Comparative Evaluation of the Quality of Life of Nomads in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province (Case Study: Koohrang City)

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Asghar Norouzi ¹ , Mina Mohammadizadeh ²

1 - Assistant Prof. Department of Geography, Payame Noor University.Tehran.Iran
2 - M.A. in Geography, Payame Noor University. Tehran.Iran

Received: 2018-06-20 Accepted : 2019-01-27 Published : 2020-03-20

Keywords: quality of life, Settled Nomads, Not-settled Nomads, Koohrang City,

Abstract :

The nomadic community is the country's third human society (urban, rural, nomadic), which has been strongly influenced by the political, economic and social developments of the society in the century recent. A group of this community has been settled and a group has chosen the continuation of nomads. It is very important to examine the difference in living conditions of both groups in order to strengthen the idea of settlement or migration. One of the important aspects in this regard is quality of life, which has recently been considered by researchers, planners and governments as one of the important issues. However, less attention has been paid to the nomadic community and the scientific research carried out in this area is more limited. In this study, comparative evaluation of quality of life of settled and not-settled nomads of Koohrang city has been investigated. A sample of 270 people consisted of 153settled households and 117not-settled households. The results showed that there is a significant difference between the two settled and not-settled communities in terms ofsocial and physical, environmental and economic dimensions, with respect to the means and the levels of significance.Although there was not great significant difference between the two communities in terms of their meaneconomic dimension, but with significance level (less than 0.05), it was statistically significant.However, the nomads settled in all aspects of the quality of life are in a better position than the not-settlednomads. Also, the greatest difference was observed between the two nomadic communities in the environmental dimension.

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