Journal of Urban Economics and Management

Nowadays, tourism industry, as one of the premium developing industries, plays an important role in the economy of countries and takes an active and effective part in improving cultural-social and environmental structure of the host country. Considering the increasing importance of tourism in the development of communities, the current research intends to make an investigation into the effect(s) of tourism on economic-environmental development of the city through the lens of the citizens and the officials of the city of Babolsar. The current research is applied, purpose-wise, and is descriptive, correlational, and upon surveying, method-wise. The data has been collected via documents and library sources as well as the researcher-developed questionnaire, observations, and interviews with related organizations and the heads of the households in the city of Babolsar. Upon Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Kendall-b tests, the results show that tourism has significant effects on economy and in addition to employment and income-providing, has resulted in increase in prices and property speculation. Environmentally, tourism has decreased farmlands, changing them into buildings, and increased services, pollution, ecology-destruction, and has made it easier to have access to cities. Thus, via proper planning and efficient utilization of tourists entry, it is possible to improve economy of the city, resulting in improvement in the city’s environment.

In the present age, almost the half of the world’s population live in the urban areas. In this condition, the role of cities and urban areas directly and urban development and construction indirectly, and their contribution in current instability have attracted the Serious attention of Scientific circles and policy makers. It is recommended that cities should be viewed as a Locus to solve global problems and achieve sustainable development, should be considered and used.

The main purpose of this study is to assess the socio-environmental behaviors and cognition the impacts of social capital and its dimensions on the socio-environmental behaviors in sustainable urban development.

This article has been conducted with a quantitative approach and using the survey method. Through a structured questionnaire, survey data was collected and analyzed by SPSS software. The theoretical framework of this research comes from the theory of Bourdieu and new environmental paradigm.In this survey, environmental and social behaviors, has been measured in four parts of: features and circumstances, knowledge, attitudes and ecological behaviors.The results showed that between gender, socio-economic bases, marital status, and socio-environmental behaviors, there is a significant relationship. also the relation between cultural capital (Institutionalized dimension) and socio-environmental behaviors was confirmed.

Job satisfaction and individual and environmental factors affecting it, are the most important issues in the organizations because of their direct contact with human capital. Hence, evaluation the effect of individual and environmental factors on job satisfaction of employees in District 18 of Tehran municipality is the main purpose of this research. This is an applied research and data collection did through descriptive survey method. In order to collect primary data, a questionnaire package was used that included 34 questions in Likert scale. Validity of questionnaire was face validity and content validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to assess the reliability that was Equal to 0.881 for pre-test and 0.889 for post-test. The population of the study was all the staff of District 18 of Tehran municipality and 300 questionnaires were distributed among them by Stratified random manner. To do this research, two main hypotheses were developed and analyzed in two ways of descriptive and inferential statistics. In the descriptive analysis, the parameters of frequency, percentage, mean were used and to test the hypothesis of independence of the Chi-square test, Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used. The results show a significant positive correlation between environmental factors and job satisfaction there. This data shows that the average job satisfaction of employees is 3.48 and average satisfaction of individual factors and environmental Respectively is equal to 3.77 and 3.14. The results show that individual factors situation is quite adequate, so take action to improve the environment factors is a priority.

When the large urban projects (Mega Project) to be loaded on a national scale in a small town, you can see dramatic changes in the market for land and housing in urban settlements. This paper attempts to study the impact of presence and activity of Padideh Shandiz Tourism Company on land and housing market changes examined in 2009 to 2014 from the perspective of citizens. Regarding purpose, this research is applied. Data were collected via library, field study (questionnaire), and descriptive method was used for data analysis (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (factor analysis and one-sample t-test) were performed. The statistical population community, including families living in Shandiz City on the basis of the 2011 census, with a 10,428 population of 3056 households and is required sample size of 160 households was based on Cochran formula. The findings indicate that the direct effects caused by the presence and activities of Padideh Shandiz Tourism Company in the time interval studied, the statistic 43.6% of the biggest impacts on the land and housing market changes have had on the town. Also based on one sample t-test showed a significant difference between the mean and median of the theoretical (3) Shandiz City from the perspective of citizens that are substantially influence of these factors on land and housing market changes. According to the findings, strategies including attention to urban managements of land and housing market changes in the future, due to the low-income indigenous housing, prevention of social conflicts, provision of infrastructure, etc. have been proposed.