Presenting a new and green approach in order to land capability evaluation for industry in ZAGROS region

Land use planning is the regulation of the relationship between human beings, land and activity in order to make appropriate and sustainable use of all facilities. Due to the lack of a comprehensive use planning in Iran, especially in the Zagros region, the destruction of natural resources and habitats in the region and the poor living conditions, it is necessary to address this issue. In this research, spatial evaluation method has been used in combination with decision making techniques. For this purpose, 31 criteria in both ecological and socio -economic sectors have been used to measure and evaluate the capability of the Zagros region. First, using 20 criteria, ecological capability was assessed and its index was obtained, and then, using 11 criteria, the socio -economic development index was calculated, and by combination of these two indicators, the final development index was extracted. Based on the final evaluation results and criteria used in this process, about 59% of the total area is constrained. 2.72% of the region has a very good potential for industrial development and about 5.55% has a good potential. This means that in total about 8.5% of the area of the study area has a suitable and very suitable capacity for development. The socio -economic development index is defined based on 11 economic and social criteria, which are calculated separately for each province and then finalized in combination with the ecological capability index. The results of this index show that Kermanshah province has the highest power (0.52) and Kurdistan province has the lowest power (0.20).