Balance between place attachment and migration based on subjective adaptive capacity in response to climate change: the case of Famenin County in Western Iran

Khanian, Mojtaba; Serpoush, Behrad; Gheitarani, Nima

doi:10.1080/17565529.2017.1374238

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“…The geographical location of the city of Hamedan as a ring-shaped city built on a vast plain, with bases predominantly situated in the lush green valleys, has made it possible to settle settlements in certain places. The physical boundaries of the city of Hamadan are very close to the physical boundaries of the surrounding villages and the settlements of this city are mainly on the fringes and ends of the physical boundaries of the city (Khanian et al 2019). Physical communication between urban and rural areas in the city is easy to establish and many villagers can easily reach their village after settling in the city.…”

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“Investigating the Mechanism of Place and Community Impact on Quality of Life of Rural-Urban Migrants”

Gheitarani

El-Sayed

Cloutier

et al. 2019

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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In this study, we explore how urban places and associated community affect one other as well as the quality of life of rural immigrants. The purpose of this study is to provide more accurate insight into the spatial and social factors affecting the quality of life of rural-urban migrants. Migration is closely linked to people's living conditions. Specifically, the feelings one has about the quality of their place and the society in which they live impacts decisions to stay or move from one place to another. If deciding to move, migration affects the quality of life through the migrants' sense of place and the new community they are relocating to. Our study was conducted in Hamedan, Iran-a place that experiences the migration of many different ethnicities given its central location in Hamadan province and the quality of life conditions in surrounding geographical locations. We surveyed 2735 citizens who had migrated to the city in the last 2 to 5 years. Our results indicate that place attachment and social capital, as variables that represent rural migrants' sense of place and urban community, are both related to the quality of life of migrants. Furthermore, social capital moderates place attachment and has a significant impact on subjective quality of life among rural-urban migrants. We suggest that high levels of social capital must be present to ensure a satisfactory subjective quality of life among rural-urban migrants.

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“Investigating the Mechanism of Place and Community Impact on Quality of Life of Rural-Urban Migrants”

Gheitarani

El-Sayed

Cloutier

et al. 2019

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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“…changes in crop type and variety, changes to fertilizer and seed types (and quality), pesticide use changes, the planting of shade trees, water storage, improved irrigation mechanisms, and farm livelihood diversification (Fahad and Wang, 2018;Grüneis et al, 2018). Adaptation decision-making is also in response to both climatic and non-climatic stimuli, and the broader social, political, and economic system(s) within which they operate (Bradshaw et al, 2004), including cultural, social capital and place-based influences (Khanian et al, 2017;Saptutyningsih et al, 2019).…”

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Understanding farmers’ climate adaptation intention in Iran: A protection-motivation extended model

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Adaptation to climate change is a matter of urgent social scientific analysis. Within the agricultural sector of many developing nations, farmers must make long-term decisions to adapt to climate change impacts in order to provide food security and sustainable livelihoods.However, deeper understanding of farmers' decision-making, as a key stakeholder group, is of vital importance in forming adaptive land use policy 'from the bottom-up'. This study investigates the psychosocial factors that influence farmers' adaptation intention in the critical case of Marvdasht County in Iran -a case that exemplifies agricultural stakeholder decisionmaking in arid and drought-prone regions. We present a conceptual combination-model grounded in Protection Motivation Theory (PMT), employing a correlational survey among 256 farmer-stakeholders. First, we discuss the relative value of the combined model to understanding adaptation intentions. Second, we find that the factors that represent the externalities of farmers' behaviour need to be more thoroughly integrated in to adaptation planning. Third, we find that farmers' adaptation intention is directly affected by maladaptation, and indirectly by economic disincentives, barriers to belief in anthropogenic climate change and broader risk perceptions.

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“…Iranian garden building reached its heyday during the Safavid Era in Isfahan with the emergence of the concept of garden city [3]. This culmination, manifested in the abundant use of natural elements in urban development for visual landscaping, on the one hand, and improving comfort level, on the other [36,37], appropriately refers to Iranian gardens as "the auspicious marriage of beauty and usefulness".…”

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The Impact of Natural Elements on Environmental Comfort in the Iranian-Islamic Historical City of Isfahan

Habibi

Hoseini

Dehshti

et al. 2020

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Cities directly influence microclimates. As the urbanization expands, and the green spaces diminish, the heat islands begin to emerge. An old technique used during the past centuries—in both hot and dry climates of the central cities of Iran—was the moderation of microclimates via water and plants. With a diachronic approach to the study of the historical Chahar Bagh Street in Isfahan, this paper investigates the impact of the structural changes on its microclimate in three different scenarios, i.e., the street with its features during the Safavid Era (from 1501 to 1736); the street in its current status; and finally a probable critical condition resulting from complete elimination of natural elements from the environment. The mixed strategy used in this study relies on logical reasoning and software-assisted evaluation for comparing the three scenarios. The predicted mean vote (PMV) model was used for measuring thermal comfort. The results indicate that the evaluated comfort-providing area in the Safavid scenario is 7–17 times more favorable than the others. Moreover, the temperature in the contemporary era was found to be 1.5 degrees Celsius cooler than that of the critical status scenario.

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Balance between place attachment and migration based on subjective adaptive capacity in response to climate change: the case of Famenin County in Western Iran

Cited by 31 publications

References 72 publications

“Investigating the Mechanism of Place and Community Impact on Quality of Life of Rural-Urban Migrants”

“Investigating the Mechanism of Place and Community Impact on Quality of Life of Rural-Urban Migrants”

Understanding farmers’ climate adaptation intention in Iran: A protection-motivation extended model

The Impact of Natural Elements on Environmental Comfort in the Iranian-Islamic Historical City of Isfahan

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