Reza Mansouri; Ezzatollah Ghanavati; Mohammad Reza Servati
Abstract
The vast country of Iran has diverse geographical conditions with 11 out of 13 known climates in theworld. This hasresulted in many environmental,ecotourist, recreational, and economic capabilities. The tourist infrastructure of any region is the nature of that area and as one of its parts,geotourism ...
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The vast country of Iran has diverse geographical conditions with 11 out of 13 known climates in theworld. This hasresulted in many environmental,ecotourist, recreational, and economic capabilities. The tourist infrastructure of any region is the nature of that area and as one of its parts,geotourism has in recent years, experienced a dramatic and significant upsurge in the world and has had a great influence on regional development. Geomorphological and geological visit is one of the main aspects of Geotourism. Ilam province with a surface area of 19,086 KM2ranges from 31 deg. 58 min. to 34 deg. 15 min. North Latitude from the Equator and 45 deg. 24 min. to 48 deg. 10 min. East Longitude from the Greenwich. The province is considered as one of the most prone areas for development of geotourism with its geotourist, geomorphological and geological attractions such as caves, mountains, rivers, waterfalls and springs. In this regard, attention to the natural capacities, conservation, presentation and utilization of geotourism attractions can play an important role in the sustainable development of the province,while it can be effective in solving problems such as unemployment and creation of employment in the province.This research studies the characteristics of Ilam province in a library, field, descriptive - analytical method and by using maps and satellite images,
Mohammad Reza Servati; Fariba Azad; Reza Mansoori
Volume 23, SEPEHR , July 2014, , Pages 94-105
Abstract
Geomorphological events with a direct effect on human are especially important for applied geomorphologists. Our discussion in this article is limited to geomorphological hazards. Hazards happen after passing a threshold. Some hazards like earthquake are completely natural, but some others are quite ...
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Geomorphological events with a direct effect on human are especially important for applied geomorphologists. Our discussion in this article is limited to geomorphological hazards. Hazards happen after passing a threshold. Some hazards like earthquake are completely natural, but some others are quite related to human activity. Here we describe the main geomorphological hazards and their influences. Unfortunately, the wide range of geomorphological hazards is not completely understood, therefore table 1 provides a list of geomorphological hazards. Moreover, their catastrophic results are not understood and table 2 provides a list of the world most important natural disasters caused by geomorphological events. Some parts of the world are unfortunate enough to experience a large number of geomorphological hazards. There are two main discussions regarding hazards. First, some hazards like volcano, earthquakes, corrosions fault are results of structural motions of the earth crust and actually they act in a very short time interval. Second and more interestingly, some hazards caused by geomorphological procedures happen in a short period of time-within days, or even hours. River floods, sea floods and land slide are examples of these procedures. Events are transient and odd and they can catastrophically be described in more than one way.
