Mohammad Reza Alizadeh; Haidar Lotfi; Ezatollah Ezati
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Cities are always the centers of innovation and creativity. Richard Flouride believes that cities are the places where creativity occurs and have always been the drivers of development and attention, and guidance of humans’ creativity energy. The quality of life in city is directly affected by ...
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Cities are always the centers of innovation and creativity. Richard Flouride believes that cities are the places where creativity occurs and have always been the drivers of development and attention, and guidance of humans’ creativity energy. The quality of life in city is directly affected by the kind of look at urban issues. Urban creativity as a strategic approach can affect the quality of living in cities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of membership in the network of UNESCO's creative cities on sustainable urban development in Iran, focusing on of Isfahan as a case. The study was carried out using a researcher-made questionnaire with a sample of 384 Isfahan citizens in 2018 selected randomly. In this research, the instrument used includes a researcher-made creative city questionnaire with three components (economic, social, cultural) and sustainable urban development questionnaire with three components (economic, sociocultural, and environmental). SPSS was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study showed that membership in the creative city network has been effective in sustainable urban development in Isfahan. As the social and economic components of the creative city change, the sustainable development of Isfahan also changes. The findings also showed that the economic component of the creative city is more important than other components of the creative city regarding the impact on sustainable urban development in Isfahan.
yashar zaki; Hasan Karimi; Mohamad bagher Ghalibaf; Javad Etaat
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The Mediterranean region is located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, where considered as the prelude to the rivalry between the East and the West, the conflict between the Arab countries and Israel, and the confrontation between the developing and industrialized countries on both sides of the ...
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The Mediterranean region is located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, where considered as the prelude to the rivalry between the East and the West, the conflict between the Arab countries and Israel, and the confrontation between the developing and industrialized countries on both sides of the sea. One of the most important geopolitical regions of the Mediterranean area is the eastern Mediterranean. Syria, Lebanon, and occupied Palestine are considered as Iran's "geopolitical core" in the eastern part of Mediterranean Sea. Iran as one of the important regional actors has paid special attention to the eastern Mediterranean Sea since 1980. The question is what effects does the eastern Mediterranean area could have on Iran's geopolitical territoriality in southwest Asia? In response, it can be said that the Eastern Mediterranean has an important place in the geopolitical realm of Iran in Southwest Asia and its leadership over the Islamic world. The findings of this study indicate that the position of the Eastern Mediterranean on the Mediterranean coast, proximity to the Straits of Gibraltar and Suez, the presence of Shiite minorities in Syria and Lebanon, the only countries close to Iran in the adoption of regional and global policies, complement Iran's geopolitics in dominating the central part of the Islamic world, the Iranian-Iraqi energy route to Europe, and Iran's embankment against Israel are important geopolitical factors that justify Iran's regional policy in the eastern Mediterranean. Therefore, it can be said that the geopolitical territorialization of Iran in the eastern Mediterranean is a realistic matter and in line with the national interests of Iran.
Arash Ghorbani Sepehr; Mohsen Janparvar
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The present research tries to determine the epistemic realm from the point of view of philosophy of science. To this end, it is possible to understand the issues and issues within the territory of this new trend in political geography, while understanding better the political geography of Urban Space. ...
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The present research tries to determine the epistemic realm from the point of view of philosophy of science. To this end, it is possible to understand the issues and issues within the territory of this new trend in political geography, while understanding better the political geography of Urban Space. The current research, data collection type, is a component of qualitative research. Qualitative research includes a set of material-interpretational practices that make the world visible. Thus, this research is essentially a "theoretical fundamentally" type of research, and the "descriptive-analytic" method has been used in terms of how the results are processed and interpreted and in line with the qualitative strategy. The political geography of the urban space is a specialized field that studies the urban space. But what is being studied in the Urban Space studying is the action taken from the human dimension of the urban space. This action has led to the formation of diverse topics in the urban space. The political geography of the urban space seeks to organize the urban space, studying and gaining recognition in this area. In sum, the political geography of the city is a specialized field that studies the urban Space. Therefore, in order to achieve this, the study area shapes the geopolitical orientation of the urban space, namely: citizens, territory and territory, local government - urban, borders, elections, security, identity, organization and political alignment of the city, space justice, actors, Political dangers, urban discourse, urban diplomacy, immigration, effective forces, civil rights ", each of which studies part of the urban space Studying.
