A NEW AND QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO WEIGHTING AND ECOLOGICAL CAPABILITY EVALUATION AND COMPARISON WITH THE CURRENT METHOD OF MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION IN AGRICULTURE AND RANGELAND USES, SEPIDAN COUNTY

A New and Quantitative Approach to Weighting and Ecological Capability Evaluation and Comparison with the Current Method of Multi-Criteria Evaluation in Agriculture and Rangeland Uses, Sepidan County

Land-use planning is a science that specifies the optimized land-use based on ecological and socioeconomic characteristics.This study investigated ecological capability evaluation for agriculture and rangeland uses using the GIS in the Sepidan County, Fars Province.There are different methods for weighting of parameters.A proposed quantitative meth

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Links between the Big Dry in Australia and hemispheric multi-decadal climate variability – implications for water resource management

Southeast Australia (SEA) experienced a protracted drought during the mid-1990s until early 2010 (known as the Big Dry or Millennium Drought) that resulted in serious environmental, social and economic effects.This paper analyses a range of historical climate data sets to place the recent drought into context in terms of Southern Hemisphere inter-a

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