Reviewing the Different Methods of Land Quality Assessment as a Tool for Land Management Monitoring and Proposing a Model for Iran Conditions

One of the concepts which have entered the development literature and still continue to grow is sustainable land management which, in turn, entails other concepts such as land management monitoring and subsequently land quality assessment. This paper is aimed at reviewing and categorizing methods used in land quality assessment as a tool for monitoring sustainable land management and finally providing a model for assessing land quality concerning natural and managerial conditions in Iran. The study was carried out as a library research by reviewing the literature in the field of land quality assessment and a qualitative analysis. The results show that, in the world, the methods of land quality assessment are of two kinds: one based on detailed intrinsic biological data and the other based on assessing extrinsic human activities. Finally, the Degradation Model used in EIA has been proposed for assessing land quality in Iran.