Stable modelling in water resources management, on one hand, requires recognizing the relations between the different applications of water and their long-term results and on the other hand taking into account the current ...

Today Land use change is one of the most important challenges facing the agricultural sector, And Conservation of agricultural lands is an important goal worldwide. So the aim of this study was to design a model for the ...

Water consumption has increased in urban areas, so it is important to calculate its tariff. In Iran, Increasing Block Tariffs (IBT) is used to calculate the water tariff. The first disadvantage of this approach is that ...

The integration of urban services is one of the most important achievements of the urban geographic information system (GIS), which will clarify, unify and facilitate services by creating a database in GIS, and it will be ...

Green Entrepreneurship is a growing phenomenon that boosts sustainable investment and economic development along with the conservation of the environment and the observance of the standards. it is a type of entrepreneurship ...

Reduced rainfall, groundwater resource limitations, and undesirable use of it are the main limiting factors of the development of different uses in arid and semi-arid areas. Changes in surface factors have an effective ...

Groundwater has often been considered one of the major sources of drinking and agricultural water, particularly in arid and semiarid regions. In this respect, the present study dealt with a combination of numerical models ...

The velocity of only one point from normal to the wetted perimeter must be known to obtain local shear stress at a point along the wetted perimeter. Then, the local shear stress on the wetted perimeter is calculated using ...

The optimal utilization of dams water resources in order to meet the water needs of different departments is an important problem in the management and engineering of water resources. Evolutionary algorithms have provided ...

Various countermeasures are proposed to control scouring around bridge piers. In the present research, a comprehensive study has been carried out to achieve scouring around two bridges in the north of Iran. The research ...

In this research, an MLP neural network, which has widely been used in geotechnical engineering problems, is selected and trained by defining the stability factor of an earth dam. To training the network, we first specify ...

In the development process of the countries, the wetlands play a significant role in people's well-being by providing the goods and services that are used directly and indirectly. Some examples of these goods include ...

Water is a necessary but scarce input among the inputs used for crop production, so determining its economic value can be a good instrument to improve its management. In this respect, the present study aims to determine ...

Sugar Beet as a sources of human nourishment contains about 30% of sugar consumption in the word. On the other hand, problems encountered in providing human food as well as environmental pollution caused by unbridled human ...

Tehran generates 7000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) daily with 70% of organic component which causes leachate and greenhouse gases generation. Anaerobic digestion (AD), as a natural process, can be a solution. On ...

Evapotranspiration is the most important part of the hydrological cycle, which playsa key role in water resource management, crop yield simulation, and irrigationscheduling. Therefore, developing a cost-effective ...

Throughout the year, a huge volume of the surface running water as well as sewage flow down into the plantations of the south of Tehran which can have detrimental hygienic and environmental impacts. In this study, people's ...

The main objective of the current study was to estimate the demand function forwater in the industrial sector of Zahedan city based on the methodology of dualitypremise. To this end, the trans-log cost function ...

Given the recent droughts, it has become increasingly valuable to plan for water resources management and conservation as well as the protection of local communities. Investigating the trend of water resource changes, ...

Drinking water containing heavy metals above the maximum permissible limits cause potential risk to human health. The aim of this study was to investigate the heavy metals concentrations in groundwater to prevent the risk ...