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Ecological Based Planning of Forest Outdoor Recreation Case Study: Traditional Span of Mandj in Lordegan Forests-Iran
Beytollah Mahmoudi, Naghmeh Sharifi, Rahim Maleknia, Reza Ahmadeian and Amin Haghsetan
Corresponding Author: Rahim Maleknia
Submitted: November 02, 2011
Accepted: November 23, 2011
Published: July 25, 2012 |
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Forest is considered as one of the most important and most attractive recreation resources in nature which
is the destination of most of the nature tourists. One of the most important ecologic usages of Zagros forests in west
of Iran is outdoor recreation planning. In this study, using local multi criteria evaluation method, emphasizing on
ecological criteria and combination of informational layers using Geographic Information System (GIS), forest
based recreation planning in two forms of intensive and extensive in traditional span of Mandj in Lordegan city in
Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiari province is studied and outdoor recreation desirability of areas are determined using
weighted method. Also cooling power method of Biker was used for time evaluation of planning. Six (6) criteria
including climate, soil, forest structure, water sources, shape of land and landscape, 12 secondary criteria and 36
indices were used in order to evaluate outdoor recreation ecologic ability of region. According to this investigation,
7 forest areas with total area of 6.3 ha are suitable for intensive outdoor recreation and remaining areas of this region
(2476 ha) could be used for extensive outdoor recreation. Checking ecologic local criteria used in this study showed
that water sources as a limiting factor, is a key exclusive factor in evaluating ecologic outdoor recreation power in
this region. Also results showed months May, June, October, September, July and August are most suitable based on
climate parameters.
Key words: Ecological base planning , forest outdoor recreation, lordegan, spatial multi criteria evaluation, , ,
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Beytollah Mahmoudi, Naghmeh Sharifi, Rahim Maleknia, Reza Ahmadeian and Amin Haghsetan, . Ecological Based Planning of Forest Outdoor Recreation Case Study: Traditional Span of Mandj in Lordegan Forests-Iran. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, (07): 680-687.
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