Recently, artistic places and places known from movies induced an increasing tourism. However, the fast development also challenges the rural planning authorities that are not prepared to manage the high number of tourists. In this paper focus is put on two rural municipalities in southern Sweden. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize and compare tourism development and tourism planning in...

Realizing that family planning is not making a sufficient impact on the rural people as it is on the urban population, it was decided that the authors would study the attitude and knowledge of a rural community towards family planning. The study sample consisted of 200 Malay married women--100 acceptors and 100 nonacceptors from the Kuala Pilah District. The study went from December 4-22, 197...

This paper discusses the practical implementation of the first phase of a systemic framework for the planning of rural telecommunications infrastructure in developing countries. The framework as a whole was developed along the theory of critical systems thinking and consist of three essential phases adapted from Interactive Planning: the formulation of the current reality of a particular rural ...

The heading 'rural planning' as a sector or government involvement is often absent from plan documents in many countries. But policy and legislation related to agricul tural, transporta tion and comt11unica tions, education, health and human services. and social welfare, sectors generally addressed in plans, have had far reaching and profound impacts on the physical conditions of, and infrastru...

in iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. this es...

introduction since 1938, a couple of decades before iranian's revelation, attention to villages and rural development as a part of developmental process in national scale and also in order to analyze social, political, and economical changes has been discussed as a vital part and acted a major part in development policies. however, this attention and dedication to the program are results o...