查看文章

Growing use of natural resources reveals the importance of land capability evaluation studies. But caring out such studies involve considering a lot of criteria in different aspects like environmental and socio economic factors. Meanwhile traditional studies have many deficiencies including being expensive and time consuming as well as lack of a proper handle of various qualitative and quantitative criteria. This study aims to investigate the land evaluation of Varjin, a protected area near the Tehran, for implementation of extensive recreations using spatial analytical hierarchy process. Existence of many natural attractive sceneries as well as proximity to the capital city of Tehran caused this region to be a suitable area for recreational purposes. Totally, 16 layers information are utilized as criterion maps for evaluation of extensive recreational potential usage. Results showed that, totally 63.17% of 26907 ha from the area for implementation of extensive recreation were recognized as suitable. Also result of this study showed the effectiveness of spatial analytical hierarchy process in land analysis issues.