Geographical Information Systems for the appointment, the exploitation and the sustainable development of rangelands in semi-mountainous regions

Rangelands of semi-mountainous regions are connected with the agricultural and economic growth of inhabitants in Greek countryside. The appointment, the exploitation and the sustainable development of these wealth-producing sources should become main concern of the environmental and the land-planning policy, which is practised by the responsible comities. The residents of province are unbreakably tied up with the meadows, which constitute one from the sovereign environments in which they developed their social, economic and cultural activities. Our economic identity that is based on a big degree in the farmers requires electing, to develop and to protect the meadows of semi-mountainous regions. In the frames of this work became an effort with the use of geographic systems of information (ArcView 3.0 and ArcGIS 8.3), to be recorded, to elect itself and is proposed a possibility of sustainable development of meadows extents of semi-mountainous region at Krousia of Prefecture Kilkis. The Prefecture Kilkis is a frontier prefecture of Central Macedonia with a lot of meadows, which they are extended in semi-mountainous regions and they present from a lot of use types up to they are abandoned. We selected this region because the last decades are observed reduction of native of population, so that remain these unexploited extents. Our fundamental objective was the connection of geographic information with the descriptive information as photographs, comments, texts, with such way in order that the access and the recovery of information are easy even for inexperienced users of computers. The descriptive information that exists in the data base of system has such structure and organisation that is approachable with simple ways, while is given the possibility of briefing and extension of application under the suitable support in Hardware and Software.