Desertification in Iran was recognized between the 1930s and 1960s. This paper traces
Iran's attempts to reclaim desertified areas, evaluates the anti-desertification approaches …

Increasing energy demand, together with environmental concerns, results in a significant
tendency toward the research and development of renewable systems and particularly solar …

Understanding the trends of reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and its influential
meteorological variables due to climate change is required for studying the hydrological …

Over the past two centuries, Iranian agricultural policy and practice have been developed
dramatically, mostly in response to population growth, gradual improvements in technology …

The potential evapotranspiration was estimated using different mass transfer-based models
and was compared with the Food and Agriculture Organization Penman–Monteith model …

Background Deserts are the main sources of emitted dust, and are highly responsive to wind
erosion. Low content of soil moisture and lack of vegetation cover lead to fine particle's …

Due to the shortcomings of hierarchical natural resource governance, theorists have been
increasing focus on the decentralization of power to local organizations. Although …

We propose an approach for classifying land zones into categories indicating their resilience
against desertification. Environmental management support is provided by a multi-criteria …

Stakeholders are individuals and organizations, permanent or on an ad hoc, who are
involved or affected by the project's execution or completion. Projects involve various …

Iran faces environmental challenges such as erosion and extreme events, namely droughts
and floods. These phenomena have frequently affected the country over the past decades …