Environmental Education
Ghasem Zarei; Foroozan Ghazaei; Araz rashedi zahra
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This study aimed to investigate the role of environmental knowledge and attitudes toward sustainable consumption with behavioral intention and the use of household appliances with sustainable water consumption of women in Ardabil City in the winter of 2020. The research method is descriptive-correlational ...
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This study aimed to investigate the role of environmental knowledge and attitudes toward sustainable consumption with behavioral intention and the use of household appliances with sustainable water consumption of women in Ardabil City in the winter of 2020. The research method is descriptive-correlational and applied in terms of purpose. The statistical population of this study was women over 20 years old and users of household appliances in Ardabil. The data collection method is field type and data collection tools include a standard questionnaire of environmental knowledge of Pacho and Lavrador (2017), the attitude towards sustainable water consumption of Ahmad and Arfin (2018), the sustainable water consumption behavior of Kang. (2017) and the intention to purchase of a device with sustainable water consumption of Nguyen. (2016).in order to assess the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability coefficient were used, which indicated the reliability (above 80% and above 70%) of all research components.384 questionnaires were distributed and analyzed. The results indicate that environmental knowledge affects the behavior of sustainable water consumption but does not affect the use of household appliances with sustainable water consumption. the attitude towards sustainable water consumption has a significant effect on the intention to use home appliances with sustainable water consumption and sustainable water consumption, and finally, the intention to use home appliances with sustainable water consumption has a significant effect on sustainable water consumption behavior.
Environmental Education
Hamid Naseri; Parivash Nourbakhsh; Mehdi Kohandel; Abbas Khodayari
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The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting sustainable development in mountaineering. The research method is exploratory and applied in terms of its purpose, and 150 mountaineers from the centers of the northwestern provinces of the country were selected by purposive sampling. The ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting sustainable development in mountaineering. The research method is exploratory and applied in terms of its purpose, and 150 mountaineers from the centers of the northwestern provinces of the country were selected by purposive sampling. The face and content validity of the research instrument was confirmed by a group of experts, and its constructive validity was confirmed by factor analysis based on structural equation modeling. Based on orthogonal rotational heuristic factor analysis, 34 items were categorized into eight factors that accounted for 52.44 of the variance of sustainable development. It is noteworthy that the results of confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha coefficients supported the eight-factor structure of the 34-item questionnaire and confirmed its validity and reliability. The results of this study and the extractive dimensions of the tool show the factors affecting sustainable development in mountaineering sports and the results also can help mountaineers to pay more attention to some of the aspects of sustainable development in mountaineering and mountainous areas.
Environmental Education
Nasrin Rezanadzaery; َAbolfaz Ghasemzadeh Alishahi; Peyman Yarmohammadzadeh
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The purpose of this study is to present a conceptual model for green management with a sustainable development approach. The current research is developmental in terms of purpose, and this study was conducted based on the grounded theory methodology. The participants included 26 experts in the field ...
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The purpose of this study is to present a conceptual model for green management with a sustainable development approach. The current research is developmental in terms of purpose, and this study was conducted based on the grounded theory methodology. The participants included 26 experts in the field of environment, experienced principals of secondary schools, sustainable development experts in the Department of Education of East Azerbaijan Province, and professors with knowledge in the field of green management from Azad University and Tabriz University. In order to achieve theoretical saturation in the semi-structured interview, the sample was selected purposefully and by snowball method. The validity of the data was confirmed with acceptability, transferability, verifiability, and reliability. Strauss and Corbin's three-stage coding process (open, central, selective) with MAXQDA software was applied to analyze data. The results of the research indicate that the causal factors affecting the green management of secondary schools include green futurism, the establishment of the environmental management system, and strategic developments. Functional isolation, limitations, professional health barriers, and lack of commitment are intervening factors. Sustainable transportation, use of clean technology, saving energy, and managing water consumption and waste are identified as actions. Total quality management implementation, social impacts, and performance improvement are extracted as outcome factors. Finally, the results of the selective coding showed that the main factors are teaching the protection of basic resources and the environment, the development of green technology, and sustainable culture to modify the consumption pattern.
