Multi objective land allocation (MOLA) for zoning Ghamishloo Wildlife Sanctuary in Iran

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 254-262

  Hajehforooshnia, Shila ^a,b   Soffianian, Alireza ^b   Mahiny, A Salman ^c   Fakheran, Sima ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Conservation; Fuzzy sets; GIS; Multi criteria evaluation; Protected area zoning; Weighted linear combination

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; GIS; HABITAT RESTORATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLICY MAKING; PROTECTED AREA; VEGETATION COVER; ZONING SYSTEM;

ESFAHAN [ESFAHAN (PRV)]; ESFAHAN [IRAN]; IRAN;

EID: 79958264646     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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