One of the most important  natural hazards which threatens  the roads in mountainous regions are hillslope instabilities. This phenomenon is more frequent while  the roads are under construction.  Indentification of dangerous and susceptible areas to mass movement is especially important in order to implement some measures to control these natural phenomena.In this study mass movement hazard zo...

Worldwide, metropolises of today are often prone to damage from natural hazards by various reasons. One of the slope instabilities that causes financial and human losses annually on socio-economics and the environment are landslides. There are tens of landslides that occur in different parts of the country each year, which threaten more residential areas, roads and facilities. In this study we ...

During recent years, landslide incidence has been increased in different areas with different reasons like change in land use and road introduction. It is necessary to research and survey that’s creation factors and identity sensitive areas to prohibit of probable damages. For this reason, This study were carried out in Northern of Tehran watershed with about 42.14 km2 area. In order to landsli...

  Identifying areas with different potential to landslide occurrence is one of the primitive actions in natural resources management. In view of importance of recognizing appropriate metho d to estimate landslide, in this research, the efficiency of two methods of landslide hazard zonation including methods of Mora and Varson and Multivariate regression were compared . In this research, first, ...

rivers and runoff have always been of interest to human beings. in order to make use of the proper water resources, human societies, industrial and agricultural centers, etc. have usually been established near rivers. as the time goes on, these societies developed, and therefore water resources were extracted more and more. consequently, conditions of water quality of the rivers experienced rap...