SWOT

Subject Areas : environmental management

Akramolmolook  Lahijanian ¹ ()
Shadi  Sheabeygi ² ()

Received: 2007-06-26 Accepted : 2007-07-23 Published : 2011-04-03

Keywords: Environment, Ecotorism, leisure time, landscape and environment beau,

Abstract :

Iranian cities developments show the fact that however their quantitative development was parallel with city superficial development and increasing of construction with urban output, this development in qualitative point of view was accompanied with many challenges. Semnan is one example of these kinds of cities which contains considerable natural and under structures green environment that has considerable qualitative improvement effect on the city. According to urban green spaces importance, this research considers landscape and environment beautification plans of Park 8 Shahrivar of Semnan measuring 5 hectares. The questionnaire is designed according Likert scale with 5 scores. The aims of this research were based on studying landscape and environment beautification plans in urban parks for citizens, existing abnormalities and irregularities in parks, resulted from non appropriate design of park spaces alongside providing appropriate conditions in Park 8 Shahrivar for users and suitable criteria in order to qualitative improvement of Semnan parks. Statistic society of this research, based on census of 2006, is included all citizens of Semnan amounted to 126780 persons and the studied sample is 170 persons of this society. This research has 2 hypotheses in mind: the hypothesis 1” landscape and environment beautification plans in urban parks can attract and increase users’ numbers” confirmed by calculating percentage abundance and Pierson test calculation and considerable different between questions. Hypothesis 2 “access to beautiful and green environment can increase citizens’ life quality and the society output” confirmed by calculating percentage abundance and Pierson test calculation and considerable different between questions.