land and resource developoment suitability is usually achieved by landscape capability analysis. but using land capability analysis in planning process is often restricted by budget and time limitations. a simple yet effective capability analysis method is hence required, that can furnish 'planners reliable land zonning with the least data and time requirement. the optimum integration meth...

Land managers are increasingly faced with complex decisions requiring the consideration of tradeoffs between multiple, non-commensurable objectives. Such decisions have profound effects on the financial, social and environmental sustainability of land use systems. One approach to assisting land managers with these decisions has been the development of computer-based decision support systems (DS...

Farmland preservation is a national issue in modern China. Most studies have focused on farmland preservation policies in the agricultural, commercial and financial industries but have devoted relatively little attention to land use planning. Land use planning is crucial for farmland preservation. This paper selected Dachang County, a typical rural county bordering Beijing, as the study area an...

analyzing the process of land use and cover changes during long periods of time and predicting the future changes is highly important and useful for the land use managers. in this study, the land use maps in the ardabil plain in north-west part of iran for four periods (1989, 1998, 2009 and 2013) are extracted and analyzed through remote sensing technique, using the land-sat satellite images. t...

this research has been conducted with the aim of analyzing the spatial distribution of existing cultural land use in district 3 of tehran municipality and proposal for new site selection for cultural land use in this district. after studying previous researches on the issues of land use and site selection, 13 indicators for locating cultural land use were identified then by using distance mappi...