The Chinese Loess Plateau is suffering from severe soil erosion. The eco-environmental changes of the plateau have attracted considerable attentions both from scientists and local governments. Aiming at the regional features of eco-environment and main environmental problems of Linfen City, the synthetic evaluation index system including Organism Abundance index, Vegetation Cover index, Water D...

it has been encountering with large modifications and developments during recent decades and it makes large developments at rey & islamshahr regions. as the habitation areas as shaped in different dimensions. thought it can investigate the implicational structural at large scales even at littler scales too. nevertheless the essential applications of living areas on over coming life need such ha...

the purpose of this study is the analysis of the farmers economic behavior to reduce the adverse environmental effects of agricultural chemical inputs by using contingent valuation approach and tobit model by heckman's two stage. to achieve the desired goal, 100 questionnaires collected by a random sampling from farmers of kashaf- rood basin in mashhad city in 2013. results showed that variable...

The Korean government has promoted a variety of environmental policies to revitalize pro-environmental consumption, and the government’s budget for this purpose has increased. However, there is a lack of quantitative data and analysis regarding the effects upon the pro-environmental consumption of education and changing public awareness of the environment. In addition, to improve pro-environmen...

objective: the prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing worldwide. this study investigated the prevalence of obesity and its associated factors in schoolchildren of neishabour, winter 2006. materials and methods: in a cross–sectional study, 1471 students, aged 6-12 years, were selected by a two-stage cluster sampling. height and weight of the students were measured and bmi was calculated. ...