The objective of this paper is to examine the standing and thinking of regional planning in the country’s planning system with an emphasis on national development plans. It intends to see to what extent and how this objective has been achieved or this type of thinking has been incorporated into development plans. By scrutinizing these plans both in pre-and post-revolutionary periods, the paper ...

Recently, the awareness of the importance of distributed software development has been growing in the software engineering community. Economic constraints, more and more outsourcing of development activities, and the increasing spatial distribution of companies come along with challenges of how to organize distributed development. In this article, we reason that a common process understanding i...

"A common hypothesis regarding the distribution of income is that it tends to become more unequal in the initial and middle stages of economic development, in part because of demographic changes. However, previous studies of the effect of demographic changes on income distribution are not based on the underlying micro determinants of the income components." In the present paper, "the micro de...

purpose: this study aims to provide a comprehensive understanding about strategies and guidelines of rural tourism planning and management in iran, then with the help of experts and their participation identify and classify the different perspectives in iran rural tourism to finally putting forward a step beyond the current impressions and perceptions. methodology: in the past few decades, rura...

Species distribution modelling to support marine conservation planning Charlotte Emily Marshall This thesis explores some important practical considerations concerning the use of species distribution models in marine conservation planning. Using geo-referenced gorgonian distribution data, together with explanatory environmental variables, predictive models have been used to map the spatial dist...