Groundwater Distribution in Urban Settlement

Urban settlement transitions

Urban growth dynamics attracts the efforts of scientists from many different disciplines with objectives ranging from theoretical understanding to the development of carefully tuned realistic models that can serve as planning and policy tools. Theoretical models are often abstract and of limited applied value while most applied models yield little theoretical understanding. Here we present a ma...

Assessment of groundwater recharge in urban areas

Article history:Received 23 July 2013Received in revised form 30 October 2013Accepted 30 October 2013Available online xxxx

Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution in Urban Catchments

Groundwater pollution assessment in urban areas of Qom City

Nowadays, it is vital to pay attention more seriously to the urban environmental risks because of its effects on citizens' lives. One of these problems is groundwater pollution which threatens much valuable water resources. Drinking water in Qom City is provided from different resources, such as watersheds and water wells which are located within the city. Although there is a shortage of water ...

Planning for sites having ability to temporary settlement in urban scale in AHP method in Qom

Background and objective: The necessity of pre-disaster reconstruction planning is obvious since Iran is located in the Alpine-Himalayas seismic belt as well as according to several earthquake experiments in different urban and rural regions. Qom is one of the high risk zones in Iran (code 2800). On the other hand, there aren’t any experiments for temporary settlement after earthquake in conce...