Environmental Education
fatemeh rezaei; Mojtaba Tabari; ali Farhadi Mahalli; Toraj Mojibi
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an ...
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an applied research conducted through a survey. The statistical population included 121456 Iranian graduates with a master's degree or PhD in the field of environment. Of this population, based on the Cochran formula, a sample consisting of 384 respondents was formed, the individual members of which were selected using stratified random sampling. The validity and reliability of the measurement tool were assessed and confirmed using content validity (of face validity type) and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. The results indicated the dimensions of the link between organization policies and goals, community expectations and feelings, and reflecting stakeholders' views as relevant in the gap analysis model. In addition, the results indicated that the exigent policy gap analysis model of the environment had the required validity. The proposed model in this research which has been further improved by expert views may serve as an applied model for policymakers, practitioners, and executives of environmental policies, and particularly, the Iranian Department of Environment.
Environmental Education
Sorena Zandi; Mehran Farajollahi
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Considering the importance of environmental education in improving the relationship between humans and their environment, the purpose of this article is to identify the positive actions of Australia in this field. Because the usefulness of sharing information and benefiting from the experiences ...
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Considering the importance of environmental education in improving the relationship between humans and their environment, the purpose of this article is to identify the positive actions of Australia in this field. Because the usefulness of sharing information and benefiting from the experiences of other countries is one of the main elements of environmental education, this article focuses on examining their strategic priorities, previewed goals until 2025, and this country's completed projects, as reported by the Australian Association of Environmental Education. The method used in this article is descriptive-analytical research, and data collection is done via document analysis. The results show AAEE’s emphasis on setting its goals on providing necessary financial needs for its projects, supporting environmental educators and teachers, and expanding inter-chapter and international communications. From the findings of the article, appropriate models in accordance with the social, economic, psychological, and environmental characteristics of Iran are extracted, and with the necessary changes to improve the integration of these projects with such traits, they can be implemented in Iran. In the conclusion section, suggestions for building similar educational models are presented.
Environmental Education
Zaeimeh Farjadinezhad; Mehrdad Goodarzvand Chegini; Hamidreza Rezaee Kelidbari; Morad Rezaee Dizgah
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model of positive organizational behavior with an emphasis on environmental consequences and also to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of positive organizational behavior with individual, organizational, and environmental consequences. ...
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The purpose of this study is to develop a model of positive organizational behavior with an emphasis on environmental consequences and also to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of positive organizational behavior with individual, organizational, and environmental consequences. This is an applied research with an integrated method (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population of the study included water and sewage industry experts and faculty members (20 people) who were sampled by snowball technique. For the quantitative part, 120 water and sewage workers in the country (2019-2020) were selected through the relative selection technique. Data collection tools include semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires. Qualitative data were analyzed by open, axial, and selective coding methods, and MAXQDA11, Smart PLS2, and SPSS23 were used to analyze the content of data and validation. In the quantitative part, content validity is used. The reliability and evaluation of measures were estimated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient method (89%). Findings from the present study showed that positive organizational behavior can be analyzed in five levels (individual, group, organizational, social, and environmental) and in the form of six categories (causal factors, characteristics, strategies, platforms, interventionists, consequences). Also, positive organizational behavior has a positive and significant relationship with environmental (0.711), behavioral (0.631), organizational outcomes (0.685). Therefore, it is necessary to model successful and leading organizations in the field of positive organizational behavior, training and holding workshops in the field of environment, creating a positive organizational atmosphere in order to achieve sustainable development of the environment.
Environmental Education
Khadijeh Javan
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To gain sustainable development, balanced development with maintaining environmental values, should be think about the evolution of the biological culture of societies so that people adapt to the sustainability. The purpose of this research was to study Geography students' awareness, attitudes, and behaviors ...
