health and environmental considerations of rooftop catchment systems (case study: aq ghala, golestan province, iran)

Health and environmental considerations of rooftop catchment systems (Case study: Aq Ghala, Golestan Province, Iran)

The world has a long experience of using harvested rainwater from rooftop catchments in urbanized regions. There are also many studies about the technical, health, and environmental details of such systems. The gradual prevalence of rainwater harvesting systems in the country exposes a necessity to determine and define some guidelines and instructions for health and environmental considerations...

Socio-economic considerations of rooftop catchment systems (Case study: Golestan Province, Iran)

Socio-economic assessment of rainwater harvesting systems considered as one of the efficient approaches in water resource management under deficit conditions, leads to a better management practice in the implementation of such systems. This work was aimed at analyzing the socio-economic limitations and potentials of rooftop catchment systems in Golestan province. The methodology was based on fi...

Towards Improvement of Environmental Impact Assessment Methods - A Case Study in Golestan Province, Iran

Environmental researchers in Iran have encountered serious and new challenges about the methods that can adequately respond to research demands posed by the country’s recent rapid economic and social development. On one side, traditional methods of environmental impact assessment (EIA) have been criticized 1 severely by specialists and on the other, theoretical bases and practical conditions fo...

Socio-economic Factors Affecting Acceptance of Livestock and Rangelands Insurance (Case Study: Agh Ghala county, Golestan Province, Iran)

Insurance services and financial compensation are regarded for the consequences of events that may happen or not.Farmers and stakeholders can be benefited from the agricultural and natural resources insurance so that they can attain much more stability in resources management, especially through mitigating the effects of potential and imminent risks. The current research was aimed to determine ...

Determination of Suitable Lands for Sowing Alkaligrass Puccinellia distans (Case Study: Agh-Ghala Rangelands, Golestan Province, Iran)

Annually, 200 ha of Agh Ghala rangelands in Golestan, Iran are under Alkaligrass Puccinella distans's cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. The current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow P. distans in northern rangelands of Agh Ghala Golestan, Iran. Because of the ...

Investigations of Rainwater harvesting system from Rooftop catchment (Case study: babolrood catchment)