Before creating a free zone in the Qeshm Island, the indicators of development (social, economic, physical and environmental), the lowest value was found. Nowadays, these indicators increase in this island. This research study the role of Qeshm in Iran Census in urban development, and social security in Qeshm examined, Method of research is descriptive – analytical. The results suggest that the creation of social development indicators like education Qeshm, population and economic indicators such as the expansion of commercial markets, docks, customs, employment trends have been growing, despite the positive effects of creating, bottom of these crimes in the future urban structure of Qeshm is also ineffective acknowledges it is 50 percent of respondents to the insecurity situation in the city of Qeshm in the future will increase relative to the status Qeshm.

Nowadays, tourism development in rural capable tourism sample areas is one of the ways to save the villages from poverty, immigration, social and economical problems. So, the present study identified the environmental potential of the tourism sample area of Hajij Village through using a set of internal factors (strengths and weaknesses) and the external factors (opportunities and threats) and then, codified the tourism strategic plan in this area. Accordingly, the present study was an applied-developmental research with descriptive-analytic methodology. The data from questionnaires and field studies were survived in order to determine the four dimensions of SWOT technique. The research had a simple random sampling including tourism experts and scholars in the province. The findings of the study showed that Hajij Village had 11 strengths, 11 weaknesses, 12 opportunities, and 6 threats, which according to priority of these factors, T2, W3, O2, and S4 had the most scores. In addition, WO and SO strategies were located in the first and second priority for tourism planning. This assessment leaded to codifying of tourism development program of Hajij Village, which could help the improvement of tourism status in the tourism sample area of Hajij.

This study conducted to locate the landfill in the range of studies, in view of the most recent guidelines Environment Protection Organization of Iran as to the citation Article 12 of the law and article 23 executive bylaws Waste management In order to Reducing the damaging effects of environmental Activities, locations and Utilities Related with the Processing and disposal Ordinary wastes, Including all the places of burial and recycling Has been prepared. Using the screening regional method and GIS, the Legal-restricted areas as well as the fit regions for waste disposal at the regional scale reviewed and was specified. Then, fit regions in the local scale with regard the important parameters in this method and the weight of them have been Priorities. Three main natural conditions، land-use and economic factors was interference in this method. Then, based on the population growth rate and the amount of waste produced in a horizon of 20 years the area of land required for landfill in the Study area specified and Lands prone with an area of less than the amount determined is removed from the map of merit and was provision the final suitability maps include appropriate land-landfill by taking all the conditions and criteria of the environment protection organization of Iran was determined prone for landfill the 2770.7 hectares at regional scales and 2105.6 hectares of land at the local scale of the whole range of Studies.

Sustained development is achieved an overlapping is created between ecological, economical and social classes. The purpose of this research is to determine and measure the sustainability criteria and indices. An ecological approach has used in order to assess sustainability in watershed of Zeidasht1 to maintain a balance between three economical, social and ecosystem categories. Selected variables were obtained using common assessment and their value. In order to assess sustainability, watershed and range management projects monitoring and evaluation monitoring provided by  president strategically supervising planning assistant and range and watershed management, forest organization(watershed management department, coordination and planning department) for Iran. As a whole, in rangeland ecological section, three criteria, nine indices and fourteen variables were evaluated. Final score for ecological one was 45 fall in to in moderate class and final score dedicated to social and economical issues about 32 that number of 2 is obtained in respect to 16 selective variables that also it categorized into moderate class. Eventually using matrices, score estimation and watershed validation table, watershed sustainability is determined. In respect to total Zeidasht watershed score, this watershed is categorized in too poor sustainability class.

Aim of this study is to identify suitable Urban Development spots with application of Environmental Criteria in Mahmoodabad Township. A series of criteria were identified by investigating various sources about the location of urban development to achieve the aim of this study. Then criteria were selected by Delphi questionnaire or survey experts. So 12 criteria and 30 subcriteria were selected for urban development site selection in Mahmoodabad Township. These remained criteria which can convert to maps were weighted with AHP method. Then criteria were converted to maps by Arc GIS software. After that the maps combined with a weighted linear combination by Arc GIS software and appropriate spots for urban development were chosen. Area of the biggest spot is 0/7 square kilometers and area of the next spot is 0/4 square kilometers. According to 26th article of executive regulations for new towns building, minimum area of a new city is 3 square kilometers. So, none of the spots are suitable for urban development. Results and the criteria which obtained in this research can be used as a guide in areas that have similar features (north coastal area of country) to Mahmoodabad Township.

