The environmental effects of Uromieh lake road

Subject Areas : Geopolitic

نادر Habibzadeh ¹ (ندارد)
منصور Badrifar ² (ندارد)

Received: 2015-01-14 Accepted : 2015-01-14 Published : 2005-07-23

Keywords: Uromieh lake, Shahied Kalantary road, environmental impacts,

Abstract :

Uromieh lake, located in the interface of West Azarbaijan and East Azarbaijanprovinces, is one the unique habitats in all around the world creating breathtaking andpicturesque landscape in this area. The instruction of a suitable road, consideringenvironmental issues, can turn this region to one of the tourist attraction centers inIran. By the way, apart from the foregoing advantage this proceeding will facilitatetransportation between capital cities of two important provinces, namely WestAzarbaijan and East Azarbaijan thereby pave the way for the progress of this region.However even though, considering the vulnerable and sensitive ecosystems, theimplementation of this project will result in some deleterious effects from theviewpoint of environmental and social-economic aspects. Therefore, environmentalimpact assessment of this project is really inevitable. In this research theenvironmental threats related to this project along with the effects of Uromieh lakewatershed on the construction of this road have been examined.