Iran's Integrated Coastal Management plan: Persian Gulf, Oman Sea, and southern Caspian Sea coastlines

Pak, Ali; Farajzadeh, Manuchehr

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2007.03.006

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“…It is timely to reappraise its value as a strategic management tool (Pickton and Wright, 1998). As Park and Farajzadeh, (2007) have mentioned, due to the different problems that exist in Iran's northern and southern coastal areas, different policies are considered for solving these problems. The policies for the Caspian Sea coastlines that are based on the strengths and weaknesses can be categorized as: 1. equalization of distribution of population and activities along the coast consistent with the existing ecological capacities, 2. strengthening potential tourism capabilities and promoting its management efficiency at the national and international levels and giving priority to the private sector, 3. preventing irregular expansion of coastal cities and considering the shoreline's limitations for establishing new human settlements, 4. preventing marine environment pollution, prevention of forest destruction, protection of soil-water resources and enhancing shoreline ecotourism via strengthening environmental management.…”

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Environmental management of coastal regions in the Caspian Sea

Nouri¹,

Karbassi

Mirkia³

2007

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

114

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Considering rapid population growth and migration, higher accumulation of communities is noticed in coastal areas. This is especially true with the coastal areas of the Caspian Sea. In the present investigation coastal areas between Jouybar to Behshahr region is selected for their special geographical and ecological locations. Further, adverse impacts of human, agriculture and industrial activities was examined along side the above mentioned coasts. It should be pointed out that protected Miankaleh Wildlife zone which is an internationally recognized wetland, falls within area of study. In the present study strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats method is used for the evaluation of environmental management status. In this regard, internal and external factors gained 2.28 and 2.58 scores. This is indicative of the abundance of weaknesses over strengths and it also shows that opportunities are more than threats. Subsequently 27 strategies were developed and quantitative strategic planning matrix method was also used to score each strategies. The results of quantitative strategic planning matrix method analysis was programmed in strategic position and action evaluation matrix. The present situation falls within "competitive" classification. This is indicative of weakness in coordinating development and environmental strategic plans. The result of present investigation strongly emphasis on compilation of strategic environmental plans for the control of population, pollution emission and land use planning changes. The most important strategies include development of environmental regulations and better supervision on enforcement of laws.

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Environmental management of coastal regions in the Caspian Sea

Nouri¹,

Karbassi

Mirkia³

2007

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

114

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“…The region has outstanding natural attractions, which could preserve a good potential for development of tourism industry (Pak & Farajzadeh, 2007;Nouri et al, 2008;Farhoodi et al, 2009). …”

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Strategic planning for tourism industry using SWOT and QSPM

Abya¹,

Khalili²,

Ebrahimi³

et al. 2015

10.5267/j.msl

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Tourism plays essential role in today's economy and Iran has good position of tourism sources such as natural, historical, cultural, etc., although, these sources have not been utilized, properly. One of regions which have many potentiality and capabilities for developing Tourism in natural aspect is district and city of Galugah. The purpose of this study is to provide strategic assessment and optimization strategies for development of tourism industry to reach sustainable tourism development in this city. The study uses three techniques namely; Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) and strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) to determine necessary guidelines for development of tourism in the city of Galugah, Iran. The study first uses SWOT to categorize different factors and then QSPM is applied to prioritize various factors. The results of this study show that presenting methods in initial process and analyzing assessment matrix of T2 external and internal factors i.e. pollution of environment and river and extinction of plants species by result of pollution and O2 i.e. suitable climate for developing natural Tourism efforts in summer have been recognized as most priority factors among external factors. Intense cold of region in summer (W3) and existence of unique amusement places (S5) such as Amarg were recognized as effective and most priority factors among internal factors on Tourism development of Galugah city.Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 5

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“…Statistics show that 1.6 million people live within 10 km of the shoreline, and 3.7 million people live within 50 km of the shoreline (Pak and Farajzadeh, 2007). Whereas the western and middle parts of the southern Caspian coast are well developed, the eastern and northeastern coasts are less developed.…”

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“…Whereas the western and middle parts of the southern Caspian coast are well developed, the eastern and northeastern coasts are less developed. The Iranian Caspian coast has a subtropical climate and a rainfall pattern that shows a strong gradient from 1900 mm in Anzali in the western part to around 196 mm in the southeastern corner of the CS (Kakroodi et al, 2012;Pak and Farajzadeh, 2007).…”

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