introduction sustainability assessment has become an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. however, this is a new and evolving concept and there are very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented throughout in the world. the concept of sustainable development can be a state of balance between different aspects of development that aims to disp...

Some of the most important characters in convenience are economic, social equity and optimal distribution of facilities of development among people in societies. Planners are, in different societies in direction for decreasing inequity and poverty, designing many plans. Fundamental steps in design' planning for capturing these goals is paying more attention to plans with an approach to reality ...

introduction: attention to rural development than urban development in the third world not because of the majority of the population in rural areas, but also because it is the final solution to the problem of urban unemployment and decreasing the population density metropolis, development and improvement of the rural environment. rural tourism potentially can be considered as fundamental approa...

rapid population increase, expanding urbanization, lack of employment opportunities, particularly in agriculture, population pressure on natural resources and failing to create and expand medium and large industries, especially in developing countries led industrialization strategy that these countries from the mid-decade villages 1970 in their development programs to consider. this year emphas...

this study aimed to examine key factors affecting rural female facilitators’ role in participatory rural development in tehran province. since the researchers intended to have a better insight into the facilitators’ role and employ inquiry as a learning forum for bringing about changes for all participants, they preferred to use a case study based upon an appreciative inquiry method. the study ...

introduction social trust is an important issue in development matter. it is a new mater and concept in development in general and rural development in particular. dimensions of social trust are the most important purpose for bi-lateral and multi-lateral behaviors. people trust to each other to make relation and through this way they learnt that without participation and cooperation they cannot...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate effect of access to health facilities on the health status of rural households at kermanshah province. statistical pupation of this study consisted of all heads of rural households at bisotoun district in harsin township, kermanshah province, iran (n=1020), that 278 of them were selected by the cluster random sampling method. the main instrument...

In this experiment, wheat plants were exposed to drought stress during seed development then we worked on the obtained seeds. The seed mitochondrial ultra-structure, and antioxidant enzymes in seedling were investigated after exposure to seed accelerated ageing. Drought stress during seed development induced some changes in mitochondrial ultra-structure. Encountering seed development to drought...

introduction the historical experience of development process in developed countries revealed that rural development is a basic requirement for national development and that it should be considered and given high priority. accordingly in iran, the government also paid more attention to rural development in recent years. in this regard, different methods and approaches were implemented due to so...