The aim of the research in paper is to evaluate state rural settlements Brčko District with regard development tourism. Together Tourism Department District, five experts from field tourism were selected and they evaluated current this part Bosnia Herzegovina. evaluations processed using fuzzy approach SWARA (Stepwise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis) multi-criteria decision-making method. Usin...

INTRODUCTION The government of Sudan has consistently accepted refugees on a humanitarian basis since the mid 1960s. The refugees in the country are in: (i) reception centres; (ii) organized wageearning and semi-urban settlements; and (iii) urban and rural areas where refugees have self-settled among the local population. The main concern here is the self-settled urban refugees, with more empha...

abstract from 165 millions cubic meters of water which is used in kalat region, 60 millions cubic meters is surface water and 105 millions cubic meters is underground water. most of water needed in this region, is provided by the rivers. there is not any problem for providing water in agricultural section, drinking water and hygiene sections in the region. the most important problem in the regi...

The prevalence of atopic eczema (AE) has risen over the past few decades. There is a paucity of data on the prevalence of AE in South Africa. The ISAAC phase 1 study reported a prevalence of 5 10% in Cape Town schoolchildren. A recent study by Todd et al. conducted among Xhosa children demonstrated a point prevalence (dermatologist-diagnosed) of 0.7%, 1.1% and 3.7% in rural, peri-urban and urba...

The objective of this study was to determine the species and distribution of ticks infesting domestic dogs in southern Mozambique. To this end 89 collections were taken from dogs and the geographic coordinates of the localities at which they were made noted. Fifty-eight of these collections were from animals in the city of Maputo and 16 from animals at rural settlements close to Maputo. A furth...

Through interpreting Landsat TM images, this study analyzes the spatial distribution of rural settlements in China in 2000. It calculates rural residential land percentage for every 1-km(2) cell. The entire country is divided into 33 regions to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamic patterns of rural residential land during the 1990s. According to the remote sensing survey, the rural residenti...

Forty years ago, Manuel Castells asked whether urban sociology had a subject matter and whether the term urban still had meaning—and this article reopens these and related questions. It also wonders why today’s American urban sociology has concentrated on cities, especially big ones, concurrently virtually ignoring the three other types of communities—suburbs, towns, and rural areas—in which a ...

1. introduction today, sustainability of rural and urban settlements and their population in developing world is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. however, today due to development of urbanization, the rural areas have undergone many changes . these changes have been concurrent with the developing process of urbanization and unorganized expansion of cities on the one hand, and...