Purpose: Sustainable housing can be considered as one of the important indicators of development and progress. Thus, identifying the characteristics and methods of providing sustainable housing is important. ...

Purpose: One of the strategies to develop rural regions in most countries is to promote rural tourism. One of the features of rural tourism is its fragmented physical nature; therefore, in recent years, the rural tourism ...

Purpose: Rural economy depends substantially on agricultural activities. As Iran is situated on the belt of drought, there is a serious threat for rural economy, and as a consequence a threat for rural ...

“My flower has only four thorns" expresses the vulnerability of plants confronted with a rate of destruction never experienced before, in spite of the valuable functions that they perform and the commercial value that they ...

Purpose: Coping water scarcity and food production in Iran require some appropriate Futures Studies (FS) paradigm. Integral Futures Studies (IFS) is applied and examined for studying the futures of water ...

Purpose: The current paper aimed at developing a transport need index to measure the needs of transport disadvantaged groups in rural areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This transport supply index, ...

Purpose: Quality of life is a broad concept, which its importance is increasingly growing. This concept in general term is used to describe how humans meet their needs or the extent to which individuals ...