Geography and Environmental Sustainability

Razi University | razi · Department of Geography

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Vulnerability context is one of the basic concepts of sustainable livelihood framework. The vulnerability contexts, including shocks, trends, and seasonal variability affect the rangeland users' livelihoods. This study aims to assess the vulnerability contexts of rangeland users in three villages...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The area under study (Tehran gas line 3) is one of the most important and sensitive areas in terms of threats to gas supply due to the instability of domains and tectonic activities. In this research, to achieve the research objectives, different data from different sources and different criteria...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Accurate assessment of forest above-ground biomass is essential for sustainable forest management. Estimation of forest biomass is necessary for studies such as estimation of greenhouse gases, carbon stored in forest resources and climate change models. Also, the forest biomass represents the pro...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article The sustainable development of rural areas is one of the main programs of governments, which has been receiving attention for a long time. Sustainable development in villages can bring a lot of benefits in different economic, social, political, etc. dimensions. The main goal of the current resear...

For rural ecological biodiversity, environmental governance was raised. Although the law was also proposed by the Governors of the World General Assembly of the Environment, it has faced problems due to the development pattern above and several centuries in the country of rural environmental governance. The purpose of the present study is to invest...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Today, the optimal pattern of urban growth is one of the important topics of sustainable urban development. Therefore, the efforts of urban planners are to replace desirable urban patterns instead of sprawl, horizontal, unplanned, and unstable patterns. Therefore, to determine the spatiotemporal...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Nowadays, natural disasters threaten human societies. In the case of lack of awareness and readiness, irreparable damage threatens to human life, including residential areas and other dimensions, economic, social, institutional, and physical-environmental. As a result, communities have different...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Sustainable land management is considered a sustainable way to combat the threat of various forms of land destruction and erosion. However, there is little information on the factors affecting the household's decision to implement sustainable land management practices. In the present study, the f...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Modeling habitat network connections in biodiversity conservation planning is one of the global priorities of landscape ecology and ecological security. Destruction of landscape structure by creating disjointed habitats and disconnection in landscape patches leads to disturbance in ecological fun...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Physical security in residential areas and neighborhoods has led to an increase in the quantitative and qualitative level of well-being and provides the basis for the formation of residents' interaction in the urban environment. However, usually in urban environments, sustainable housing plays th...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems and living areas in the world, one of the most obvious beauty and masterpieces of creation. As an essential part of the global ecosystem, these wetlands have played an important role in preventing or reducing the intensity of floods, feeding under...

Article Info ABSTRACT Article type: Research Article Today, air pollution has tightened the air for the residents of metropolises. Air pollution is one of the most harmful pollutants for the environment especially for humans. In this study, based on daily data, concurrent and widespread air pollution in five selected metropolises in the northern ha...