Abstract Growing agricultural and domestic demand exacerbates water shortages globally, creating substantial environmental challenges, especially in lakes wetlands ecosystems. This paper presents a stationary policy to restore sustain the level natural using new version of hedging rule that accounts for time-dependent allocation municipal sectors under different climate change projections. The ...

The Lake Urmia and its satellite wetlands have been selected as a demonstration site for the United Nations Development Program / Global Environment Facility / Department of Environment Conservation of Iranian Wetlands Project. This project aims to demonstrate reduction of the major threats of this wetland protected area coordinated through an integrated management plan. A choice experiment was...

Limited water resources with uneven distribution in addition to the growing demands are the main challenges of the water governance in Iran. The Government has planned several water resources development project and due to their complex technical, socio-economical, and environmental outcomes, comprehensive evaluation is needed. To select more adaptive and accountable projects, suitable group de...

Alireza Asem 1,*,†, Amin Eimanifar 2,*,† and Michael Wink 3 1 Institute of Evolution & Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao 266003, China 2 Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory (HBREL), Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Steinmetz Hall, Natural Area Dr., P.O. Box 110620, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA 3 Institute of Pharmacy and ...

The ongoing changes affecting Lake Urmia (NW Iran) are revealed by the lake water level decrease (~7 m in last 20 yr) that was attributed to natural and anthropogenic causes but exact impact of these factors on state is still not identified. Indeed, lack detailed record environmental evolution past limits understanding actual future processes. Our project aims obtain a high-temporal resolution ...