there are two approaches regarding environmental changes. one of the is ignoring them and continuing present trend in future, and the other is identifying these changes and preparing environmental management program in order to control their negative impacts and plan for the improvement of environmental condition. anzali international wetland is one of the protected wetlands in iran which is in...

Responses to a contingent valuation (CV) survey are used to examine how homeowners distinguish among five environmental orientations and how demographic characteristics, political outlook, and perception of environmental quality relate to particular orientations. High percentages of homeowners somewhat identify with all environmental orientations, but to a lesser extent with those that imply ac...

miankaleh biosphere reserve it has a set of marine and land ecosystems an area about 67349 ha and is located in the north of iran and southeast farthermost of caspian sea. the diversity of the natural characteristics of caspian region is the cause of diversity in the habitats, and has resulted in nesting of most plant species in the germinative range. regarding the importance of coastal ecosyst...

it is commonly recognized that knowledge is the only source of core competence of environmental projects in the knowledge based companies, but the productivity rate of knowledge workers is always low. based on knowledge workers’ characteristics, in this paper, we seek to identify knowledge workers factors influencing on the environmental projects risk management success (eprm), then knowledg...

The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the authors and should not be attributed in any manner to Asian Development Bank (ADB) or the countries it represents. The map that accompanies the text has been prepared solely for the convenience of the reader. The designations and presentation of material in them do not imply the expression of any op...

Recent environmental changes play a role in the dramatic increase in the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRFs) such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemias and the metabolic syndrome in industrialized countries. Therefore, identifying environmental characteristics that are associated with risk factors is critical to develop more effective public health intervention...

in order to study the characteristics of employee training system in two large media organizations, namely irib and bbc and identification and comparison of common and different aspects between them, in the direction of appropriate understanding of existing dysfunctions and bottlenecks in irib employee training system, a research was conducted by utilizing descriptive-survey method with compara...

This study used the publication Storm Data to compile a climatology of flash floods reported in the Binghamton, NY (BGM) County Warning Area (CWA) of the National Weather Service (NWS). This work revealed diurnal and seasonal trends in flash flood frequency across the CWA. Also evident was a spatial disparity in the number of flash flood reports in different portions of the CWA. In some cases, ...