TY - JOUR ID - 70567 TI - Strategic Planning, Based on Environmental Spatial Assessment, Using SWOT and GIS to Locate Sustainable Industrial Areas (Case Study: Tehran Province) JO - Pollution JA - POLL LA - en SN - 2383-451X AU - Hoveidi, H. AU - Nasehi, S. AU - Imanpour, Namin AU - Nohegar, A. AD - School of Environment, college of Engineering, University of Tehran, P. O. Box 14155-6135, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 569 EP - 583 KW - Site selection KW - Industrial area KW - Fuzzy KW - Strategic Planning KW - MCDM DO - 10.22059/poll.2018.260564.464 N2 - Unbalanced distribution of population in a country like Iran as well as accelerating urbanization and environmental degradation, both arising from incorrect location of industrial areas, are two problems that require appropriate industrial development policies to get resolved. Considering the expansion of industrial areas along with their role in contamination of the environment, it is necessary to develop strategies to improve environmental performance. The purpose of this study is to provide strategies for establishment of industrial areas, based on environmental spatial assessment, using SWOT technique and GIS. In this method, once the spatial data are mapped and analyzed with GIS software, leading to determination of effective factors for location of industrial areas and their, the maps of such effective factors can be prepared. After weighing effective layers on location, based on the AHP model, the GIS software capabilities have been used to merge and overlap the maps and the industrial areas location map are prepared. The map has been classified in five classes (very poor, poor, moderate, good, and very good) and finally, based on the final map and SWOT analysis, optimal strategies have been developed to reduce environmental degradations. The location analysis with integrated GIS and SWOT method is effective for providing optimal strategies. More accurate results of this study show that the study area is located in "defensive" position and the authorized areas to locate the industrial areas in the "very good" class are over 240,191.9 hectares large, being mostly in the south and southwest of Tehran. UR - https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_70567.html L1 - https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_70567_ae7c3ee20fb0415390e61318e4f59085.pdf ER -