scholarly journals Geological Maps in the Kurdistan Region

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Varoujan K. Siakian
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
Geologic Map ◽  
Oil Wealth ◽  
Source Of Information

In all countries, an accurate geologic map is needed to understand the Earth’s resources. It is the vital source of information for various aspects of land-use planning, such as assessment of oil wealth, utilization of the decision-makers, and planners. In the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, unfortunately, detailed geological maps at a scale of 1:20,000 are not available, especially along the extreme northern and northeastern parts where minerals showing exist there. However, geological maps at a scale of 1:1,00,000 and 1:2,50,000 are available, but they cannot be utilized for the above-mentioned uses.

scholarly journals Land Use Projections Under Alternative Policies: A Transition Matrix Approach

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce E. Lindsay ◽  
Daniel L. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Land Use Policy ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Past ◽  
Accelerated Growth ◽  
Insight Into

As a result of accelerated growth during the past decade, land use change over time and its accompanying problems represents a policy area germane to New Hampshire. Accurate projections of the future pattern of land use would be helpful to decision makers responsible for land use policy. Such projections could assist policy makers either directly in formulating land use plans or indirectly in justifying the need (or lack of need) for overt land use planning. Future projections, based upon various alternative land use policy scenarios, will increase the quantitative supply of information to decision makers in a two-fold manner. First, such estimates provide an insight into the current trend in land use mix and, secondly, give an overview of what impacts various policies directly have upon land use change.

scholarly journals Iraqi Kurdistan Referendum and its Implications

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-18
Author(s):  
Hemin H. Mirkhan
Keyword(s):  
International Community ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
International Regime ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Domestic Affair

The Kurds in Iraq have won the international community’s trust as they have been part of the solution to the issues facing the region. Dissatisfied with Baghdad and overconfident that the regional countries will not backlash due to the referendum, the KRG proceeded with the referendum for independence in the Kurdistan region including the disputed areas. The KRG decision-makers were vigilant enough to avoid playing the nationalist card and make the case exclusively as a domestic affair. Neither neighboring countries, in which many Kurds are residents, nor the international community supported the referendum. In this article, I would like to bring certain aspects of the Kurdistan Independence Referendum into a better light of appreciation. It will be argued that it is not about the process rather the structure of the international regime of recognition. The international community has opted for the already dysfunctional Iraq.

scholarly journals The susceptibility assessment of multi-hazard in the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, China

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuanming Ma ◽  
Xiaoyu Wu ◽  
Bin Li ◽  
Ximei Hu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Difference Method ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Hazard Map ◽  
Geological Hazards ◽  
Susceptibility Assessment ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Abstract. The multi-hazard susceptibility assessment can provide a basis to decision-making for land use planning and geo-hazards management. The main scope of this paper is assess multi-hazard susceptibility to identify susceptibility area by using an integrated method of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Difference Method (MD) within MapGIS environment. The basic principle of this method is to predict future geological hazards based on occurrence mechanism of occurred geological hazards and the geological conditions that caused past geological hazards. Typical geo-hazards susceptibility are separately assessed by applying Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The multi-hazard susceptibility is completed by synthesizing individual geo-hazards susceptibility result with the Difference Method (MD), the multi-hazard susceptibility map is generated by utilizing MapGIS platform. The multi-hazard map can provide decision-makers with visual information for geo-hazards management and land use planning, which reduce confusion of decision-makers on high number of individual geo-hazard map. The study area was categorized into high susceptibility zone, moderate susceptibility zone, low susceptibility zone, and insusceptible zone, accounting for 16.5 %, 41.6 %, 33.8 % and 8.1 % of the total study area, respectively. The multi-hazad susceptibility result can be combined with other conditions to provide decision-makers with theoretical basis for geo-hzards management and planning of development.

