enables field based personnel to capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display geographic information. Fire fighters, police officers, engineering crews, surveyors, utility workers, soldiers, census workers, field biologists, and more use mobile GIS to complete these tasks. This paper will identify the function of Mobile GIS in improving Emergency Management Services and will focus on Wild Fire as a Natural Disaster aspect.

The questions of the vastness and the geopolitical conditions of the division of Khorassan province have been of increasing concern in recent years. Based on the latest division made in September 2004 by the ministry of the interior and the Parliament, the greater Khorassan was divided into three provinces: North Khorassan, South Khorassan and central Khorasan or Khorassan Razavi. In this article, we briefly survey the history of this division and present an analysis of the political-administrative divisions and the population characteristics of the greater cities of Khorassan and the newly emerged provinces. The analysis will be carried out following the urban model within the framework of prime city model and the indexes of four cities. Also, the consequences of the new prime cities and the situation of the capital cities of the new provinces and the dominant cities have been examined.

Political border is a space phenomenon which reflects the territory of a government with the right to prevent, based on certain rules and regulations, the movement of human beings, the transfer of commodities and the dissemination of ideas. Political borders serve various functions, the most important one being the creation of obstacles against the movement of human beings, the transfer of commodities and the dissemination of ideas, being referred to as border security. It prevents any illegal act along the border of a country and legalizes movement of human beings and transfer of commodities and domestic animals through border ports. The security inside the country strongly depends on it as any insecurity in borders may disrupt the economic, cultural, political, social and military systems. The purpose of this article is to study the most important factors that undermine border security. This is a case study of the eastern border of Iran and Afghanistan.