Saeid Maleki; Reza Ahmadi; Sajad Monfared; Mohammad Matougi
Abstract
Many developing countries are over-concentrated in a few urban areas. Such a situation leads to many problems. In this countries, the quality of people's is experiencing huge regional inequalities which are increasing rapidly in many cases. Environmental problems are one of the most fundamental issues ...
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Many developing countries are over-concentrated in a few urban areas. Such a situation leads to many problems. In this countries, the quality of people's is experiencing huge regional inequalities which are increasing rapidly in many cases. Environmental problems are one of the most fundamental issues in modern cities and are the result of conflict and confrontation with the natural environment. The result of this process will be the imbalance and incompatibility between man and nature and the collapse of the ecosystem relationship. The purpose of this research is to identify the variables of sustainable environmental development and assessment of sustainability in the cities of Khuzestan province. This is an applied and descriptive- analytical method research. The results of the research show that the cities of Izeh, Dezful, Andimeshk,Lali and MasjedSoleiman are at a higher level than other cities in terms of environmental development in khuzestan province. Also, the results of statistical tests indicate the superiority of the North of province to its south in terms of environmental development. However, there is no sensible difference between the east and west of the province despite the relative superiority of the east of the province to the west. The results of the Pearson correlation coefficient show that there is no meaningfulcorrelation between environmental development and population size of the cities and their Urbanization rate. This means that, there is no meaningful relationship between population size and urbanization rate with environmental development.