From Mobility to Accessibility

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Levine ◽  
Joe Grengs ◽  
Louis A. Merlin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Transportation Planning ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
Per Se

This book flips the tables on the standard models for evaluating regional transportation performance. It argues for an “accessibility shift” whereby transportation planning, and the transportation dimensions of land-use planning, would be based on people's ability to reach destinations, rather than on their ability to travel fast. Existing models for planning and evaluating transportation, which have taken vehicle speeds as the most important measure, would make sense if movement were the purpose of transportation. But it is the ability to reach destinations, not movement per se, that people seek from their transportation systems. While the concept of accessibility has been around for the better part of a century, the book shows that the accessibility shift is compelled by the fundamental purpose of transportation. It argues that the shift would be transformative to the practice of both transportation and land-use planning but is impeded by many conceptual obstacles regarding the nature of accessibility and its potential for guiding development of the built environment. By redefining success in transportation, the book provides city planners, decision makers, and scholars a path to reforming the practice of transportation and land-use planning in modern cities and metropolitan areas.

Supporting decision makers in land use planning around chemical sites. Case study: expansion of an oil refinery

2000 ◽  
Vol 71 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 343-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis A Papazoglou ◽  
Gerasimos S Bonanos ◽  
Zoe S Nivolianitou ◽  
Nijs Jan Duijm ◽  
Birgitte Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Oil Refinery

scholarly journals Determining the Tectonic Origin of the Gara and Mateen Anticlines Using Geomorphological and Structural Forms, Iraqi Kurdistan Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-100
Author(s):  
Varoujan Sissakian ◽  
Ala Ghafur ◽  
Hawkar Abdulhaq ◽  
Hassan Omer
Keyword(s):  
Structural Features ◽  
Alluvial Fans ◽  
Lateral Growth ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
Geological Maps ◽  
Different Shapes ◽  
The Town ◽  
East West ◽  
Tectonic Origin

Gara and Mateen are 2 major anticlines in the northern part of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, located in the vicinity of the town Amadiyah. Both anticlines are oriented in an almost east–west (E–W) trend with a steep southern limb. The length and width of the Gara and Mateen anticlines are 87 km and 63 km, and 11 km and 9.5 km, respectively. The 2 anticlines are separated by a wide and shallow syncline filled by the Tertiary rocks of the Pliocene–Pleistocene age. The oldest exposed rocks in the Gara and Mateen anticlines are from the Triassic age. The carapace of both anticlines is built up by the Bekhme and Qamchuqa formations. The geomorphological and structural features were studied through satellite images and geological maps. Based on these studies, it was found that both anticlines show clear geomorphological and structural features that indicate their lateral growth. Among those features are water and wind gaps, different shapes of valleys that indicate lateral growth, abandoned alluvial fans, whale-back shapes, en-echelon plunges, and multiple dome anticlines. Furthermore, the rate of upward movements was calculated using neotectonic data. In addition, the rate of river and stream incisions was calculated on the basis of the height of the river terrace levels.

scholarly journals Geo-environmental Assessment of Al-Ramtha Soils, Jordan

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeb Al- Shereideh ◽  
Mohammad Wahsha ◽  
Nazem El-Radaideh ◽  
Ahmed Al-Taani ◽  
Nabeel Abderahman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Assessment ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Soil Genesis ◽  
The Future

This study aims to characterize the pollution conditions by measuring the concentrations of selected heavy metals. It also intends to investigate the relations between soil genesis and lithology. This provides knowledge about the future of the agricultural development in the area and helps decision makers in the land use planning.

scholarly journals Establishment of Natural Hazards Mapping Criteria Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florentino F. Morales ◽  
Walter Timo de Vries
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Hazard Mapping ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Despite the large number of studies on natural hazards mapping and modeling, an increasing number of disasters still occur worldwide. Floods, landslides, and tsunamis, among others, consistently hit vulnerable countries, resulting in increasing death tolls and economic losses in the last decades. The increased reliability of available hazard maps is still insufficient when not fully integrated and incorporated in the respective communities' land use plans. As a pro-active and preventive approach in combatting disasters, land use planning requires the relevant stakeholders' active participation. This study derives the most crucial criteria in the eyes of planners, experts, and decision-makers for natural hazards mapping as part of land use planning and part of disaster risk reduction. These stakeholders and experts establish criteria for flood, landslide, earthquake and storm surge hazard mapping through Multi-criteria Evaluation (MCE). The MCE technique compares the relative merits of different spatially related criteria following the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) through pair-wise comparisons of criteria by experts and the decision-makers. This research process derives a general and consistent list of criteria for hazard mapping initially developed and based in the Philippines, which can be used in subsequent GIS analysis. Results further show the advantages of using AHP in a multi-criteria analysis for decision-making and compliance.

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