Evaluation of Ecotourism Effects on Rudbar-e Qasran and Lavasanat Zone Using the DPSIR Framework

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University

2 Professor, Center for Remote Sensing & GIS Studies, Shahid Beheshti University

3 Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University.

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Abstract

Ecotourism is a part of the tourism industry that has attracted the attention of many officials and people in recent years and it is one of the levers of economic and social development of many developed and developing countries. Since the non-systematic activity of the ecotourism can negatively affect the environment, evaluating the ecotourism activities using valid scientific frameworks and methods, such as DPSIR, can be effective and useful in the managers’ planning of this industry. The main purpose of this research was to investigate the ecotourism status in Rudbar-e Qasran and Lavasanat Zone using the DPSIR framework. Each of the five sections of this evaluation model was analyzed and the findings were presented in the form of a table. According to the results from the classification of images in 2004 and 2016, the constructed spaces have increased from 3625 square meters to 8744 square meters. One of the reasons for this can be the increase in the population, proximity to the capital, the ease of commuting, the expansion of second homes, and increasing the construction of tourist-related service sites.
The conducted evaluations and the obtained results of this research can be used as a decision support structure for managers and planners in this area to adopt appropriate strategies for implementing sustainable ecotourism.

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