sadegheh salehe; aliasghar ferozjaian; fatemeh gholamrezazadeh
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Today, addressing environmental issues as well as planning for environmental protection for creating a suitable environment for human life, has become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. This resulted in confronting and problem solving environmental policy issues to site on the ...
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Today, addressing environmental issues as well as planning for environmental protection for creating a suitable environment for human life, has become one of the main concerns of governments around the world. This resulted in confronting and problem solving environmental policy issues to site on the agenda of governments. The Islamic Republic of Iran has considered the environmental issues in the form of Five-Year Programs for Economic, Social and Cultural Development plans. The main questions of this study are as follows: A. what is the place of environment in strategic national development plans of the Islamic Republic of Iran? B. What kind of environmental discourse has dominated on the five-year development programs? This study has utilized documentary method. The results of the study show that the first and third Development Program were affected by discourse of environmentalism and in the fourth and fifth ones, development discourse of ecosystem were dominant. The result also indicates that environmental justice was not considered in the Five-Year Economic Development Plans. The paper ended up with the suggestion that regarding ecosystem discourse as well as environmental justice, there is a critical need for setting up National Environmental Policy.
Sadegh Salehi; gholamreza Choshfar
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The issue of recycling is one of the issues that have concerned urban management today. Among various social groups, women have a special place in the discussions of recycling and household waste recycling. In this regard, understanding women’s attitudes towards waste recycling is necessary for ...
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The issue of recycling is one of the issues that have concerned urban management today. Among various social groups, women have a special place in the discussions of recycling and household waste recycling. In this regard, understanding women’s attitudes towards waste recycling is necessary for the management of household waste. Thus, the current study aims to investigate women’s attitudes towards household recycling and factors affecting them. The research, which used survey method, was conducted in urban areas of Mazandaran province on a sample of 471 urban housewives. The instrument for data collection was researcher-made questionnaire, the validity and reliability of which were verified. The research results showed that the new environmental paradigm has a significant role in shaping positive environmental attitudes towards household waste recycling management. Moreover, there was a positive and significant relationship between environmental concerns, level of education, and family socioeconomic status with attitudes towards recycling. In addition to scientific and theoretical applications, the findings of this research can be used by urban environmental authorities, managers, and planners.
