Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm’s current locations, so that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact ...

conflagration of forests and rangelands is one of the most frequent events in iran. it is regarded as one of the most important parts of land degradation that occurred due to range destruction and desertification. this study was conducted in boroujerd, lorestan province in west of iran in 2013 to determine the fire risk model. the data prepared for the study area involved the vegetation types, ...

most the agricultural products incur plenty of wastages in iran due to lack of suitable accessible markets, therefore it is understood that establishing small scale industries, specially processing industries would be a suitable way for diminishing agricultural wastes and thus promoting its development. the goal of this research was to determine the spatial factors affecting the location alloca...

fluoride in drinking water has a profound effect on teeth. since drinking water is an important source of fluoride, the evaluation of the fluoride content of water resources is necessary. temporal variations and spatial distribution of fluoride in drinking water of some selected parts of kurdistan province, iran, have been studied using geographic information system (gis) techniques. thus, 40 v...

one of the natural hazards in mountainous areas, which always cause great losses of life and financial damages, is the avalanche fall. since, survey the avalanche-prone areas for prevention the probable damages is considerably important, especially when the avalanche paths affect the residential areas or roads. in this research, based on local information, one of the avalanche paths in the chah...

The study was conducted with the objective of mapping landscape cover of Nechsar National park in Ethiopia to produce spatially accurate and timely information on land use and changing pattern. Monitoring provides the planners and decision-makers with required information about the current state of its development and the nature of changes that have occurred. Remote sensing and Geographical Inf...