Analysis of Pollutions Resulted from Jobs in Isfahan City

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The outcomes of development of urbanization as pollution of air, water and urban environment are great threats to the health and safety of urban residents. Nowadays, urban areas as centers of population and economic activities show high concentrations of pollutants; so that, inconvenient locations of irksome and pollutant jobs in metropolitans such as Isfahan city have led to serious threats to the health and tranquility of citizens. So, identification and efficient ordering of pollutant and irksome jobs is critical issue in urban management. In this paper, it has been analyzed the some kinds of pollutions -including air pollution, disturbing noise, tremble, refuse aggregation and chemical contamination- resulted from jobs in Isfahan city. The method of this research is analytic-causal, whose required data has been gathered by field work. Ordering priorities of pollutant jobs and workplaces have been determined through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Expert Choice software. The result of this study shows that the units of car repair shop, body repair shop, Cabinet & canal making, car oil replacement, carpenter’s workshop, Battery cell manufacture, fruit & vegetable market, and foundry are in worse conditions; so, they are proposed as first priorities to order plan.

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