Geographical analysis of rural quality of life with emphasis on physical indicators (Case study: the villages of Anzali city)

Subject Areas : Regional Planning

Ashraf Hosseinzadeh ¹ , Mohammad Baset Ghoreyshi ² , Nasrollah MolaeiHashjin ³ , Teimour Amar ⁴

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

Received: 2020-06-15 Accepted : 2020-10-17 Published : 2022-07-23

Keywords: Quality of life, Rural settlements, Physical indicators, Physical Quality,

Abstract :

The concept of quality of life, which has been considered by researchers and thinkers in some scientific fields in recent decades, has different dimensions and represents the level of enjoyment and benefit from the material tools of individual and social well-being and also people's abilities in the scientific and social fields. Nowadays, quality of life as a key element in policy making and public policy review is discussed. The aim of this study is to analyze the quality of life in the villages of Anzali city with emphasis on physical indicators. In order to analyze the issue have been used the general population and housing census data of 2016 as well as field studies in the form of interviews, observations and completion of the questionnaire. Anzali city has 25 villages. The physical quality of all villages was examined using eight indicators and using the TOPSIS model, and the villages were ranked based on the continuous output of Tapsis and were classified into three levels. The relationship between the quality of life of the villages and the three variables of distance from the city center, distance from Anzali free trade-economic zone and the population of each village was calculated by Pearson correlation test. The relationship between the physical quality rank of the villages with the above three variables was 0.63, 0.62 and 0.74, respectively. The results indicated that in all three cases, the relationship between the variables and the physical quality of the villages is quite clear and demonstrates the inverse and intermediate upward relationship of the physical quality of the villages with two variables distance from the city center and free trade-economic zone. There is also a strong direct relationship between population size and physical quality of villages.

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