Multiple criteria analysis of Spatial information for a preliminary assessment of the landslide Susceptibility for environmental protection in the Zagreb Region based on geodynamic network

'Land' plays multidimensional role in maintaining many global processes, therefore sustainable planning and management of land resources is an important issue at the global forum. The process of land resource planning and associated decision-making invariably involves multiple objectives, multiple criteria and multiple social interests and preferences. Such complexity necessitates a systematic approach to the decision-making process to accommodate the multiplicity and multi dimensionalities of the problem to improve the reasonability of decisions and to justify the actions to be taken. The objective of this study is to perform a preliminary assessment of the landslide susceptibility for enviroment protection in the City of Zagreb. A geographic information system (GIS) database was compiled based on data from topographical and geological maps. Weight of evidence, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and fuzzy logic methods, as well as hybrid methods, were used to establish the rating of classed for each factor, weigting for the factors, and to combine multiple factor layers into landslide-susceptibility maps. The results recognize relative weights between the influential factors and promote the real efficiency on City of Zagreb hillsides disaster can be important references for establishing the evaluation model.