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Tourism is a valuable and quick-impact on economic approach and is raised to land use considerations, and has fewer risks and costs in the field of investment due to the availability of resources compared to other projects. The purpose of land use planning is to balance geographical distribution of economic, social and cultural activities in the area toward natural and human resources, and therefore to achieve sustainable development. Tourism as one of the multi-dimensional aspects of spatial development of a region has the potential to be the first in the development planning. In the last decade, “geoparks” as geotourism targets are considered the main approach of development in many advanced countries and those that have limited resources or related industries. National and international introduction and registration of empowerment zones called “geoparks” is the new initiatives in the development of geotourism, and is important strategies in order to achieve goals such as sustainability and environmental protection, rehabilitation and economic stability of local communities (employment, income), creation of social welfare in rural areas and low population centers which are of low interest of industrial, mining and oil budgets. In this paper, with the use of descriptive survey method (review the attractions and potentials of the Lorestan province), using SWOT strategic plan, necessary strategies to establish eoparks have been developed and proposed. Based on IE matrix, the sum of total score of internal factors of geopark role in the province geotourism was obtained to be 3.916, which means strength of the internal factors in the province. Therefore, the province capabilities in the creation of eoparks has overcome the weaknesses. The sum of total score of external factors was obtained 3.674, which means opportunities overcome the threats in the creation of geoparks. So, the creation of geoparks as a preference option in empowerment in Lorestan province was proposed and studied, and aggressive strategy was determined as the prioritized strategy in this regard.

The Gurpi Formation has a wide extent in the Zagros Sedimentary Basin.It has received considerable attention due to its unique stratigraphic position, chronostratigraphic importance, and floral and faunal diversity and abundance.In order to biostratigraphically classification and correlation of theGurpi Formation in Kuh-e-Gach andKuh-e Kurdeh sections (Lar region, Fars province), this study concentrated on the calcareous nannofloral content of sediments.From the prepared 300 microscopic slides, a total of 53 species from 30 genera belonging to 15 families were determined, described and photographed. The distribution of nannofloral assemblage of the Gurpi Formation in Kuh-e Kurdeh reveals presence of CC18 to CC24 zones indicating an Early Campanian to Early Maastrichtian age, while in Kuh-e Gach CC19 to CC24 zones with an age range of Early Campanian to Early Maastrichtian are present. Occurrence of various speciesof low latitude affinities points toward such positioning of depositional basin of the Gurpi Formation.