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Volume 31, Issue 1 (2016)                   GeoRes 2016, 31(1): 138-156 | Back to browse issues page
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Received: 2015/10/9 | Accepted: 2016/04/23 | Published: 2016/06/17
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Amozad Mehdiraji M, Jalali A, Alipur A, Papoli Yazdi M H, Ghorbani M. "National Transfer Lands " Project Aimed at Developing or Conduit for Land Grabbing in Northern Iran (Case Study: Department of Natural Resources and Watershed Area Sari,Mazandaran). GeoRes 2016; 31 (1) :138-156
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"National Transfer Lands " Project Aimed at Developing or Conduit for Land Grabbing in Northern Iran (Case Study: Department of Natural Resources and Watershed Area Sari,Mazandaran)
Authors Mohammad Amozad Mehdiraji1, Ali Jalali *2, Abbas Alipur3, Mohammad Hossein Papoli Yazdi4, Mahdi Ghorbani5
1- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources ,Tarbiat Modarres University,Tehran,Iran
2- Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources ,Tarbiat Modarres University,Tehran,Iran , jalali_g@modares.ac.ir
3- Natural Resources and Agricultural Research Center of Mazandaran,Iran
4- Department Of Geography ,Tarbiat Modarres University ,Iran.
5- Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran,Tehran,Iran
Abstract   (7743 Views)

Natural resources general organization of Mazandaran Province on the strength of rehabilitation & transfer law (approved in 1980 and its executive regulations due to 31 & 32 issues) have transferred national lands to some persons and legal sectors in order to unemployment, poverty and Natural resources degradation reduction and also socio-economic condition improvement by industrial and agricultural activities in rural communities. Now, after 3 decades of approval and execution of transfer process, we decided to analyze socio-economic effects and its success level in Mazandaran Province. Among the statistical society in present study including 586 transferred cases from 1993 to 2013, 169 samples were randomly selected by Morgan table and these cases were interviewed directly. Our considered variables include: (a) Natural resources area (b) employment level (c) success & efficiency factors. After collecting and arrangement of field data by questionnaires and analyses them by SPSS18 software, the founding were presented as charts and tables by Chi-square method. The results have show that 4709 hectares of national lands have transferred up to now and 56% of this process were allocated to agricultural activities and we finally found that the execution of transfer process have no worthy influence to its targets.

Keywords:
lands transfer, natural resources, 31 & 32 issues laws, Mazandaran .