Zagros forest as a widest forests of Iran, has a special place on economical development and maintain the stability of water and soil. In order to apporopriate planning for this forest information about forest extend during past, present and future is necessary. The present research was conducted to determine the forest area reduction, during 1955 to 1997, Modeling possibility forest exten...

Landslide is one of the destructive phenomena of natural resources and threatens the sustainability of forest roads. The purpose of this study is to determine the zoning of land risk for the stability of forest roads using the process of analyzing the hierarchy in the GIS. The final zoning map of landslide hazard based on the combination of different maps and main criteria of topography, vegeta...

Forest structure consider the spatial arrangement of trees characteristics such as age, size, species, gender and so on is.This study aimed to investigate the structural diversity of three one-hectare stands in the gap making phase, were studied. For this purpose, three sample plots with a one hectare area were selected in Asalem beech stands which belonged to the structural features of the gap...

Vegetation in any landscape reflects its health condition. Monitoring land use change and land cover plays a key role in environmental planning and management. Mazandaran province has always been considered by tourists due to its high tourism potential and consequently the vegetation, especially the forest, has been damaged. In this study, vegetation Contiguity and integrity in Mazandaran using...

From the beginning of their lives, human beings have been constantly faced with geomorphic threats, and these risks have led to human and financial losses in human habitats, especially in cities and villages, for human societies. One of these risks is earthquakes. According to a report by the United Nations Planning Office in 2002, Iran ranked first among the countries in the world in terms of ...

there is no doubt that human being needs to become integrated with industry and industry needs to be progressed, daily. on the other hand, serious events in industrial units specially in oil industries has been shown that such damages and events are industry related ones. the consequence of such events and damages which resulted in chemical and poisoned explosions and loss of life and property ...