The digital designing for the development of mountainous areas
In the crack of dawn of the new century the development necessity of the pseudoalpine mountainous areas in Greece “push” the scientists to register them and then to elaborate the “raw” material in order to digital design them. The alpine mountain area development in order to gain financial benefits for the citizens and to follow the beginning of the everlasting productivity (Living Development), it is necessary to select, analyze and elaborate complicate and heterogeneous information. The development of today in Geographical Information System (GIS) permit the design of the economic development in the mountainous area with parallel creation of alternative suggestion and solution for the sustainability considering the rational and environmental criteria. This study concerns the pseudoalpine areas (Samarina – Smolikas) with a special ecological, geological and economical interest. The knowledge of the distribute quantity needs and quality information, let the rural elevation and the digital design for the mountainous area’s development based on: the high zone; the vegetation species; the animal species; the rivulet and the tributary river; petrification and the general soil geology; road net joint; the number of the nearest villagers and etc. With the digital design that take place with the help of GIS, fixed alternative proposal and solutions which we believe that they can help in taking decisions for the development types like pseudoalpine rangelands.
Laboratory of Mechanical Science and Topography, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment, School of Geotechnical Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (226), 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Keywords:Digital design, sustainability, mountainous areas, environmental criteria, Samarina - Smolikas
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Book:RANGE SCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS - Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Rangeland Congress in Karpenissi, 4-6 September 2002 (Edited by: Panagiotis D. Platis, Athanasios I. Sfougaris, Thomas G. Papachristou, Alexandrow G. Tsiontsis)