Land Use Planning and Water Resources Management; Resource Planning Instead of Activities Planning(Case Study: Caspian Basin)

Caspian basin is one of the six basins of the country due to the development of human activities over the past decades by land use plans cause severe changes in land cover in this basin That it can cause undesirable effects on water resources in the basin. In this paper, to evaluate the effect of land use on water resources in the form of land-cover change, First, to assess the changes in land cover in the Caspian basin, And then the pressure on water resources scoring using FANP method then in the IDRISI software maps are made and in the Arc GIS maps overlay. Finally, and by Excel software Regression and correlation between changes in land cover and land use management of water resources in the Caspian basin will be determined.Results and Discution: The results show that in the period between 2001 and 2012 Talesh sub-basin with 28.91 % and Sefidrud with 8.18 % had maximum and lowest land cover changes in the Caspian basin. Also final scoring of water resource management in the Caspian basin shown that Ara sub-basin with 0.499617 and Haraz-Ghareh Su sub-basin with 0.158627 had maximum and lowest score of water resource management in the Caspian basin. Also the results of the dependence of changes in land cover by land use management and water resources management in the Caspian subbasin shown that the dependence of R-Squared is equal to 0.645, indicating a relatively high dependence on the field.