Population Growth and the Interaction of Urban Environmental Challenges, Case Study: Zahedan

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسنده

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Urban Design, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.

چکیده

During the recent decades, urban management in Iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. The present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been prioritized, and what strategies or solutions are needed to meet or reduce them. Zahedan is among those cities of Iran that due to its uncontrolled growth in terms of its framework and population, has exposed urban management to many challenges during the last two or three decades, specially, in the domain of the environment. The present study aims to investigate and analyze the effects of challenges, resulted from population growth, on the environment of Zahedan. This research’s method is descriptive-analytical and the gathered data and information have been statistically processed and analyzed using SPSS software. The results indicate that the greatest challenge in the domain of the environment is related to «water resources». Considering the population growth, human, soil, and air resources are respectively other problems which can lead to further significant problems in urban management system.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Population Growth and the Interaction of Urban Environmental Challenges, Case Study: Zahedan

نویسنده [English]

  • Seyed Moslem Seyedalhosseini
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Urban Design, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.
چکیده [English]

During the recent decades, urban management in Iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. The present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been prioritized, and what strategies or solutions are needed to meet or reduce them. Zahedan is among those cities of Iran that due to its uncontrolled growth in terms of its framework and population, has exposed urban management to many challenges during the last two or three decades, specially, in the domain of the environment. The present study aims to investigate and analyze the effects of challenges, resulted from population growth, on the environment of Zahedan. This research’s method is descriptive-analytical and the gathered data and information have been statistically processed and analyzed using SPSS software. The results indicate that the greatest challenge in the domain of the environment is related to «water resources». Considering the population growth, human, soil, and air resources are respectively other problems which can lead to further significant problems in urban management system.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • population growth
  • Environment
  • urban management
  • Water resources
  • human resources
  • Soil and Air Resources

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معماری و شهرسازی آرمان شهر
دوره 9، شماره 16
شهریور 1395
صفحه 169-180

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  • تاریخ دریافت: 21 تیر 1393
  • تاریخ بازنگری: 06 آبان 1395
  • تاریخ پذیرش: 08 آبان 1395

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