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The Effect of Village Councils on Environmental Degradation

Dehghani, Vahid | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 53997 (44)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Management and Economics
  6. Advisor(s): Vesal, Mohammad
  7. Abstract:
  8. Destruction of green lands, especially forests, is one of the most common forms of environmental degradation. Meanwhile, political institutions can play an important role in protecting or destroying the environment, especially forests. The creation of town and village councils as a change in political institutions and decentralization can have an impact on the environment. Land use change, implementation of development projects and the task of overseeing the implementation of environmental protection laws are among the duties and powers of councils that affect the coverage of various areas. At different eras, town and village councils’ elections have been annulled or dissolved in a constituency for a variety of reasons; this issue provides an opportunity to examine the effect of the existence of the council on vegetation by taking advantage of the change in the situation of the villages in terms of having and not having a council. For this purpose, in this study, the census data of 85 and 90 years of the Statistics Center have been used to find the status of the councils and the remote sensing data of Modis and Landsat 5 and 7 satellites have been used to calculate the area of different land cover. Estimates show that with a one percent increase in the number of permanent villages with councils in each village, on average, an area of approximately 0.21 square kilometers of forest cover per village is reduced
  9. Keywords:
  10. Vegetation ; Remote Sensing Data ; Satellite Data ; Election ; Political Institutions ; Town and Village Councils ; Environmental Degradation

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