Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran and located on the southwestern part of the country. Its capital is Shahrekord. It has an area of 16,332 square kilometers and a population of 857,910. To study of human development used the Surplus Biocappacity (SB) and Human Development Index (HDI). This research accrued in the shahr-e-kord, Boroojen, Farsan, Ardal, Lordega...

The fourth Global Forum on Human Resources (HRH) for Health was held in Ireland November 2017. Its Dublin declaration mentions that strategic investments in the health workforce could contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth and are an imperative to shared prosperity. What is remarkable about the investment frame for health workforce development is that there is little debate about the ty...

On 25 September 2015, the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Agenda sets out 17 aspirational objectives, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), associated with 169 targets, which will serve governments, international organizations, the private sector and civil society to chart the path of human advancement over the next 15 year...

Determinants of adaptive and mitigative capacities (e.g., availability of technological options, and access to economic resources, social capital and human capital) largely overlap. Several factors underlying or related to these determinants are themselves indicators of sustainable development (e.g., per capita income; and various public health, education and research indices). Moreover, climat...

Along with the rapid development of the Yellow River delta’s economy, the contradiction between population, environment, and resource is highlighted, the land problem has more and more influence to the human survival, and the sustainable use of the land becomes necessary for the coordination and getting along with the human and the natural environment. Based on the land information, we analysis...

With the increasing of labor salaries, the RMB exchange rate, resource product prices and requirements of environmental protection, inexpensive labor and land are no longer the decisive factor of regional competitiveness. From this perspective, China needs to shift from the extensive development mode to the sustainable development mode. Science and technology resources rational allocation is on...

UNESCO (2006) indicated that Faculties of Education and teacher training institutions, in particular, need to reorient their study programs to address the quest for Sustainable Development. The latter is an evolving and dynamic concept in terms of its conceptual definition. According to the World Commission on Environment and Development (1987, p. 43) “Sustainable development is development tha...

W hen scientists and public policy specialists gathered at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, New York, to assess the State of the Planet in 2004 (www.earth.columbia.edu/sop2004), their overriding concern centered on global-scale interactions between the growing human population and Earth processes under increasing strain. The fourfold increase of the human population during the past c...