Nowadays, towns and villages usually try to get funds for community constructions by following empirical rules. It is not possible to predict the effectiveness. And in the previous researches related to community development, there is no decision support model built using mathematical planning for fund allocation. This study obtains index weights for community industrial development by applying...

introduction promoting villages to towns is among the prominent characteristics of urbanization in few past decades and remains as a major challenge facing managers, policymakers and urban planners, particularly in developing countries. in iran, one of the growing impacts of rapid urbanization on the spatial structure of country is growing the number of urban centers via transformation villages...

We investigated whether there might be excess ovarian cancer mortality among women residing near Spanish industries, according to different categories of industrial groups and toxic substances. An ecologic study was designed to examine ovarian cancer mortality at a municipal level (period 1997-2006). Population exposure to pollution was estimated by means of distance from town to facility. Usin...

The rural land use preferences of multiple agents are crucial for optimizing land-use allocation. Taking Guanlin Town, Yixing City, China as an example, this study analyzed the factors by effecting conversion probability, identified objectives and constraints within optimization allocation, simulated optimal allocation 2030 combining MAS with MOPSO procedure. results showed that decisions main ...