Town and Country Planning

Town and Country Planning

Modeling the Ecological Capability for Agricultural and Rangeland Land Use Using Fuzzy AHP in GIS Environment (Case study: Marvdasht County)

Authors
Seyed Hassan Motiee Langroudi
Hossien Nasiri
Ali Azizi
Abollfazle Mostafaie
10.22059/jtcp.2012.28792
Abstract
Reasonable exploitation from natural resources and organizing land use based on its ecological potentials, has an important role in the environmental management and preventing environmental degradation and having a sustainable development. Marvdasht town has been faced with immigration and the result of that is increasing population and changing land use. Regarding the climate and natural properties of the region especially the existence of an alluvial plain and permanent river, this region has great potentials for development. Therefore, for better organizing the land and agricultural activities, the ecological potential of the region and the land suitability of agricultural activities were considered to help sustainable development Planners
This study for better performing the ecological model of Dr. Makhdoum in which the Weight and importance of parameters are not considered, has used the Fuzzy AHP and GIS and has identified and determined the suitable areas for agricultural activities within the area of Marvdasht County. The results of doing the Makhdoum ecological potential model with Fuzzy logic in Marvdasht County have showed the existence of all the seven categories of the model in the studied area. Also the results from the sensitivity analysis of the study shows that fuzzy base approaches can be used for increasing the accuracy in determining the land use of agricultural areas.
Keywords
Agricultural and rangeland ecological Model
Fuzzy logic
Geographic Information System
land use planning
Marvdasht.
Town and Country Planning
Volume 4, Issue 6 - Serial Number 1159615
Spring & Summer
April 2012
Pages 125-148