Mashhad City, according to the latest official statistics of the country is the second populated city after Tehran and is the biggest metropolis in the east of Iran. Considering the rapid growth of the population over the last three decades, the city’s development area has been extended, significantly. This significant expansion has impacted natural lands on suburb and even some parts e.g. rang...

Compared to surface water, groundwater resources are the primary source of water supply in arid and semi-arid regions of Iran, hence the importance of the management of these resources .  In this regard, we assessed the effects of landuse changes on the qualitative and quantitative status of groundwater resources in Eshtehard region, Iran. Through processing and analyzing the satellite images, ...

Caspian Sea coastline in the Mazandaran province has been altered as a result of activities of developers attracted to aesthetic and coastal recreational aspects of forest ecosystems. Advances in GIS and RS techniques, has made it possible to study the coastal areas for better management. Hence, the present study was undertaken to determine land cover changes via applying cross classificat...

The world is witnessing a dramatic shift of settlement pattern from rural to urban population, particularly in developing countries. The rapid Addis Ababa urbanization reflects this global phenomenon and the subsequent socio-economic and environmental impacts, are causing massive public uproar and political instability. The objective of this study was to use remotely sensed Landsat data to iden...

XVI. yüzyılda Vilayet-i Rum’da bulunan Uluyörük cemaatlerinin temel geçim kaynakları hayvancılıktı. Bu sebeple ziraî faaliyetler ikinci plandaydı. mensubu yalnızca birkaç cemaat geçinmek maksadıyla hayvancılıkla birlikte faaliyette bulunuyordu. Diğer cemaatler ise kendi ihtiyaçlarına yönelik ve basit tarzda tarımla meşgul oluyorlardı. Yapılan tarzdaki faaliyetlerin esası hububata dayanıyordu. y...

storage (e.g., Wayburn et al. 2000 and Perez-Garcia et al. 2004). Urban forests also retain some capacity to store carbon in shade trees and associated landscaping and play an important role in conserving energy in home and business heating and cooling (McPherson and Simpson 1999, Nowak and Crane 2002). Alig (2003) suggests that a mixture of forest-based greenhouse gas reduction strategies nati...