Explaining the effects of natural environment on the diversity of economic activities in the villages around Bandar Anzali Wetland

Subject Areas : Environmental hazards and human settlements

behzad majidi ¹ , Mohammad baset Qoreishi ² , Teimour Amar ³ , Nasrollah Molaei hashtjin ⁴ , Parviz Rezaei ⁵

1 - PhD in Geography and Rural Planning,, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Geography, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
4 - Professor, Department of Geography, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
5 - Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

Received: 2020-10-25 Accepted : 2021-05-29 Published : 2022-08-23

Keywords: Economic Development, Wetlands, environmental diversity,

Abstract :

Today, development as a process is the most important issue of countries, especially developing countries, the study and recognition of rural areas and analysis of their capabilities and bottlenecks in the rural development planning process is very important. Wetlands have undeniable ecological, economic, recreational and aesthetic values for human, animal and plant communities. While emphasizing that economic change in rural areas is also a function of general conditions at the macro level such as national and regional economy, but the rate of acceptance of these changes in different places and with varying speeds. The present study was conducted assuming that the wetland has a significant share in the economy of its surrounding villages and a sample population including 6 villages from Sumeh Sara city and 9 villages from Bandar Anzali city that are located on the edge of the wetland have been selected. In this study, first, the situation of the studied villages is obtained based on existing documents and field studies, and then the developments related to environmental conditions and quality of life according to the documentary and field findings are analyzed by statistical tests in SPSS software. The results of studies on the impact of the existence of Anzali Wetland as a natural phenomenon in the economic diversity of the village indicate that wetland-related jobs in all villages along the wetland, in addition to agriculture, which supplies water from the wetland, including fishing, Hunting, tourism and handicrafts.

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