Sustainable Utilization Of Mino Island By Conservation Zoning

The Establishment of conservation zone or protected areas in small islands is an effort to sustainable management of these areas. To do so, using systematic analysis, the capability of Mino Island with an area about 27 square kilometers is south west of Iran for Conservation and ecotourism purposes were demonstrated. Evaluation of island was conducted using Salm and Clark method in 4 environmental homogenous units which recognized via systematic analysis. Therefore 5 criteria including social, economic, regional, pragmatic and ecological and 34 sub criteria were applied. The result indicated that from 4studied zones,2 zones had higher capability for both conservation and ecotourism. With regard to limited resources of Minoo Island, an integrated management was suggested in which both sustainable protection and development could be achieved in the long term.

کلیدواژه ها:

Conservation zone ، Ecotourism ، Small Island ، land capability ، Minoo Island ، systematic analysis ، Salm and Clark Method