applying a balanced diet approach to define poverty line, the extent of poverty of the families in the rural vs. urban areas of the karkheh river basin, iran is investigated in the present study. the main source of data is from the household income and expenditure survey figures for years 1983, 1993 and 2004, as provided by the statistical centre of iran. first, a review of different methods of...

The reservoir-induced seismicity (RIS) at the Karkheh dam site with a reservoir capacity of about 7.4x109 meters is investigated. Based on the assessment of the seismicity of the dam site in equal time periods before and after reservoir impoundment, it was found that the number of earthquakes have been tripled after impoundment, while their magnitudes and focal depths become smaller. The averag...

necessary for mental and physical health of citizens and members of urban society- especially metropolitans- is to enjoy favorite, interesting and beautiful spaces. undoubtedly, in metropolitans like isfahan and ahwaz which lack of useful and available urban lands makes the development of such spaces limited, riversides could perform such a role because of different humanistic and natural reaso...

a study with travel cost method (tcm) was performed to evaluate ecotourism demand of lake belonging to karoon 3 dam. for this purpose, 220 clawson questionnaires at highest demand time (february to may 2008) were completed. results of this investigation showed that forecasting outdoor recreational value of karoon 3 dam limits is equal to 2,879,550,000 rials at month, during study. in order to p...