Land Suitability of Urban and Industrial Development Using Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) and A New Model by GIS in Fasa County, Iran

Masoud Masoudi (), Mostafa Aboutalebi, Elham Asrari and Artemi Cerdà ()
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Masoud Masoudi: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz 71441-1331, Iran
Mostafa Aboutalebi: Department of Civil Engineering, Payame Noor University, Tehran 19395-3697, Iran
Elham Asrari: Department of Civil Engineering, Payame Noor University, Tehran 19395-3697, Iran
Artemi Cerdà: Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, Valencia University, 46010 Valencia, Spain

Land, 2023, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: Land use planning is a science that specifies the optimized use of land based on ecological and socioeconomic characteristics. In many parts of Iran, the selection and management of land use (development, especially) is performed regardless of land capability, which causes disinvestment and reduces the environmental capacity. The main objective of this study is to evaluate and reform the ecological model of urban, rural, and industrial development in the study area. This study was conducted in Fasa County in the southern part of Iran, and the investigated methods included Weighted Linear Combination (WLC) or Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE), with two views, without limitation and with limitation, and the proposed geometric mean method through the integration of maps in GIS. The results showed that the geometric mean evaluation model (with kappa = 0.69) is the best and easiest compared to other models in the estimation of environmental capability. It should be mentioned that the lowest precision (with kappa = 0.59) between the methods was observed in the MCE method without a limiting factor, and it is clear that the limiting factor has a decisive role in assessing ecological capability and increasing accuracy. It is concluded that the proposed geometric mean method, due to the simplicity and high accuracy of the calculations, has a significant contribution to increasing efficiency and reducing the costs associated with the assessment of ecological capability.

Keywords: land use planning; ecological capability assessment; geometric mean; multi-criteria evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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