Mohammad Akhbari; Mohamad Basiri Sadr
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Currently greatest environmental threats are global warming and climate change. Climate change will lead to shortages of water and food, disease, unemployment, migration, poverty, tensions on resources and global instability. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of climate change in Iran ...
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Currently greatest environmental threats are global warming and climate change. Climate change will lead to shortages of water and food, disease, unemployment, migration, poverty, tensions on resources and global instability. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of climate change in Iran and its impact on sustainable development and geopolitics. This research is a descriptive analytic study and used survey method. The questionnaire was designed based on the indicators of the effects of climate change, sustainable development, and geopolitics and was distributed among experts in meteorological, environmental and passive defense organizations. Sixty questionnaires were received. Measuring the reliability and validity using Software (pls) and proper patterning, the research hypothesis was proved. Findings showed taht there is a significant and reverse relation between the effects of climate change and sustainable development. Also, the reduction of sustainable development has a negative and significant effect on the geopolitical power of the Iran. Moreover, the reduction of sustainable development has a mediating role in the impact of climate change on geopolitics. In this study, Friedman's comparative test, prioritization of influential parameters of climate change in geopolitics was discussed. Amongst the factors, poverty and social anomalies, drought and immigration have the most negative impact on the country's geopolitics. The suggestions emphasized the necessity of implementing effective methods, watershed management and optimal exploitation of water resources, increasing productivity through new irrigation practices, changes in crop operations and cultivars, replacing crops that require less water and soil tillage, using clean energies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to be consistent with the effects of climate change.
Hamid Dorj; Hussein Masoudnia
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Today, the Syrian crisis has become one of the most important international issues and has attracted the attention of many regional and trans-national actors. The study of the attitudes and interests of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia regarding this crisis and their attempt to formulate regional equations ...
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Today, the Syrian crisis has become one of the most important international issues and has attracted the attention of many regional and trans-national actors. The study of the attitudes and interests of Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia regarding this crisis and their attempt to formulate regional equations to keep their own interests and their regional allies’, is significant. The main question of the paper is that what approach Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia take and what interests they seek from the developments in Syria? The article's hypothesis is that Iran has been supporting Bashar al-Assad in order to maintain its strategic influence in the region, especially Lebanon. On the other hand, although Turkey initially adopted a subversive approach, it was already supporting the Syrian political system because of concerns about its security and political stability as a result of developments in the Kurdish region of Syria. Saudi Arabia is also pursuing the policy of overthrowing Assad to counter the regional influence of Iran and the expansion of Salafist discourse. Qualitative analysis was used to analyze the data.
Ali Valigholizadeh; Omid Mobaraki; Ramin Moradi
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Today, migration in developing countries has become a major issue, and in Iran, Tehran as the largest city in the country, and because of the concentration of facilities and services, it is the most attractive place for the ethnic migrants from all over the country. The identity and conflicting behaviors ...
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Today, migration in developing countries has become a major issue, and in Iran, Tehran as the largest city in the country, and because of the concentration of facilities and services, it is the most attractive place for the ethnic migrants from all over the country. The identity and conflicting behaviors of ethnic migrants in Tehran metropolis may threaten social unity of the society and challenge social security of the city. This would be more tangible for Azerbaijani migrants as the largest ethnic migrant group in Tehran. This study tried to investigate by using a descriptive-analytic method, questionnaires and interviews with migrants, the identity behaviors and the relationship between the sense of national identity and ethnic identity among Azerbaijani migrants in District 10 of Tehran metropolis. Results showed that the identity behaviors of Azerbaijani migrants in Tehran, in spite of their partial tendency to ethnic identity, usually are line with national identity due to the long history of Azerbaijanis’ attachment to the country and national identity.
