Objectives: This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and collective action in some rural areas of Fars province and at the same time study determining factors affecting the social capital formation. Method: This research was carried out with survey method in the 12 villages of Fars province and selected a sample of 509 head of households. Findings: among indicators o...

Objectives: This paper investigates the relationship between social capital and collective action in some rural areas of Fars province and at the same time study determining factors affecting the social capital formation. Method: This research was carried out with survey method in the 12 villages of Fars province and selected a sample of 509 head of households. Findings: among indicators o...

Water resources such as wetlands, in addition to their economic and social importance, are ecologically valuable sources of aquaculture production. Due to its effects on aquatic environments, necessity of monitoring and awareness of the spatial and temporal distribution of chlorophyll-a is important for environmental studies. In the new approach to such studies, application of spatial statistic...

Studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. This arti...

The purpose of current article is to study the effect of sense of place on creating the urban identity in new cities. In order to fulfill the mentioned purpose, the key concepts of research and the theories related to the issue were studied. According to it, in order to collect the data, library method and note taking tool were used. The studies indicated the presence of human in the environmen...