introduction sustainability assessment has become an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. however, this is a new and evolving concept and there are very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented throughout in the world. the concept of sustainable development can be a state of balance between different aspects of development that aims to disp...

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent decades, especial plan to improve rural housing in 1974 has begun by islamic revolution’s housing foundation. the aims were to improve rural context and the promotion of health, safety, and welfare of rural housing. with regarded to accelerating in possess of providing loans and banking facilities to rural housing sector in the form of various project...

Focusing on urban–rural development issues, this paper analyzes the necessity of coordinated development between the narrowing gap and integral development. An overall urban–rural development dynamic model aimed at two major objectives is pointed out. A principal component analysis (PCA)—Grey Entropy measurement model is proposed to evaluate urban–rural coordination from economic development, s...

today, sprawl is regarded as one of the serious urban problems in most countries. the problem differs from country to country depending on various geographical, economic, social, and political structures. iran is not an exception in this regard. although urbanization in many cities has been rather gradual, the very inclination of most people to prefer living in towns and cities to living in rur...

this paper aims to study the role of women in agricultural promotion and its effect on rural development. research method in this study was based on a survey and the required information was collected through questionnaire from a sample of women especially rural women. the data were analyzed using logit model. the results showed that women had a major role in farming including producion, conser...