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Ali Pourali; Mohammad Ali Falahi; Aliakbar Naji Meydani
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The effort of countries to increase national income and well-being, if not accompanied by environmental considerations, leads to unrepairable losses. For this reason, the environment over the past few decades has been one of the concerns of human societies. Hence, in recent years, the quality and sustainability ...
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The effort of countries to increase national income and well-being, if not accompanied by environmental considerations, leads to unrepairable losses. For this reason, the environment over the past few decades has been one of the concerns of human societies. Hence, in recent years, the quality and sustainability of the environment have become very important at both the national and international levels. Many governments have realized that they could not isolate environmental performance apart from other measures of development. Hence, the necessity of HDI improvement with the environmental dimensions was a theme of discussion during the most recent Rio+20-United Nation Conference on Sustainable Development (2012), as part of Millennium Development Goals. Since the Human Development Index can describe social development and economic development simultaneously, the main goal of this study is to examine the impact of the dimensions of human development index, especially education, on the Environmental Performance Index. The results based on the panel data fixed effects model using GLS in the 101 selected countries during 2005-2015 show that the three dimensions of the Human Development Index, namely health, education, and welfare, have a positive and significant effect on the environmental performance.
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Hossein Bagherian Hosseini; Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani; Alireza Khajeh-Shahkooei
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Education and learning is an important pillar of sustainable development. Information literacy can help farmers to access and use the information for sustainable agriculture. The present study aimed to assess the information literacy of farmers and related factors in the Torogh region of Mashhad County. ...
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Education and learning is an important pillar of sustainable development. Information literacy can help farmers to access and use the information for sustainable agriculture. The present study aimed to assess the information literacy of farmers and related factors in the Torogh region of Mashhad County. The descriptive-correlation research method was used and 176 farmers were examined through a simple random sampling method. The data collection tool was a questionnaire which its formal validity confirmed by the face validity of faculty members of the Department of Library Science of Ferdosi University of Mashhad and Department of Agricultural Extension and Education of Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was calculated for questionnaire reliability (α=0.79). The results showed that the information literacy of farmers can be assessed at a medium level. Also, information literacy is independent of age, some pieces of agricultural land and the annual income of farmers. But there is a significant and negative correlation between total information literacy and agricultural history. Among the five dimensions of information literacy, studied farmers have a better condition in "adhere to the ethical and legal principles of the use of information". On the contrary, they are weakest in "achieving the required information efficiently and efficiently". This is suggested that necessary training courses for farmers be provided to enhance their capabilities in access and use of agricultural information.
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Neda Saberi; Lobat Zebardast; Mahdi Montazer ghaem
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Vahid Pourshahabi; Masoud Pourkiani; Mohsen Zayande Roodi; Ayoub Sheikhi
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This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection, it is descriptive and survey type. The purpose of this study was to determine the priority of higher education groups for sustainable development in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. For this research, sustainable development ...
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This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection, it is descriptive and survey type. The purpose of this study was to determine the priority of higher education groups for sustainable development in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. For this research, sustainable development indicators have been extracted from the sustainable development model of Sistan and Baluchestan province. After determining the status of the indicators, the desirable condition of each indicator is determined by 4 panels of 50 experts with a fuzzy Delphi method. Finally, the prioritization of higher education study groups and sub-groups was done with the help of experts using the AHP method and the Expert Choice software. The results of this research show that the priority is "Engineering, Production, and Manufacturing", and the second priority is the "Humanities and Arts" group, and the educational group "Educational Sciences" is the third priority for sustainable development of Sistan and Baluchestan province.
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Ahmad Rastegar; Narjes Zargarian
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The purpose of this study was to provide a causal model of the relationships between social support perception and environmental responsibility with regard to the mediating role of psychological capital among secondary school students in Larestan by path analysis. For this purpose, 341 secondary school ...
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The purpose of this study was to provide a causal model of the relationships between social support perception and environmental responsibility with regard to the mediating role of psychological capital among secondary school students in Larestan by path analysis. For this purpose, 341 secondary school students (181 girls and 160 boys) were selected by ratio stratified sampling method and then, answered to a self-report questionnaire consisting of social support (Wax, 1986), psychological capital (Luthans, 2007) and the environmental responsibility (Hui Saos, 2005) subscales. To confirm the reliability of subscales, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used. Overall, the results of the research showed that social support (family support, teachers, and peers) through the mediation of psychological capital (resilience, hope, self-efficacy, and optimism) has an indirect and positive effect on environmental responsibility. Among the components of psychological capital, optimism and hope have the greatest direct impact on environmental responsibility. Among the dimensions of social support, family support has the most indirect effect on environmental accountability.
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Mohammad Jalali; Hamideh Maleksaeidi; Farzad Eskandari; Sakineh Ranjbar
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the attitude of strawberry growers toward sustainable cultivation of strawberry. A descriptive-correlative design with a survey method was used for the research. Using Cochran formula and simple random sampling, 150 strawberry growers were selected from ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the attitude of strawberry growers toward sustainable cultivation of strawberry. A descriptive-correlative design with a survey method was used for the research. Using Cochran formula and simple random sampling, 150 strawberry growers were selected from Sanandaj county for the study. A questionnaire was used for data gathering. Its face validity was approved by a panel of faculty members of the Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Kurdistan. Using a pilot study, the reliability of the questionnaire for the farmers' attitude towards sustainable cultivation was 0.65, which indicates its suitability. Cluster analysis and variance analysis were used to group and compare the studied farmers. The results of cluster analysis indicated that farmers could be classified into three categories of positive, neutral and negative attitudes toward sustainability. The findings of the analysis of variance also showed a significant difference between the three groups of farmers in terms of the number of household members, the level of participation in the agricultural extension programs and the level of trust in the communication canals.