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors which are affected the functional changes of rural areas in Qom province which was implemented by the descriptive, analytic-measuring methodology. In this project, 145 experts and managers related to planning and rural development were questioned about their views. After this investigation, by the method of factor analyzing, eight key factors as the affective factors on functional changes of the rural areas were extracted and entitled. First factor, limitations in development of agriculture and employment in rural areas have at least 14% of the total variance and identified as the most important factor. Access and interaction of urban and rural areas, the promotion of tourism, the urbanization of the rural environment attractive, the new investment in rural areas the population changes and the facilities and services, respectively, 12.79% ,9/48% ,8/50% ,6/80% ,5/20% ,4/84% and 4.46% of the total variance of the variables explained

In this article, the “urban network and inter connected area “ was introduced as an approach to add the spatial and location dimensions to current regional planning practices. With inquiry of theoretical framework of those approach, this article is going to try to show the weakness of traditional method about hierarchical clustering of settlement. Also applying new approach about Qom province and determination of hierarchical clustering of settlements in this province is another purpose of this article. Outcomes of the article show that new approach with special highlight on spatial and location factors is precise method in relation to tradition method.

Industrialization and Urban sprawl together with population growth and increases in water consumption cause water pollution and destruction of natural resources quality; these are followed by reducing access to available resources such as drinking water. Every year a significant amount of urban waste water is discharged to water resources, while natural treatment is impossible. Cities in each level require different facilities and infrastructure. optimal resource utilization with appropriate site selection for water & wastewater facilities have an important role in water quality in the major cities and can control water pollution, so it has been considered to increase the quality of life in cities, also the neglect of attention to climate condition such as morphology, hydrology and topography cause negative impacts on urban environment. There are different models and methods to select suitable sites for facilities. They are specifically important in arid land where water resources have become increasingly scarce. One of the methods is zoning. In this paper satellite images have been used to locate facilities in a typical arid city in Iran, Shiraz. The large-scaled (landscape scale) land use maps has been prepared for Shiraz-Neiriz water basin, and the distinctive zones were determined base on arid and semi arid geo-hydro morphology. Then each zone were analyzed using large-scale land use, soil and topographic factors to determine adequate potential sites for facilities by regarding sustainable development and considering the cumulative effects of upstream area. At the end, some suggestions were determined to reduce urban environment pollution.

Natural sites with cultural value are one of the most important biological and cultural diversity reservoirs which have been conserved over several centuries by people. But in the present era, due to the lack of conservation criteria and also because of human activities, these sites have been threatened. The aim of this paper is to prioritize criteria for identification of conservation zones with cultural value. At first essential criteria for the aims of the survey were identified, and then assembled in a new structure. On the whole, 12 criteria were identified for the selection of protected areas, afterwards based on the Delphi method these criteria were screened out and the criteria landscapes with cultural values, intangible cultural assets, legal protection, tangible cultural assets, geographical region with natural value, social tendency, social institutions, unique natural landscape, geographical region with cultural value, specific species, conservation importance and social dependency; respectively, were considered important.

Increasing technology and population in the two recent decades have led to destructing nature and changing its land cover. Remote sensing is one of those new technologies which provide accessibility for managing earth resources. the dynamic information of remote sensing can play an effective role for monitoring and analysis of land use change using digital change detection techniques. Method used for the rate of development of remote sensing, is on the basis geometric correction, spatial and spectral enhancement of available satellite images with regard to the maximum likelihood supervised classification and post classification method. At first we produced land use maps by using the satellite images of landsat. The results of this study are, in addition to the impacts of environmental sensitivity visualization development trend based on the visual display, calculate of the land use changes together in developed area and production of digital map changes, to support land management.