Evaluation of ecological capability of Babolrood basin for agriculture land use using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)

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‌امید Karami ¹ , S.M Hoseini nasr ² , حمید Jalilvand ³ , M.H Miryaghubzadeh ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکترای مهندسی منابع طبیعی، علوم جنگل، دانشکده منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی ساری، ساری، ایران
2 - استادیار دانشکده منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی ساری، ساری، ایران
3 - دانشیار دانشکده منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی ساری، ساری، ایران
4 - دانشجوی دکترای آبخیزداری، دانشکده منابع طبیعی، دانشگاه علوم کشاورزی و منابع طبیعی ساری، ساری، ایران

Received: 2012-05-08 Accepted : 2014-02-21 Published : 2014-05-22

Keywords: Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), agriculture, Weighted linear combination (WLC), Babolrood,

Abstract :

Today, agriculture is one of the main economic sections of the country and economic growth is not possible without agricultural growth. Since agricultural land use requires specific environmental conditions, researchers and experts have paid special attention to the land use evaluation for rational development of agricultural and determination of suitable area for agriculture is very important. Regarding the importance of subject, in this study suitable area for agricultural land use in Babolrood Basin-Mazandaran province evaluated. Thus, in first step, criteria and sub-criteria determined. Then by using analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and with help of expert's knowledge, criteria and sub-criteria weighted, then the weights integrated with related maps using weighted linear combination technique in GIS environment and final map of agriculture capability provided. Results showed that 3.57 percent of the study area has first-class potential, 8.2, 16.19, and 2.51 percent of the study area has 2, 3 and 4 class's capability for agriculture respectively. Also 69.53 percent of the basin is unsuitable for agriculture.

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