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Asghar Abolhasani; Samira Motaghi; Ehsan Farhadi
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Increased pollution and environmental degradation due to the unilateral development of the industry is one of the issues of interest from international assemblies, conservation organizations and the prevailing view of environmentalists. This, despite the great influence on the economic growth and development ...
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Increased pollution and environmental degradation due to the unilateral development of the industry is one of the issues of interest from international assemblies, conservation organizations and the prevailing view of environmentalists. This, despite the great influence on the economic growth and development of the regions, has created a great deal of danger for the inhabitants of the planet and destroyed the environment by reducing the fertility of the environment. But the expressed view, with the view of development economists, that it is said that in the early stages of development, it is accompanied by a deterioration in the environment, but then reaches a certain level of growth, and at this point, growth tends to improve in the environment (U-inversion hypothesis), especially for developing countries like Iran, and the same, researchers have discussed the relationship between economic growth and air pollution in Iran and the confirmation or rejection of the U-inversion Kuznets hypothesis, with application Indicators of industrialization, economic status, and energy consumption during the period from 1365 to 1395;The results of the estimation of the research model confirm the Kuznets hypothesis in Iran, as well as the significance of the role of industrialization of the country and energy consumption (in reverse) and And the lack of influence of the education indicator (in a current manner) in improving the quality of the environment.
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H. Sayyadi Tooranloo; S. Karimi Taklo; S. Rahimi Ashjerdi
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This research aims to identify and model the factors affecting the adoption of environmental sustainability in information systems by healthcare centers. The statistical population of this study consists of two groups. The first group includes twelve experts whose ideas were used to determine the critical ...
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This research aims to identify and model the factors affecting the adoption of environmental sustainability in information systems by healthcare centers. The statistical population of this study consists of two groups. The first group includes twelve experts whose ideas were used to determine the critical factors and their causal relationships. The second group includes 250 employees, nurses, head nurses, and supervisors of al-Zahra medical and educational center in Isfahan. According to the results obtained from the review of research literature and interview with academic experts and information technology areas of healthcare centers, a total of twenty-four factors were identified in five dimensions of legal requirements, environmental responsibility, environmental legitimacy, resource consumption, and environmental justice. The content validity and construct validity were used along with confirmatory factor analysis to examine the validity of the research questionnaire Also, the overall reliability of a questionnaire based on Cronbach's alpha was 0.888. After collecting the required data, the level of dimensions was first determined in three levels using interpretive structural modeling. The factor of environmental justice was placed at the highest level and the factors of legal requirements and environmental responsibility were placed at the lowest level. The analysis model of the research path was designed based on the research interpretive structural model and it was and implemented using AMOS software. The results from path analysis indicated that among the six paths identified in the interpretive structural model, it was only the path of a legal requirement to resource consumption path that is not meaningful. Moreover, resource consumption has the highest total standard effect on environmental responsibility.
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J. Bahadorikhosroshahi; I. Barghi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social desirability and acceptance in predicting the academic self-efficacy of high school students. The research method was a descriptive correlational. The statistical population of the second-grade high school students in Tabriz 4th educational ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of social desirability and acceptance in predicting the academic self-efficacy of high school students. The research method was a descriptive correlational. The statistical population of the second-grade high school students in Tabriz 4th educational district during the academic year of 2016-2017 was 340 people based on Morgan's table and selected by a multistage random sampling method. The data were collected by McIlroy & Bunting self-efficacy questionnaires (2002), Krone-Marlow's social utility questionnaire (1964), Marlow and Crown social acceptance questionnaires (1960). Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis in SPSS.21 software. The results of this study showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between social desirability and academic self-efficacy and there is a positive and significant relationship between social acceptance and academic self-efficacy. Also, the results of multiple regression analysis showed that the variables of utility and social acceptance could predict meaningful changes in criterion variables (academic self-efficacy) in students. Therefore, planning more studies is recommended for a better understanding of factors to promote desirability and admission and academic self-efficacy.
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Vahid babazadeh; Ghorban-Ali Saboktakin
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participation is an important factor in sustainable development. To this end, people should be informed about sustainable development. However, components of civil society, particularly, social capital, couldn't pave the way for knowledge growth about SD. In the study reported in this paper, the researcher ...
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participation is an important factor in sustainable development. To this end, people should be informed about sustainable development. However, components of civil society, particularly, social capital, couldn't pave the way for knowledge growth about SD. In the study reported in this paper, the researcher scrutinized the relationship between awareness of SD and social capital in a real circumstance in Meshgin-Shahr. To approach the aims of this survey-based investigation, a researcher-made questionnaire was utilized to gather data from over 18 years old. 382 people were selected as the sample of the study, by applying the random cluster sampling method. The descriptive results of the investigation revealed that people's awareness of SD with an average of 4.1 (reference 1-6) is satisfactory and above the average. Also, there is a significant relationship between ″SD awareness″ and two-dimension of social capital, namely ″contact with people″ as well as ″reciprocal norms″. There is not a significant relationship between another dimension of social capital e.g. ″social trust″ and SD awareness. According to regression, 36 percent of the changes in the dependent variable relies on ″contact with people″ and ″reciprocal norms″. To improve the awareness of SD the knowledge about it should be transmitted between people and in their networks. Moreover, an increase in ″social reliance″ is a prerequisite in knowledge growth about SD.
