the socio-economic factors affecting land use changes in the maraveh tappeh region was determined from the viewpoint of beneficiaries and experts. the items of questionnaires designed as rating scale based on the five options likert. reliability of questionnaires was determined by cronbach's alpha. two sets of questionnaires were designed for beneficiaries and experts. reliability of benef...

introduction: land use in the overall concept is said to be the type of using land in the current situation which contains all users in different sectors of agriculture, natural resources and the industry. protecting land use is as follows: “prevent the change of application of certain lands by their owners, if their change has negative natural, economic, political, cultural, or scientific effe...

this study investigated the factors influencing the decision to plant almonds in the saman region of chaharmahal-bakhtiari province in central iran through conducting an economic survey in 2005. using portfolio investment theory and econometric model esti-mation (shively, 1998), this paper identifies the most important factors influencing the in-dividual farmer’s decision concerning the number ...

abstract:â green spaces, especially urban gardens have been a subject of study in many countries for a long time, but the subject has been mostly overlooked in iran. therefore, this study tries to analyze the changes in land use and how we can protect green spaces (gardens) in jahrom in line with sustainable development in 1996-2006. the data in this study were collected through local investiga...

We provide characterization and stability results for the stationary equilibria of a competitive infinite-horizon model that incorporates the nutritional requirements of physical labor. We find that for many aggregate land stocks, there is a large continuum of stationary equilibrium unemployment rates. Since unemployment can be seen to stem from inequality in the initial distribution of land ow...