Abstract

The destruction of the habitats as the most important danger is a comprehensive and ‎all-embracing issue among the major threatening factors of biodiversity in the country ‎which often occurs due to the construction and development. This study aims to ‎investigate the possibility of promoting the Miami area in the Miami Township, ‎Semnan province, in terms of extensive recreational capacity. For this purpose, by ‎studying the criteria and conditions for the promotion of the regions, as well as ‎considering the conditions in the region, it became clear that this region has the ‎potential to become an extensive recreational area. Also, in continuation of the ‎research, the region was divided into extensive recreation areas, using Analytic ‎Hierarchical Analysis method and criteria such as slope, altitude, the density of ‎vegetation, distance from communication, distance from the city, distance from ‎sensitive habitat, distance from river and geology. The Expert Choice software was ‎used to weigh the criteria and ArcGIS software was used to map the layers. The results ‎showed that 38.2% (14206 hectares) had a high or very high potential for an extensive ‎recreation in the region‎‎.