One of the types of water erosion and land degradation which causes imbalance in the area of natural resources and agricultural land and gives heavy losses, is the gully erosion phenomenon. To control this phenomenon, It is important to understand the influence factors on the geometry specification. Land degradation, a broken ecological balance of the land and landscape and risk of falling at b...

Introduction Land-use planning has three subcategories: allocation, politics and economics. In general, allocation is the interaction between land proportion (supply) and the area required (demand), in current condition of the region. On the other hand, politics is the spatial planning. The economic aspect of land use is dedicated to the fact that in the system of supply and demand in order ...

Today, as the focus of watershed planning and management for sustainable development in many of the issues. Ecological watersheds can be evaluated and ranked them according to various ecological criteria for the watershed, one of the important steps in the planning and management of watersheds. Since the cost of watershed management projects and heavy construction project budget is limited, it ...

Presently, significant growth of ecotourism is due to its special place in scientific and economic communities as well as the positive impact on environmental attitudes, sustainable development and revenue. The aims of this study are to develop a method based on field studies and questionnaire, to evaluate the ecotourism development potential in Abbas Abad wildlife refuge. According to field su...

In this research, to locate and prioritize suitable areas for flood spreading in Mashhad plain, 10 criteria were used including land use, slope, alluvium thickness, distance to well, distance to subterranean, distance from the village, water table drawdown, permeability coefficient, electrical conductivity, and drainage density. Weighting process was done by Analytic Network Process (ANP) and f...

Sustainable development is a comprehensive approach to improve Human life quality to meet economical, social and environmental needs of anthropological residents. When sustainable development is achieved an overlapping is created between ecological, economical and social classes. The most principle goal for this research is to determine sustainability criteria and indices and to measure sustain...