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Recognizing the existing potentials of Iran in identification of Natural Resources for Ecological Studies with a Land Use Planning Approach
Security, Economic efficiency,Conservation of environment and cultural heritage Principles of land use planning:Those who believe in an interaction between principles of regional development and spatial arrangement Regional balances: those who believe in social justice and equality of all regions in facilities Long-term development view point: those who believe in a long-term strategy for both economic & political development Laying the foundations for long-term national development, making jobs and job opportunities
 Major Interpretations of land Use Planning 1- The state of the environment and reducing destruction: At the end of 1970s, people appeared the most destructive behavior facing with environment. The gulf war imposed a lot of destructive effects on the environment of our country. When the oil wells of Kuwait was targeted by Iraqi forces, huge thick clouds covered about 500000 km2 of the sky of Iran, causing acid rain from the north to the east of the country. Gulf war caused health problems for about 12.5 million people of Iran, destructed 5 million hectares of agricultural lands, 8 million hectares of forests and 8.5 million hectares of pastures and vanished numerous fauna and flora species vanished (National Report of Iran-Management and Planning organization-1992). On the other hand; in recent years floods, pollution in large cities, extinction of a vast part of forests, uncontrolled growth of cities, vast desertification, abandoned farms resulted from migration of villagers to the cities are all examples of disturbance in the state of environment of the country. The process of destruction in different dimensions has many reasons, but we can find the major one in unreasonable use of the land. If this process continues during the future 20 years, 30 million hectares of the available fertile lands will be destroyed and this is while the whole available fertile lands of the country is 30 million hectares. World statistics show that the number of cities with more than 8 million population has increased from 2 cities to 28 cities, water consumption has been increased from 1300 billion m3 to 4200 billion m3, gas production has been increased from 5 billion tons per year to 25 billion tones and the extent of rain forests has had 30% decrease. The metal resources such as Nickel, Copper, Zinc, Plumb will be respectively ended up after 55,36,25,21 years and each minute 5.6 hectares of forests of the world are destroyed. (the Deputy of the Environment Organization of Iran - 2000) |