rural sustainable development is one the most important components of achievement to sustainable development in a national scale which is not doable without using an efficient management. therefore, recognizing the problems ahead of local management in the scale of various geographical regions of the country and attempting to solve them by using proper course of actions could be instrumental. i...

knowledge management is a process of using a source of strategic knowledge in organizations in order to find key information and organize and transfer it. many organizations adopted knowledge management systems to maintain their stability and usefulness. since there is occupational similarity between informatics experts and librarians, librarians can change to knowledge managers by being inform...

The purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people’s non-participation of Mahabad’s dam catchment in Watershed Management Projects. The research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity confirmed by panel of academic staff and reliability of questionnaire was confirmed. The target population of thi...

Rural development is a process involving local people in solving their problems. As a strategy designed to improve the social and economic well-being of rural populations, rural developmentundoubtedlysupportsnation-widedevelopmentina country like Iran with a rural-basedsociety. Theconstitutionof the Islamic Republic of Iran stipulates that ­rural development should be viewed as a key function o...

This paper examines what we can learn from existing studies, or could learn from existing data, about the implications of banking consolidation for the financing of economic activity in rural areas. The evidence indicates that large organizations will expand their offices in rural areas. The role of relatively small banks headquartered in rural areas as providers of banking services in their co...

in this paper, we study the affect of contextual factors on quality management practices and organizations performance. the research method that led to this article is descriptive survey that we analyze gathered data with compare means statistical test. the result show that there is no significant effect of contextual factors on quality management practices and organizations performance. this r...

Management of Knowledge workers in healthcare is one of the key challenges being tackled for delivering quality healthcare services . Faced with a global shortage of skilled health workers, even developed countries are struggling to build and maintain an optimum Knowledge workforce in healthcare. India too has been experiencing acute shortage particularly so in rural areas. This paper attempts ...

In April 2006, the Housing Assistance Council (HAC) brought together national green building organizations, local rural housing developers, funders, and other stakeholders in the sustainable housing development movement in a roundtable forum to explore aff ordable green housing in rural areas.1 Rural aff ordable green building is an area with little current research and one that is increasingly...