the psychological effects and mental health issues in natural disaster is one of the most important affairs which have got less attention. there have been a great amount of health and social policies confronting with these physicaly and financially problems. this selection deals with the importance 'of mental health in natural disasters and the lack of psychiatrits psychologists and counse...

background: social support is a form of social capital which can be related to the health of patients. chronic diseases such as diabetes are incurable but they can be controlled. however, the patient is always facing stressful physical, mental and social factors. therefore, he needs to receive different kinds of supports. the present research aimed to determine the factors of social support in ...

Researchers studying on adaptation and resilience of systems mainly seek to reduce the vulnerability of extremely complex social-ecological systems against potential changes. Since major portion of natural resources of Iran is interrelated with various users and social groups. Present study focused upon the necessity of studying structural characteristics of social capital of rangeland users in...

this research was conducted to investigate the factors contributing to thefailure in the forestry and rangeland by-product cooperative companies in lorestanprovince, iran. a descriptive-correlative research design was used. the statisticalpopulations were 1100 people divided into two groups of experts from natural resourceagency in lorestan province and members of cooperative companies. the sam...

in recent decades, iranian villages have experienced an increasing transformation culturally and environmentally due to the social changes. in pre-modern period (about half a century ago), villages were known as the production sources and had an important social and economic credit as cities foundation. however, a number of changes occurred in the rural “lifestyle” resulting from development of...