Considering the Effective Factors on Land Use Changes in the Villages Around Metropolises (Case Study: City Of Rasht, Khomam Rural)

Reza Sharami,Masoud Mahdavi,Seyyed Moshiri,Parviz Kardavani

doi:10.12944/cwe.9.2.34

Abstract

Land use in villages around metropolises, especially in fertile areas such as Guilan plain, is experiencing basic changes. Mutual dependence between the metropolis and its surrounding villages will change rural perspective to urban one and it leads to change rural functions and structures. This review is in the area of Rasht metropolis and about Khomam rural land use changes during 19662013. In this study, research method is descriptive analytical, the data in use is observed through documents and evidences (the oldest and newest map of Khomam rural), and questionnaires and interviews are collected. Research results indicate a significant change in agricultural and horticultural lands and an increase in constructed lands and roadways. This research has tested different indices in order to considering and determining effective factors on land use change. According to research founding, 21 factors have the most effects on agricultural and horticultural land use respectively and 4 factors have the most effects on land use in order to staying unchanged, respectively.

Highlights

The pattern of land use leading in villages has being provided by various guidelines and within their framework of physical development
Researchers noted that industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development of China are the four human motive forces that have caused the land use changes in Kunshan area(Long, Tang et al 2007).Japan has provided a successful sample of exact spatial planning and determination of a variety of lands use in Asia
The process of demographic developments and land use in Khomam rural Parallel to the drastic increase of Rasht metropolis population (Table 1) Khomam rural has faced the increase of population despite the external migration. (Table 2) Such changes in the context of the residing population in Khomam rural are the field of changes in physical and space structure of the village

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Introduction

The pattern of land use leading in villages has being provided by various guidelines and within their framework of physical development. The rapid rate of urban development of Rasht metropolis and the focus of a variety of services in the area has caused vast changes in the pattern of land use of its surrounding villages. This will be carried out faster especially about the villages which have a central role and are affective.For example, in Khomam rural (one of the villages around Rasht metropolis) from 1966 to 2013, the way and the kind of lands exploitation has been changed.

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