The practical application of sustainable development concepts in groundwater resource management will be complex. The past studies indicate long-term aim of integration to develop the spatial decision support system (SDSS), which is devoted to help decision makers in spatial problems. The essence of this paper is to present a strategy of the groundwater potential with integrating geographical i...

Alternative land use zoning scenarios provide guidance for sustainable land use controls. This study focused on an ecologically vulnerable catchment on the Loess Plateau in China, proposed a novel land use zoning model, and generated alternative zoning solutions to satisfy the various requirements of land use stakeholders and managers. This model combined multiple zoning objectives, i.e., maxim...

the traditional fuzzy operators, such as t-norms, t-conorms and averaging operators have been used for soil suitability evaluation to aggregate criteria as an overall suitability index. however, such operators do not account for the degree of compensation common to human aggregation criteria, especially in the presence of conflicting criteria. fuzzy integrals are powerful and flexible aggregati...

This paper reports about uncertainty in defining boundaries, which assume an institutional significance when transposed in planning prescription. Every discipline involved in environmental planning uses different approaches to represent its own vision of reality. Geological sciences or hydraulics evaluate risks by consistent mathematical models which are relevantly different to non linear model...

This study mapped out the agricultural land suitability in Zaria using Geospatial Techniques (GT) with a view to highlight areas of improvement production enhance food security. The Agricultural Land Suitability (ALS) is fitness specific crop. ALS selects that best suits and supports crop optimal yield, by matching qualities crop’s requirements; hence increasing productivity per unit at minimum...

5 Calibration and validation of the Land Use Scanner allocation algorithms The Land Use Scanner is a spatial model that simulates future land use. Since its development in 1997, it has been applied in many policy-related land-use projects. In 2005, a completely revised version became available. In this version, land use can be modelled on a reduced scale, the smallest resolution now being 100 m...

Assessing the suitability of urban and agricultural land is essential for planning sustainable systems. The main objective this study to evaluate in Ioannina plain (western Greece) concerning soil contents two potentially toxic elements, cadmium (Cd) cobalt (Co). Geochemical spatial analysis methods were applied assess distribution Cd Co identify their origin. primary anthropogenic sources tops...