Developing Small Cities by Promoting Village to Town and its Effects on Quality of Life for the Local Residents

Rezvani, M R; Hossein, Mansourian

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“…In the present study, 10 domains of QoL have been analysed. These domains are the environment and cleanliness, housing, education, health, personal well‐being, democratic and public participation, information and communication, employment, income and wealth and governance (after Rezvani & Mansourian, 2013, p. 154, and partially modified Figure 1). In this framework, place and time have been given special emphasis, as the satisfaction levels change with time and place.…”

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Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Chand

Thakur

2023

Int Social Sci J

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The aim of this work is to uncover factors influencing the quality of life in the study area. The idea is operationalized by collecting data at the household level on subjective and objective aspects of quality of life. For this study, data were collected from 18 sample villages using a stratified random sampling method. The villages were chosen to represent two distinct communities, namely the scheduled castes (SC) and the general population, spread across three altitudinal zones. In all, 436 households (about 20% of the total) were surveyed with respect to 10 domains of quality of life, namely environment and cleanliness, housing, education, health, personal well‐being, democratic and social participation, information and communication, employment, income and wealth and governance. To identify the key domains of quality of life, the principal components analysis (PCA) technique was applied. The findings support the idea that Asian predictors of satisfaction with life are similar to those of the Western world, but social and cultural backgrounds determine some culture‐oriented predictors. The PCA results show that governance is the key determinant of life satisfaction. This study reveals that due to higher levels of educational attainment, good income conditions, and greater participation in community affairs, the general community has reported higher quality of life satisfaction compared to the SC community population.

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Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Chand

Thakur

2023

Int Social Sci J

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“…The Russian Federation is also currently experiencing a demographic decline, with a particularly acute problem of a rural depopulation, which, however, is typical also for other countries (Liu et al, 2010); (Omariba & Boyle, 2010); (Rezvani & Mansourian, 2013). Simultaneously, the preservation of traditional rural settlements is of great importance for ensuring the country's food security, retaining territories, and preserving traditional culture.…”

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Rural Birthrate In The Altai Territory: Objective Factors And Territorial Loyalty

Volkova¹

2021

European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…A range of concepts and theories as well as empirical research based evidence could be used to ground the expected causal relationships between objective and subjective QoL factors (external and internal ones) and the ultimate individually perceived QoL. The access to public funds, services and local facilities approach (Albouy & Lue, 2015;Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Mordan, & Garcia-Sanchez, 2014), optimum centrality theory (Gupta, 2014), urban density and overloading, natural environments (Ietto, Salvo, & Cantasano, 2014;Swindal, 2013), social (dis)organization theory, subculture theory (Rezvani & Mansourian, 2011), residential location and community development theories (Kahn, 2013), etc., (McCrea, Marans, Stimson, & Western, 2011; could be mentioned. The choice of certain theories and conceptual justifications to support particular research would be subject to empirical data availability, respective structure of a statistical model and aims of certain research and statistical testing based modelling.…”

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Differentiate Patterns of Individually Perceived Quality of Life in Big Cities, Towns and Rural Areas

Rybakovas¹

2016

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Generally, it is agreed that QoL differs in diverse local places. Explaining these differences remains a complex and challenging problem. Scientific research has concluded that the impacts of socio-economic circumstances in local places (measured by social indicators) on subjectively perceived individual QoL are not direct, but complex, versatile and diverse. Objective differences of socio-economic factors in local places suggest that personal characteristics as well as other objective and subjective QoL factors, specific to individuals, could form some common patterns, able to disclose the differences in individually perceived QoL in different socio-economic conditions and diverse local places, e.g. cities, towns, or rural areas. The research aims at investigating differences in the patterns of individual subjectively perceived QoL in diverse local places. The differences of the considered local places are reasoned by the indicators of objective socio-economic conditions in cities, towns and rural areas. The tested presumption is that common patterns of individual subjectively perceived QoL differ, respecting objective socioeconomic factors in local places. The research concludes with the discovery and discussion of statistical regression models to predict individual subjectively perceived QoL in towns, big cities and rural areas. Residents' attitude to social environment, their abilities to deal with important problems in life, household total income and age are used as predictors to explain the differences of individual subjectively perceived QoL. The case of Lithuania is being investigated, using European Social Survey (round 6, 2013) data.

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Developing Small Cities by Promoting Village to Town and its Effects on Quality of Life for the Local Residents

Cited by 14 publications

References 16 publications

Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Essence of culture and nature: Governance as the emerging correlates of quality‐of‐life experiences in the communities of Himachal, India

Rural Birthrate In The Altai Territory: Objective Factors And Territorial Loyalty

Differentiate Patterns of Individually Perceived Quality of Life in Big Cities, Towns and Rural Areas

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