University of Tehran Journal of Range and Watershed Managment 5044-2008 68 1 2015 05 22 Land Use Optimization for Soil Erosion Minimization and Pure Income Maximization in the Part of Taleghan Watershed Land Use Optimization for Soil Erosion Minimization and Pure Income Maximization in the Part of Taleghan Watershed 181 195 53894 10.22059/jrwm.2015.53894 FA Mehdi Vatakhah Associate Professor, Department of Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources, Tarbiat Modares University Mohsen Mohsenisaravi •; Professor, Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran Hasan Ahmadi Professor, Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran Journal Article 2010 01 02 Land use optimization is one of the suitable methods for soil conservation. The present research with objective of land use optimization for soil erosion minimization and pure income maximization was conducted in the part of Taleghan Watershed which comprises 80427.23 ha in area. To achieve this propose, area, erosion rate and net income value of each land uses according to requiring standards of each land uses area was extracted. Then, limitations and two objective functions were determined and optimization problem was solved by using ADBASE software. The results revealed that the optimization decrease 6.99 percent of erosion rate(6.28 ton/ha/year to 5.84 ton/ha/year) and 4.65 percent of pure income(118174.38 to 112681.02 million Rials). Also, the results proposed that drylands farming are changed to garden and orchard and rangelands.     Land use optimization is one of the suitable methods for soil conservation. The present research with objective of land use optimization for soil erosion minimization and pure income maximization was conducted in the part of Taleghan Watershed which comprises 80427.23 ha in area. To achieve this propose, area, erosion rate and net income value of each land uses according to requiring standards of each land uses area was extracted. Then, limitations and two objective functions were determined and optimization problem was solved by using ADBASE software. The results revealed that the optimization decrease 6.99 percent of erosion rate(6.28 ton/ha/year to 5.84 ton/ha/year) and 4.65 percent of pure income(118174.38 to 112681.02 million Rials). Also, the results proposed that drylands farming are changed to garden and orchard and rangelands.     https://jrwm.ut.ac.ir/article_53894_58e9b0765ef52aee2a0ad635cd1ae679.pdf