Identification of Priority Areas for the Application of Water and Soil Conservation Measures: A Study Region of the Northeastern MOND Basin

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• hamed dehghanpur
• mansour zibaei

University of Shiraz- Faculty of Agriculture- Department of Agricultural Economics

10.30495/jae.2024.20981.1999

Abstract

In recent decades, rapid changes in land use and vegetation been accompanied by significant impacts, including degradation of natural resources, environmental pollution, and inappropriate growth of different areas. Awareness of land use change and the analysis of the reason for these changes in a given time period and prediction of these changes in the coming years can be an important step in the planning and implementation of water and soil conservation measures. The results show that, over time, we will encounter medium and poor pasturelands with increasing area of residential land, land and agricultural lands and decreasing forestland area. In addition, based on the results of land use prediction and prioritization of sub-basins, the sub-basins of Quar, Ghotbabad and Khafar in 2030, Ghotbabad, between the forest and Quar in 2045, and Ghotbabad, Medi-Jangal and Zahedon in 2060 had a higher environmental significance than other sub-basins. In the sub-basins of Hakan, Ajanjan and Firoozabad, the application of water and soil conservation measures is of great importance.

Keywords

• Prioritization of catchment basins
• water conservation
• soil conservation
• Markov chain
• Fuzzy hierarchy analysis

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