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To gain sustainable development, balanced development with maintaining environmental values, should be think about the evolution of the biological culture of societies so that people adapt to the sustainability. The purpose of this research was to study Geography students' awareness, attitudes, and behaviors toward sustainable development at Urmia University. This study is survey research, and the statistical population is Geography students at Urmia University. Among them, 149 students were selected using random sampling method, and the required information was collected by a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed based on the evaluation of experts, and its reliability was confirmed by calculating Cronbach's alpha (environmental awareness= 0.71, environmental attitude= 0.78, and environmental behavior= 0.75).The findings indicated that 25.5% of the students had a high level, 41.5% had a medium level, and 33% had a low level of awareness, and 28.2% of students had a strong, 33.5% had a moderate, and 38.3% had a weak attitude toward sustainable development. Also, 42% of students had good behavior, 32.2% had moderate, and 35.8% had poor behavior in sustainable development. The results of the correlation analysis showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between these sets: awareness and attitude, awareness and behavior, and attitude and behavior toward sustainable development. Stepwise regression analysis indicated that attitude and Grade Average predict 19% of the variation inGeography students' behavior toward sustainable development. Therefore, it can be said that environmental education and changing students' attitude toward the environment are prerequisites for achieving sustainable development.
Environmental Education
Zahra Akbarzade Niaki; Farinaz Farbod
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Today, fashion as the most dominant consumption phenomenon, has led to consumerism lifestyle, which is considered as the most harmful lifestyle regarding environmental destruction. Now, the most important question in the future is how can lifestyles be directed to survival and continuity? Sustainable ...
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Today, fashion as the most dominant consumption phenomenon, has led to consumerism lifestyle, which is considered as the most harmful lifestyle regarding environmental destruction. Now, the most important question in the future is how can lifestyles be directed to survival and continuity? Sustainable development with the slow-fashion movement in the clothing industry seeks to change the social attitude towards consumption. Hence, the present study has focused on the capabilities and challenges of shared clothing as one of the strategies of sustainable development in the field of clothing for the consumption, under the cultural conditions of our country, using the survey-field method. The statistical population of this study included 300 women aged 18-40 years in Tehran, who were selected by random sampling method. The tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire questions were designed in two parts of the audience's preferences regarding sharing and shareability in the form of 14 open and closed questions. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using SPSS 22. The results revealed that 55% of the respondents were willing to share clothing with others and 45% were not. Respondents who agreed with sharing were also asked about the criteria for sharing, where 67% of sharing was in the form of donation and charity, followed by an average of 59% of helping protect the environment. Also, at 95% confidence level, a significant relationship was found between degree of education and environmental protection.
Environmental Education
Samaneh Karami; Taraneh Enayati
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The present study implemented with the aim of presenting a model of the role of the education system in sustainable development with the Islamic-Iranian model of progress approach. This is both an applied research and a mixed exploratory study (qualitative and quantitative). The research method in the ...
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The present study implemented with the aim of presenting a model of the role of the education system in sustainable development with the Islamic-Iranian model of progress approach. This is both an applied research and a mixed exploratory study (qualitative and quantitative). The research method in the qualitative part was content analysis and in the quantitative part was descriptive survey. Participants in the quality section included 38 education system experts, officials from the UNESCO National Commission's Education Unit and the Higher Education Council, who were selected for interview by purposive sampling method. The statistical population consisted 440 managers, official experts and experts of the General Department of Education in Tehran, 205 of whom were selected by stratified random sampling according to their organizational positions as our research sample. The data gathering tool was a semi-structured interview in the qualitative part and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part. Credibility criteria were considered to ensure the quality of qualitative findings. In this way, the feedback of the participants in the research was applied. Also, in order to validate the findings, the triangulation in investigator method was used. In the quantitative part, the face and content and construct validities of the questionnaire were checked and confirmed and the reliability was also confirmed by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient so that the reliability of all major variables was greater than 0.70. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistical tests including confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results showed that there were 38 components that has role in the education system in sustainable development with the approach of the Iranian Islamic model of progress. Its 29 components in four cultural, social, environmental and economic dimensions were extracted from the content analysis of the interviews and 9 components were obtained from the content analysis of the document of fundamental change in education. The result of studying structural equations also showed a significant relationship among the dimensions of the model.
Environmental Education
Mahdi Janalizadehghazvini; Azar Kafashpor; شئهق rahimpour; MOSAYEB SAMANIAN
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To achieve sustainable development, many organizations are planning to employ environmental management systems Therefore, the establishment of management systems such as environmental management systems and green human resources can play a significant role in achieving this goal. This research ...
