STRUCTURE OF CARTOGRAPHIC DATABASE FOR SOLVING SARATOV REGION MUNICIPAL DISTRICTS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDEX ASSESMENT TASKS

Assesment of Air Pollution Tolerance Index of Higher Plants Suitable for Green Belt Development in East of Esfahan City, Iran

Development of a green belt with suitable plant species around the source of emission can mitigate the atmospheric contamination. Selection of such plant species are required to combat air pollution based on their tolerance level. Present study was undertaken to evaluate the tolerance level of higher plants in East of Esfahan city, Iran, during 2011 in terms of assessing Air Pollution Tolerance...

GUIDELINES FOR MUNICIPAL POLICYMAKING ON URBAN AGRICULTURE Urban Agriculture: A Tool for Sustainable Municipal Development

Urban agriculture (UA) is practiced inside (intraurban) or on the outskirts (periurban) of a town or a city. While it focuses on raising food and animal crops, it includes recycling household waste and wastewater for agricultural purposes, the processing and distribution of different food and non-food products using human and material resources, products, and services that are found in the same...

Ranking Sustainability of Urban Districts through Factor and Cluster Analyses, Case Study: Municipal Districts of Isfahan

ICT systems supporting sustainable operation and development of municipal waterworks

In the paper a concept of an ICT system for complex management of whole communal waterworks is presented. The ICT system called MOSKAN consists of several program modules integrated by a GIS platform. The system is being developed by the Systems Research Institute (IBS PAN) in Warsaw and partially tested in some Polish waterworks. Keywords—waterworks management, computer aided decisions making ...

Codification of Sustainable Development Indicators in New Town of Iran: A Practical Municipal Level Approach

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the descriptio...