Development of Makran beaches and its environmental pollution in the Oman Sea

Abstract

Introduction: Makran's rich coasts from Jask to Goater, including coastal promontories, it is more than 600 square kilometers, which is one of the five strategic areas of the world. The importance of the Oman Sea to the world in the fields of transportation, energy supply, huge mineral resources and environmental balance is evident. Whenever there is talk of environmental problems in the waters of southern Iran, all attention has been focused on the persian Gulf and less on the Oman sea, So that we are faced with scarce resources.
Materials & Methods: In this research, using the reports of the general environmental protection departments of the coastal provinces and a comprehensive list of environmental criteria, they have been selected as the final list for decision-making, so in this regard, after using the opinions and evaluations of a group of experts Delphi was also used in order to obtain the relative and final weight of each of these factors by entering the values of preferences into the Expert Choice software.

Results: The obtained results indicate that the factor of infrastructural development with 44.5% had the most impact on the biological threats of Makran beaches, and the pollution of the four quays with 25.1% had the most impact among the infrastructure pollution criteria as one of the important environmental risk in the study area.

Conclusion: According to the surveys, the application of environmental laws and regulations is listed as the most important measure to eliminate environmental threats. Of course, according to the study, the development of the region has been done without evaluating the environmental effects.