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To achieve sustainable development, many organizations are planning to employ environmental management systems Therefore, the establishment of management systems such as environmental management systems and green human resources can play a significant role in achieving this goal. This research aims to present a Green Human Resource Model (GHRM) and to define the indicators and components of HRM. At first, using the Delphi method, a rough questionnaire has been developed and then, using a snowball sampling method, the data was collected through semi-structured interviews with human resources experts including management and environmental science professors and human resources specialists in Mashhad’s municipality. After the analysis of the recorded interviews, the green HRM components were identified. In the quantitative phase, a questionnaire was developed using the data collected from the Delphi steps and gathered from the experts. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were tested using the construct validity method. Utilizing the Cochran formula, 384 municipality staffs take part in the study. Applying structural equations and using the STATA software, the hypotheses were checked the results are as follow: out of eight indicators regarding HRM model, education development and employees’ participation enhancement were not statistically significant. However, the other 6 indicators influenced Mashhad’s municipality environmental performances. According to the estimated standard coefficients, the green development index and green organizational culture development have had the most impact on Mashhad municipality’s environmental performance. The other important factors include green monitoring and evaluation indices, managerial relationships development, development of rewards and compensation for green services and finally, the green choice development. These indicators have had the highest impact on environmental performance, respectively.
Environmental Education
Mahtab Eghtedari; Reza Saboonchi; Nazanin Rasekh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the pathology of environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of all experts from the Ministry of Sport and Youth, with a total of 330 reports. ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the pathology of environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of all experts from the Ministry of Sport and Youth, with a total of 330 reports. According to Morgan's sample size table, 169 individuals were identified as the study sample. The sampling method in this study was classified sampling. The data gathering tool in this research was a researcher-made questionnaire with 22 questions. The validity of this questionnaire was evaluated by experts' opinions and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated 0.81. For analyzing the data of the study, statistical methods such as Kolomography Smirnov, Exploratory Factor Analysis Test, and T-Test were used. The results of the study showed that 6 damages of goals, structure, reward, useful mechanisms, communication and leadership were among the damages related to environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth. The results of the study also showed that the goal-related injury with a mean of 4.17 compared to other injuries was the most important issue. Among the target-related injuries, non-monitoring and evaluation of the extent to which environmental education goals were achieved with a factor load of 0.874 were identified as the most important target-related damages. Given the lack of comprehensive goals and planning and the lack of proper monitoring and evaluation of environmental education at the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, the environmental education of the objectives has led to relative harm.
Environmental Education
Ali Ghorbani
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Considering the establishment of project management engineering in the country by the author, this article focuses on how to design a curriculum and important issues to be considered in the curriculum of civil engineering and project management and its objective is to promote the level of graduates who ...
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Considering the establishment of project management engineering in the country by the author, this article focuses on how to design a curriculum and important issues to be considered in the curriculum of civil engineering and project management and its objective is to promote the level of graduates who are not only unaware of the need for sustainable development, but also do not meet the aspirations of industrial organizations, professionals, and academics. This paper is an applied research based on a case study extracted from research findings. To achieve this objective, a review has been conducted to determine the main areas under study in sustainable development and the concept of sustainability in order to be included in the curriculum planning and course titles, and special attention has been paid to the role of civil engineering and project management. Preliminary data were collected using a review of important articles and credible evidence, specifically on studies in two case studies, one on the Civil Engineering and Project Management program at the University of the North East of England and the other in central Italy, which have been successful. The results based on the above research method have led to the design of a table with basic components to be considered in the civil engineering and project management curriculum in the country, which is self-applied and includes a proposed framework in 9 areas and 75 categories for inclusion in the curriculum of the mentioned disciplines as the output of this research.
Environmental Education
Mojtaba Rafiei; Hadi Ghaffari; Mahtab Paknia
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The main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of sustainable urban development in the social security feeling of citizens. The research method is survey and the data are collected in the field. In the next step, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The opinions of professors ...
