iran is among the world’s arid and semi-arid regions and its demand for water has been increased due topopulation growth, urbanization and the development the economic sectors (industrial and agricultural). inmany of these regions, the lack of planning and the unauthorized use of resources have led to excessiveexploitation and a lower level of groundwater. the usable groundwater for the country...

Assessing the status of water resources is essential for long-term planning related to and many other needs a country. According climate reports, change on rise in all parts world; however, this phenomenon will have more consequences arid semi-arid regions. The aim study evaluate effects groundwater, surface water, their exchanges Shazand plain Iran, which has experienced significant decline st...

Application of Resilience Concept in the Analysis Basic Resources Security for Shazand Watershed, Markazi Province, Iran

Iran is among the world’s arid and semi-arid regions and its demand for water has been increased due topopulation growth, urbanization and the development the economic sectors (industrial and agricultural). Inmany of these regions, the lack of planning and the unauthorized use of resources have led to excessiveexploitation and a lower level of groundwater. The usable groundwater for the country...

the present study aimed to monitor the land use change in the shazand watershed with different development policies using land use net changes and exchanges in land change modeller (lcm) forperiod of1973to2014and in sub-watersheds scale. in the study period, rangeland area reduced about 380 km2 and rainfed and irrigation farm lands increased successively 100 and 150 km2 in the first and the sec...

the aim of this research was to investigate the effect of index species, astragalusammodendron on the associated plants of agropyron tauri and bromus tomentellus fromdifferent aspects in shazand rangeland in southwest of markazi province. the effects ofspecies density and distribution pattern and then index species on the soil properties werestudied. based on the randomized – systematic method,...