Analyzing Components Affecting of Nomadic Villagers’ Settlement Satisfaction with Quality of Residential Environment (Case Study: Settlement Regions of Dasht Bakan)
Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies
Amin Dehghani
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استادیار گروه جغرافیا، دانشگاه جیرفت، جیرفت، ایران
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Keywords: satisfaction, rural regions, environmental quality of life, Dasht Bakan,
Abstract :
Enhancing environmental quality and consequently life quality is one of the approaches created regarding reformation and completion of the issue of development. Therefore, paying attention to factors and criteria affecting the degree of satisfaction and dissatisfaction of residents can be effective on understanding the status quo of the residence quality. The present study is aimed at investigating variables affecting residents’ satisfaction with the environmental quality of life from the perspectives of four settlement towns in Dasht Bakan in Fars Province. The study is applied and developmental in terms of objective, descriptive-analytical in terms of method, and quantitative in terms of the nature of data. The sample size was calculated as 384 participants using Cochrane formula. To analyze data obtained from the field study, two descriptive and inferential statistics (including t-test, multivariate regression, and Duncan’s test) were used. Findings of the research indicate that there is a significant correlation of variables of gender, marital status, age, education, and income with satisfaction with environmental quality of life. In addition, using the results of regression analysis, variables of age, education, income, and distance from the center of the township, and household dimension explains about 56% of variations of participants’ satisfaction with residential quality. In addition, the results of Duncan’s test indicated that Igdar and Safikhani Settlements were at the highest level and the lowest level respectively in Ardkapan Settlement in terms of villagers’ satisfaction with their own residential environments.
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