Document Type : scientific-research article
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1 Professor, Department of Geography, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Abstract
Access to national and regional development is a great aspiration of every society, which requires a precise understanding of the country's and society's status to plan future actions towards sustainable development. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between regional development and competitiveness in border townships of West Azarbaijan. The present research method is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-analytical in terms of nature. Library and field methods were used to collect research data. The collected data has been analyzed quantitatively through EXCEL, OPA, GIS, and Meta-SWOT software. CoCoSo multi-indicator decision-making model was used to rank border townships, the K-Means Cluster method was used to cluster border townships, and Meta-SWOT was used to check regional competitiveness. The results of this research indicate that according to the distribution of integrated indicators in West Azarbaijan province, this province follows the core-periphery model. So the distribution of facilities and services, instead of being fairly distributed at the province level and between the border townships, has been unfairly distributed, and most of the services have been distributed in Urmia township and Khoi township in the next rank. Also, the state of regional competitiveness shows that Urmia township is far away from other border townships in two differentiating dimensions in terms of resources and capabilities under the title of development and regional competitiveness. over time, with the continuation of this process, severe divergence will be created among the border townships, directly affecting the population distribution in the province, and causing the migration of residents in less-developed townships to other more-developed townships.
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