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The main purpose of this article is to investigate the role of sustainable urban development in the social security feeling of citizens. The research method is survey and the data are collected in the field. In the next step, a researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The opinions of professors and experts have been used to assess the validity of the questionnaire Cronbach's alpha coefficient was also used to measure the reliability of the questionnaire, which was equal to 0.86. The statistical population included people aged 20 to 54 in Khorramabad, which according to the 2016 census is equal to 70,417 people., and analyzing the results of the questionnaires to examine the impact of sustainable development indicators Urban on the social security of citizens has been investigated and analyzed using regression test to test the research hypotheses. The results of the study indicated that each of the indicators of urban sustainability development (economic, post-social, post-cognitive dimension) had a positive impact on the sense of social security. Finally, we conclude that in general indicators of sustainable urban development on the sense of social security of citizens have an impact.
Parvin Sadeghitabar; Mehdi Shariatmadari
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The educational methods used in the retraining program and improving the level of professional capability of the medical community are one of the concerns in the field of health for sustainable development and quality assurance of health services. Blended learning is a thoughtful integration of e-learning ...
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The educational methods used in the retraining program and improving the level of professional capability of the medical community are one of the concerns in the field of health for sustainable development and quality assurance of health services. Blended learning is a thoughtful integration of e-learning and face-to-face learning, which in the field of continuing education in the medical community can play a significant role in improving the country's health system by improving the quality and quantity of education. This research is applied in terms of purpose and was conducted in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in 2019. To collect data, a combined method including three methods of documentary study, fuzzy Delphi, and survey was used. Sampling method was purposeful and 10 experts and scholars in the fields of continuing medical education and blended learning were interviewed using semi-structured interviews to achieve data saturation. To analyze the content, the qualitative content analysis was used in the first stage and fuzzy Delphi analysis in the second and third stages. At first, 218 initial codes were extracted, which were reduced to 78 codes after continuous review. The results of this qualitative research lead to the identification and introduction of 7 main dimension including institutional, educational management and resource support, technology and design, pedagogical, evaluation and feedback, ethics and learning templates for the continuing education model of the community based on blended learning as well as 28 components and 100 subcomponents. The results of this research can be considered by policy makers and planners in this field and can be used for sustainable development of community health.
Askar Jalalian
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According to the preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, international crimes are crimes that cause for concern the international community. Accordingly, four international crimes have been counted and specified in the statutes. This research, which is of analytical-descriptive type ...
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According to the preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, international crimes are crimes that cause for concern the international community. Accordingly, four international crimes have been counted and specified in the statutes. This research, which is of analytical-descriptive type and with library-documentary method, seeks to provide a strategy for environmental protection.The environment is a common heritage of humanity, and almost all countries suffer as a result of the damage it suffers. Since the Rio 1992 Convention, which linked sustainable development to the environment, the importance of paying attention to the environment has increased. Consideration should be given to recognizing environmental crimes as international crimes so that the International Criminal Court can have jurisdiction over them.this study seeks to answer the question that considering the principle of sustainable development and its necessities, how is it possible to criminalize environmental crimes in the category of international crimes? In other words, how is it possible to develop the concept of international crime into environmental crimes? And what is the relationship between sustainable development and the environment? Research findings indicate that according to several provisions of the Rome Statute of 1998, it is possible to develop the concept of international crime not only to environmental crime but also to other crimes, so in order to make it operational, research efforts must be paved and environmental protection Institutionalized.
Moslem Savari; Fatemeh Naghi Bayranvand
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Rural participation in natural resource management indicates that managing natural resource crises would not be possible without the active participation of rural women due to their active role in production and agriculture. In this regard, this research aims was to role of social capital on self-efficacy ...
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Rural participation in natural resource management indicates that managing natural resource crises would not be possible without the active participation of rural women due to their active role in production and agriculture. In this regard, this research aims was to role of social capital on self-efficacy of rural women in Zagros Forest Conservation by mediating environmental awareness. The statistical population included all rural women over 15 years in Lorestan province (N= 231000). Sample size was using Cochran sampling formula of 226 person by proportional classification method (based on forest area). Data analysis in two sections: descriptive and inferential statistics was software SPSS Win19 and SMARTPls performed. The validity of this study was verified by a panel of experts and calculation of the (AVE) and its reliability by Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability. The results showed that from the viewpoint of rural women, the most important causes of Zagros deforestation were destruction of firewood and rural consumption and high grazing livestock and the most important strategies for protecting forests were to change the livelihoods of forests and to graze for over-entry livestock. In addition, the results indicated that social capital directly and indirectly (through impact on environmental awareness) influenced the self-efficacy of rural women in conservation of Zagros forests. In addition, the results of structural equations showed that social capital and environmental awareness were able to explain 69.4 of the dependent variable of research (self-efficacy).
