the present study was carried out in kharkeh research station, kurdestan province, western iran to investigate the effects of the change in land use on the degradation of mol-lisols, their organic carbon content, clay mineralogy and k+ status. the study area was partly under cultivation (for over 40 years) and partly preserved as rangelands. the re-sults revealed that mollisols are the dominant...

large scale land use/cover changes and habitat fragmentation is a major factor in the distribution and functioning of ecosystems. for analysis the relationship between land use changes and their impacts on biodiversity, land cover and land use information is needed at different scales. the main goal of this study was to quantify the land use/ cover changes in arasbaran biosphere reserve, northw...

Traditional grazing grounds near Amboseli National Park (Kenya) are rapidly converted to cropland – a process that closes important wildlife corridors. We explore the scope for introducing a “payments for ecosystem services” scheme to compensate pastoralists for spillover benefits associated with forms of land use that are compatible with wildlife conservation. Our results indicate that such a ...

land use change is driven by interaction in space and time between humans and the environment that can be captured by computer simulation models (veldkamp and verburg, 2004). in the last few decades, land use change models have played an important role in understanding the causes, mechanisms and consequences of land use dynamics. sleuth is an open source cellular automata based land use change ...

green belt is defined as a narrow green area surrounding an urban area. shiraz green belt has been developed through 9 projects with a variety of purposes since 2005. the development of green belt is being considered in a number of iranian cities, and therefore, investigation of shiraz green belt’s purposes and challenges could contribute to an appropriate planning by decision makers. the main ...

in recent years, changes in catchments water balance due to land use management have become the main concern of water resources authorities in iran. due to rapid population growth and land use changes, especially construction of taleghan dam, taleghan catchment has undergone rapid changes such as urban development, declining of rangelands, and deterioration of environment and erosion of soil re...

planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. this was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. iran's supreme council for planning and architecture, determined standards per ...

abstract:â green spaces, especially urban gardens have been a subject of study in many countries for a long time, but the subject has been mostly overlooked in iran. therefore, this study tries to analyze the changes in land use and how we can protect green spaces (gardens) in jahrom in line with sustainable development in 1996-2006. the data in this study were collected through local investiga...