land use planning for tourism development using geographical information systems (gis) (case study: taleghan watershed, khodkavand sub-chatchment)

Land use planning for land management using the geographic information system (GIS) in the Loumir watershed of Guilan province in northern Iran

Land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. It is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS). To this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...

Urban land-use planning using Geographical Information System and Analytical Hierarchy Process: Case study Dhaka city

Organizing Coastal Land Use for Urban Tourism Development (Case Study: Sorkhrood)

Planning for land, as the main element of the environment and the most basic pillar of a settlement, for being the background of a life with health, comfort and satisfaction of the inhabitants, is very important. Tourism with a wide range of environmental, economic, social and physical impacts is one of the factors affecting the pattern of land use which, depending on the region's ability to at...

GIS based land use planning and watershed monitoring as tools for sustainable development

The development of GIS based methodologies supports a program for monitoring the territorial dynamics that are occurring in the Estorãos rural watershed (NW Portugal). GIS integrates spatial databases from different research and development projects, with the purpose of understanding: (i) the relationships between land use processes and changes, and environmental management policies; (ii) the e...

Comparison of Tourism Placement and Development Models from Land Use Planning perspective in Zagros Forests Case Study: Javanrud County

While in recent years, due to numerous reasons, the amount of travel and tourism has increased, the amount of problems caused by this activity is also considered by managers. By using presence points of tourists in Javanrud County, Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Random Forest (RF) models, the conditions of establishment of tourists from the aspect of land use planning was investigated. In...

effects of land use changes on flood characteristics using hec-hms model (case study: taleghan watershed)

land use change is one of the main factors in the process of changing the regime of flood in watersheds. taleghan watershed has been subjected to many land use changes over years, which probably effects on flood characteristics of taleghan river. in present study the effects of land use change on some parameters including peak flow, volume and flood base time, in part of taleghan basin, was inv...