This study uses an Integrated Agent-Centered (IAC) framework to investigate the socio-
psychological drivers of Iranian farmers' unsustainable groundwater management practices …

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes have been one of the most important and
persistent factors recently causing changes in the Earth's land. The present study aimed to …

Drought is a recurrent and temporary natural occurrence causing a great damage to human
life and natural ecosystems. In this research, the standardized precipitation index (SPI) was …

Climate change and urbanization along with uncontrolled development in less developed
countries have led to an increased ecosystems' thermal environment. Some factors such as …

Today, the heat islands phenomenon is considered one of the newly emerging
environmental hazards caused by the land use change and the expansion of urbanization …

In the present study, the existing land uses in the Minab plain were simulated using the CA-
Markov combined method. For this purpose, land use maps for the years 2000, 2010 and …

An accurate assessment of the carbon changes in different ecosystems may be used as key
indicator in estimating changes in land degradation at a global scale. The goal of this study …

Background and Objective Land degradation is one of the destructive phenomena that
threaten the stability and security of ecosystems, especially in arid areas. Land degradation …

Extended AbstractIntroduction: Groundwater is an essential resource for agriculture in all
areas, including arid and semi-arid regions. It also plays an important role in the social and …

Unbalanced development of different land use/cover in basins without considering the
contribution of all components, can cause serious damage to the stability of the entire basin …