Development Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on Karkas Protected Area by Using Destruction

Shirmohammadi, Iman; Jahani, Ali; Etemad, Vahid; Zargham, Nosratollah; Makhdom, Majid

Development Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) on Karkas Protected Area by Using Destruction

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Associate Professor of Forestry and Forest Economics Department, College of Natural Resources, Karaj, Iran

² Professor of Forestry and Forest Economics Department, College of Natural Resources, Karaj, Iran

Abstract

Protected areas are one the places that need to be continuously monitored. In order to determine the effects of development on karkas protected area, impact assessment was done. Degradation model for protected areas can provide useful information to the managers of these areas. In addition to identifying vulnerable areas and resistant to degradation caused by human activities and the implementation of activities in the past, it also shows a possible development in the future. Hydrologic units were chosen as a unit work for the first time. The elements of this model, including the severity of damage and physiological density and ecological vulnerability was computed in each unit. Then, each of these elements were mapped. After computing the parameters of the degradation model, final map was prepared. Also in this study, degradation coefficients based on fuzzy theory was categorized for the first time. Thus, all subjects were compared in terms of intensity and extent of damage and the entire region were divided into 3 zones, prone to development, need rehabilitation and need conservation. Yet despite the development of the second- prone areas in the region, according to priorities based on the local conditions and also taking into account the socio-economic issues, there is no possibility of further development.

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