The industrial state site selection for urban and
industrial equipment’s establishment is tied to some limiting
and strengthening factors. Increasingly, the relationships
between environmental concerns and industrial, social and
political affairs as well as rapid growth of the potential
changes rise up regional and local system’s complexity. The
conditions of different areas in our country indicate that we
should consider environmental planning topics more than
previous. There are different methods for site selection
however using multicriteria methods are more preferred. In
this study we investigated about the second industrial area’s
site selection in Germi where is located in the Ardebil
province, in Iran. Totally seven criteria including average
annual temperature, slope, water resources, roads, landuse,
residential areas and geological fault, were mapped using
Arc GIS 9.3. Meanwhile we used Analytical Hierarchical
Process (AHP) for map’s weighting. The preferred areas
were located after field work and software analysis and
considering economic, social and environmental conditions
such as land ownership value and access. Based on
infrastructural facilities existence and short distance to
Germi city, the first preference was selected.
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