Economy of space and regional inequalities Case Study: Ardabil Province Rahim sarvarh

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

Rahim Sarvar ¹ , Ali Eshghi Chaharborj ² , Saeede Alavi ³

1 - استاد گروه جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، واحد علوم تحقیقات، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی، اردبیل، ایران
3 - دانشجوی دکتری جغرافیا و برنامه ریزی شهری، دانشگاه محقق اردبیلی، اردبیل، ایران

Received: 2015-11-14 Accepted : 2017-02-18 Published : 2017-01-20

Keywords: Employment, TOPSIS, Economic, Regional inequalities, Economic potential,

Abstract :

Identifying opportunities and determining the status of civil society, is considered as the first step in the process of regional development and reducing inequality for this society. Assessing the level of regional inequality and knowledge of the rate enjoyment different areas could be an effective step in planning. The dimensions of inequality in different spheres of economic, cultural, social and environmental are searchable. Among the multiple dimensions of inequality, the economic dimension has special importance due to having a close relationship with employment in reducing poverty and inequality. One of the most important economic and social issues is the employment at the present time which plays a key role in rural-urban migration and regional balance. The purpose of this study is to measure regional disparities of Townships of Aedebil province economically.The research method is descriptive- analytic. Two components of the structure of employment and economic potential are selected among 26 indicators to measure regional disparities in terms of economic indicators. The population consisted of 10 city of Ardabil province is based on 1390 statistics. In this study, Shannon entropy model and TOPSIS model were used to analyze the collected data. The results of the research show that the city of Ardabil located in the first rank with rate Topsis 0/814 and Sareyn, Namin and germi Townships located in the last rank with rate topsis 0/252, 0/240, and 0/216, respectively. Based on the rate TOPSIS the difference between Ardabil with germi is 0/598 that this is a sign of regional inequality among the cities of Ardabil Province.

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