Mahdiyeh Yazdani; Gholamreza Asadollahfardi
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Today, the issue of sustainable development has become one of the most important global issues and has become the focus of attention and human attention in the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Various human activities, as well as the development of industries and the expansion of urbanization ...
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Today, the issue of sustainable development has become one of the most important global issues and has become the focus of attention and human attention in the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Various human activities, as well as the development of industries and the expansion of urbanization with waste and wastewater, have contaminated soil. Different methods are available to clean up the soil about economic issues. One of them is the electro remediation method, which is often applied in low-permeability fine-grained soils and is successful as a greenhouse effect in reducing the toxicity of heavy metals and is a new and developing approach for organic pollutants. This paper will be presented the effective parameters, the strong points as well as limitations, to clarify the basic concepts in the electro remediation process. Conduct experiments with the three-dimensional arrangement of electrodes instead of the linear arrangement of electrodes could be more practical. Using geosynthetic electrodes to prevent corrosion of metallic electrodes, combining the electro remediation process with other designs and different operational modes, and overcome to the problem of reducing the electro-osmosis flow and reverse electro-osmosis flow with pH control are methods to enhance the rate of removal of pollutants from soils.
Seyedeh Fatemeh Moezzi; Mansoor Shahvali; Razieh Namdar
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Environmental crises are one of the major challenges that the human community is facing. This study was conducted in response to the existence of environmental crises despite the establishment of related institutions and the comprehension of related concepts to sustainable development, and the evolution ...
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Environmental crises are one of the major challenges that the human community is facing. This study was conducted in response to the existence of environmental crises despite the establishment of related institutions and the comprehension of related concepts to sustainable development, and the evolution of the status of the environment and how human beings interact with it in Islamic thought. The purpose of this study, which has been accomplished using a descriptive method of documentary analysis, is to explain, analyze, and compare the three stages of logical, critical, and philosophical thinking of sustainable development. Criticism and analysis of existing perspectives indicate that, in addition to significant advances in the world and the establishment of international treaties, conventions and symposia on sustainability are not intended to preserve the environment and human survival and have a merely technical and material look, So far, it has not responded to the issues of development and sustainability. Therefore, achieving long-term sustainability horizons and their dimensions requires a deeper perspective and beyond purely technical issues and secular science. This study suggests philosophical thinking that is based on Islamic ethics and philosophy and emphasizes the study of environmental crises with the simultaneous help of reason, mysticism, ethics, Qur'an, and Shari'a.
Neda Saberi; Lobat Zebardast; Mahdi Montazer ghaem
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.
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.
Fatemeh Razzaghi Borkhani; Ahmad Rezvanfar; Seyed Hamid Movahed Mohammadi; Seyed Yosef Hejazi
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate Modeling of Effectiveness Information resources and communication channels on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) behavior for Sustainable Development of Citrus Gardens in Mazandaran Province. Population consisted of all citrus farmers in the villages of ...
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate Modeling of Effectiveness Information resources and communication channels on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) behavior for Sustainable Development of Citrus Gardens in Mazandaran Province. Population consisted of all citrus farmers in the villages of 12 county of Mazandaran province, a sample of 290 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method among 122361 citrus Orchard man. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. Validity of questionnaire was determined through sustainable agriculture experts of Mazandaran County and some faculty members at University of Tehran, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Management and Development. The reliability was found to be acceptable. Diagnostic validity with using an average variance extracted (AVE) and reliability with using Cronbach's alpha and composite reliability (CR) was confirmed. To explain the Effectiveness from Methods factor analysis and structural equation modeling with LISREL software, version 8.80 has been used. According to findings, oral and facial resources and channels, written sources and channels, visual-audio sources and channels, virtual and electronic resources and channels can explain 66% of variance of GAP application in sustainable development of gardens. Sufficient information about technology citrus orchardist will enable to make optimum decisions for the adoption of sustainable technology. It is therefore suggested establishing databases and using face to face communication channels of extension agents and agricultural inputs distributors and experts, extension staff, consultancy services of private sector, more gardeners' use of information resources with reliable information regard to needs and necessities and leveling up special and public education in GAP technologies for gardeners have been considered.
