Evaluation of ecological potential in Dayer Nakhiloo National Park through weighted linear combination method

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fatemeh  Razavian ¹ (استادیار گروه محیط زیست دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد پرند)
بهنوش  KHoshmanesh ² (استادیار گروه محیط زیست دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد پرند)

Received: 2016-08-26 Accepted : 2016-08-26 Published : 2014-12-22

Keywords: recreation, Conservation, Assessment, Weighted, National Park,

Abstract :

The ecological potential assessment of land as one of the guidelines for moving towards sustainable developmentis looking for assessing land latent capacity with standards and preplanned criteria. Identifying and assessing theecological characteristics of each region are, guidelines for a development in tune with nature. And in this way,the nature itself clarifies acceptable developmental capacity. In this study, Dayer Nakhiloo national marine parkwhich covers an area of 202.34 square kilometers in the East of Bushehr has been selected and afteridentification of environmental resources and map preparation by using multi criteria decision making methodsand taking advantage of the geographical information system (GIS), overlaying maps, appropriate areas forintensive and extensive recreation were identified. Then, according to the economic development of the regionand due to the sensitive and protected zones within the study area, final zoning was made. The results haveshown about 21.47% of the area (43.3 square kilometers) is appropriate for protection and 67.52 percent (136.16km2) is suitable for extensive recreation zone, besides about 11 percent (including 22.19 sq km) is dedicated tointensive recreations.