Water management in Iran: what is causing the looming crisis?

K Madani - Journal of environmental studies and sciences, 2014 - Springer
Despite having a more advanced water management system than most Middle Eastern
countries, similar to the other countries in the region, Iran is experiencing a serious water …

The cultivation and domestication of wheat and barley in Iran, brief review of a long history

F Ghahremaninejad, E Hoseini, S Jalali - The Botanical Review, 2021 - Springer
Wheat and barley are among the most important staple foods, originally exploited, cultivated
and domesticated in the Near East, in places between the Eastern shores of the …

Groundwater qanat potential mapping using frequency ratio and Shannon's entropy models in the Moghan watershed, Iran

SA Naghibi, HR Pourghasemi, ZS Pourtaghi… - Earth Science …, 2015 - Springer
The purpose of current study is to produce groundwater qanat potential map using
frequency ratio (FR) and Shannon's entropy (SE) models in the Moghan watershed …

A comparison between ten advanced and soft computing models for groundwater qanat potential assessment in Iran using R and GIS

SA Naghibi, HR Pourghasemi, K Abbaspour - Theoretical and applied …, 2018 - Springer
Considering the unstable condition of water resources in Iran and many other countries in
arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater studies are very important. Therefore, the aim of …

A system dynamics model of smart groundwater governance

AA Barati, H Azadi, J Scheffran - Agricultural Water Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Groundwater is one of the most important and vital resources in the world. In current
decades, increased water demand and pollution threaten groundwater availability. Yet …

Investigating socio-economic and hydrological sustainability of ancient Qanat water systems in arid regions of central Iran

B Abadi, S Sadeghfam, A Ehsanitabar… - Groundwater for …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Qanat water systems (QWSs), the ancient water engineering systems in Iran
belonging to the very distant past, have harvested groundwater from drainages to convey it …

A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges

SB Ajjur, HM Baalousha - Water International, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The study critically reviews the application, management and challenges of managed
aquifer recharge (MAR) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through a survey …

CORONA high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery for change detection assessment of natural hazard risk and urban growth in El Alto/La Paz in Bolivia, Santiago …

A Fekete - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Urban growth and natural hazard events are continuous trends and reliable monitoring is
demanded by organisations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the …

The technology, management, and culture of water in ancient Iran from prehistoric times to the Islamic Golden Age

M Saatsaz, A Rezaei - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite Iran's longstanding reputation for sustainable water management, the country
currently faces mounting water-related challenges caused by population growth, industrial …

OSL dating of the Miam Qanat (KĀRIZ) system in NE Iran

M Fattahi - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2015 - Elsevier
This article presents the first direct absolute dating method of a Qanat system obtained
through optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of grains in spoil heaps, using …