Morteza Akbari; Seyyed Ali Badri; Maryam Shamanian; Sama Amini
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The purpose of this study is to examine the goals, motivation, barriers of organic farmers in Ravansar County, Kermanshah, Iran. This study was a descriptive-correlation research. The population of the study was organic farmers in Ravansar. Organic farmers were selected from a list of certified farmers ...
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The purpose of this study is to examine the goals, motivation, barriers of organic farmers in Ravansar County, Kermanshah, Iran. This study was a descriptive-correlation research. The population of the study was organic farmers in Ravansar. Organic farmers were selected from a list of certified farmers obtained from Agriculture Organization. Among them, 51 organic farmers were selected based on a simple sample randomized method. Data analysis was done with SPSS software. The results showed that organic farmers have had the most importance for the health of food and short-term benefits. In order of preference, statement “organic farming can assure world food production” and “organic products are healthier” was the first priority, and in ecological statement “organic farming can improve soil fertility and structure” and economic statement “organic farming can assure the future of a farm” create motivation for organic farming. The most important barriers of organic farming like marketing and the lack of government support for these products, lack of required standards in order to confirm and supply of products to the market and lack of training and informing have mentioned in this context.
Abolfazl Khosravi
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One of the main challenges for managers in recent days is their main focus on sustainable development. Sustainable development with various dimensions such as economic sustainability, social sustainability, political stability and environmental sustainability requires a holistic approach, but the priority ...
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One of the main challenges for managers in recent days is their main focus on sustainable development. Sustainable development with various dimensions such as economic sustainability, social sustainability, political stability and environmental sustainability requires a holistic approach, but the priority of some programs and policies in each of the sustainable development axes is in line with the requirements of the same region and country. On the other hand, social responsibility of organizations and companies is not merely viewed as a moral obligation or social marketing, but a great element in the missing link between government policies and corporate policies. This research has been selected to prioritize the dimensions of sustainable development as well as the dimensions of social responsibility of managers with the Delphi approach of the experts and the hierarchical analysis method, according to the opinion of social sustainability experts as the best criterion for sustainable development and management responsibility as a preferred option. Accordingly, it can be done in the role of managers in industrial and metropolitan communities, with priority being given to social sustainability and the involvement of environmental strategies in the responsibilities of managers.
Motahareh Hamze Robati; Behnaz Mohajeran; Mir Mohammad Seyed Abbaszadeh; Hamid Javdani; Mojtaba Bazrafshan Moghaddam
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This study was conducted to identify the components of sustainable education. The research method is blended exploratory that has been done sequentially in two qualitative and quantitative sections. In the qualitative section, the components of sustainable education were identified by semi-structured ...
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This study was conducted to identify the components of sustainable education. The research method is blended exploratory that has been done sequentially in two qualitative and quantitative sections. In the qualitative section, the components of sustainable education were identified by semi-structured interviews with 11 university professionals selected through purposeful sampling. To validate qualitative findings, participant review strategies and reviewers' strategies have been used. In the quantitative section in the framework of descriptive-survey research method and researcher-made questionnaire, 262 faculty members and students from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were selected by stratified sampling method. The validity of the tool was confirmed by the experts, and its reliability was calculated by the inconsistency rate. For data analysis, content analysis technic has been used in the qualitative section and in the quantitative section hierarchical process method has been used. The findings show that from the perspective of faculty members and students of Ferdowsi University, the components of sustainable education in terms of importance in priority order are: integration of sustainability concepts into learning process with relative weight of 0.075, To learn learning and apply an interdisciplinary approach with weight of 0.046, Applying innovative strategies in the learning process with weight of 0.034, Critical thinking with weight of 0.031, Internationalization of education with weight of 0.018.
