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Received: 2022/08/11 | Accepted: 2022/11/5 | Published: 2022/11/26
Received: 2022/08/11 | Accepted: 2022/11/5 | Published: 2022/11/26
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Parsaei K, Amoughin Z, Abbasi A, Mahkoee H. Geopolitical Analysis of Natural and Human Capabilities of Fars Province to Achieve Environmental Development. GeoRes 2022; 37 (4) :475-483
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1- Human Geography Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
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Aims: Environmental issues in regional and extra-regional territories have acquired a geopolitical nature. The different power of each geographical environment has provided a different position for that region. This study aimed to investigate the natural and human factors affecting the environmental development of Fars province.
Methodology: This descriptive-analytical research was done in 2022-23 in Fars province. Data were collected by a questionnaire, studying the research background, and the characteristics of the region. The list of criteria affecting the environmental development was prepared by evaluating expert opinions, and Vicor, Topsis and Shannon entropy methods were used for weighting and Copeland's method was used to determine the final weight of the criteria.
Findings: Four economic, social, environmental and cultural-tourism criteria were recognized as effective factors on the environmental development of Fars province. In the economic criterion, the factors of development of mines and factories, infrastructure, welfare level, technology, employment and domestic and foreign investment, in the environmental criteria, natural resource factors, water networks, communication networks, topography, distribution of population points and lakes and wetlands, in the social criterion, the factors of awareness and information level, population structure, environmental performance, ethno-cultural characteristics and education, and in the cultural-tourism criterion, foreign tourists, national antiquities, world monuments and domestic tourists have influenced the environmental development of Fars province, respectively.
Conclusion: In order to achieve environmental goals, it is necessary to plan the development of human and environmental capabilities to preserve the environment for future generations. The planning of each of the desired components causes a direct and indirect effect on other components.
Methodology: This descriptive-analytical research was done in 2022-23 in Fars province. Data were collected by a questionnaire, studying the research background, and the characteristics of the region. The list of criteria affecting the environmental development was prepared by evaluating expert opinions, and Vicor, Topsis and Shannon entropy methods were used for weighting and Copeland's method was used to determine the final weight of the criteria.
Findings: Four economic, social, environmental and cultural-tourism criteria were recognized as effective factors on the environmental development of Fars province. In the economic criterion, the factors of development of mines and factories, infrastructure, welfare level, technology, employment and domestic and foreign investment, in the environmental criteria, natural resource factors, water networks, communication networks, topography, distribution of population points and lakes and wetlands, in the social criterion, the factors of awareness and information level, population structure, environmental performance, ethno-cultural characteristics and education, and in the cultural-tourism criterion, foreign tourists, national antiquities, world monuments and domestic tourists have influenced the environmental development of Fars province, respectively.
Conclusion: In order to achieve environmental goals, it is necessary to plan the development of human and environmental capabilities to preserve the environment for future generations. The planning of each of the desired components causes a direct and indirect effect on other components.
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