Mona Sabourjanati; Iman Ghalandarian
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Empowerment has always been considered as one of the primary directions for improving the quality of life in local communities, and it may be accomplished in a variety of ways depending on the circumstances. Some disadvantaged urban areas with a significant need for empowerment offer the pristine natural ...
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Empowerment has always been considered as one of the primary directions for improving the quality of life in local communities, and it may be accomplished in a variety of ways depending on the circumstances. Some disadvantaged urban areas with a significant need for empowerment offer the pristine natural potential for ecotourism. Ecotourism not only provides the proper quality of the environment for tourists, but also offers the greatest protection in the host society's different social, economic, cultural, and environmental domains. In this study, the meta-combination approach is used to combine the two ideas of empowerment and ecotourism, resulting in a set of benefits for empowering communities and the framework of Empowering Urban Ecotourism and its process and criteria had been explained by the relationship between, Empowering and Urban Ecotourism By means of using the Delphi method. The results of the research show that Empowerment ecotourism has social, cultural, economic, political, Psychology-perceptual, and, environmental domains. This approach follows step-by-step individual empowerment, increasing the ability to participate, social development and social effectiveness, social empowerment of the host communities.
Shilan Heydarmanesh; Hamid Saberi; Mehri Azani; Amir Gandomkar
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The reduction of urban poverty in Abadan city will not be realized without the approach of empowerment and recognition of opportunities and threats of this path in the future. The purpose of this research is to identify the strategic drivers for basic planning to empower the poor residents of the inefficient ...
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The reduction of urban poverty in Abadan city will not be realized without the approach of empowerment and recognition of opportunities and threats of this path in the future. The purpose of this research is to identify the strategic drivers for basic planning to empower the poor residents of the inefficient oil fields of Shahr Abadan in 2041. The research method is strategic foresight. The techniques and software used are: environmental survey, analysis Cross effects, expert opinions, Micmac software. The variables in economic and social factors sectors have had the greatest impact on the formation system of poverty empowerment in the depressed areas of Abadan city, and the physical and managerial dimensions have had the least impact. Strategic drivers include improving the human capital of the poor, formulating national strategies to reduce urban poverty, institutionalizing social participation, reducing inflation, reducing corruption, government investment in poverty reduction, and investment in housing.
Gholamreza Eskandarian; Seyed Ahmad Firouzabadi
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The issue of informal settlement management has been mentioned in the country's development document as a development issue. Various approaches have been taken to manage this phenomenon in the world that the empowerment approach is one of the latest. This approach has been experienced in Iran since the ...
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The issue of informal settlement management has been mentioned in the country's development document as a development issue. Various approaches have been taken to manage this phenomenon in the world that the empowerment approach is one of the latest. This approach has been experienced in Iran since the late 1370s, but assessments show that the expected results were not achieved. This result raised the question for the present study whether the empowerment approach was effective in organizing informal settlements? In this study, an attempt was made to answer this question based on the opinions of experts. This research is a qualitative study and follows the method of GroundedTheory. Preliminary findings show that in order to identify the role of the empowerment approach, the roots of the problem must first be identified. As the questions and study process became more precise, the concept of migration was used as a central phenomenon and the basis for the development of the research model. Findings show that the roots of informal settlement can be traced to micro, intermediate and macro levels. Therefore, problem management strategies must be seen simultaneously at different levels. Separation of macro-origin, intermediate-destination and micro-destination strategies has been one of the research findings. The research confirmed that the empowerment approach is useful for dealing with the informal settlement phenomenon, which is applicable at the micro-destination level.
