Farshad Amiraslani

University of Ulster

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Deirdre Dragovich

University of Sydney

Cornélia Rumpel

Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris

Ali Darvishi Boloorani

University of Tehran

Lydie‐Stella Koutika

Université Professionnelle d'Afrique

Yasuhito Shirato

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

Jean‐François Soussana

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement

Claire Chenu

AgroParisTech

B. E. Madari

Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation

Arnaud Caiserman

University of Central Asia

J. K. Ladha

Plant (United States)

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University of Tehran

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

University of Oxford

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Chinese Academy of Sciences

University of Maryland, College Park

John Wiley & Sons (United States)

Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

University of Sydney

International Center for Tropical Agriculture

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The role of the 4p1000 initiative in defining research priorities for soil organic carbon under the sustainable development agenda

Cornélia Rumpel Farshad Amiraslani Claire Chenu Maira Alejandra Moreno Garcia Cardenas Benoît Henry

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Carbon fibers

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Combating land degradation and desertification and enhancing food security: towards integrated solutions

Lindsay C. Stringer Mariam Akhtar Schuster María José Marqués Farshad Amiraslani Simone Quatrini

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SPATIAL-TEMPORAL DUST FUSION MODEL FOR INTEGRATION OF MODIS AND WRF-CHEM AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH

Meteorologiya i Gidrologiya (2021)

Mohammad‐Hadi Rezvani Ali Darvishi Boloorani Farshad Amiraslani Azizi Ghasem

Dust storms are common meteorological events appearing in arid and semi-arid regions. Various methods have been developed to calculate aerosol optical depth (AOD) in dust storms studies. The AOD data obtained either from remote sensing measurements or numerical models have their own specific limitations and advantages. In this study, in order to benefit from the advantages of both types of AOD data and generate a fused AOD product with higher spatial and temporal resolutions, the Spatial-Temporal Dust Fusion Model (STDFM) was developed to integrate remote sensing data on AOD and numerical model AOD via simultaneous enhancing of spatial and temporal resolutions from 15 to 3 kilometers and from one day to one hour, respectively. The remote sensing AOD data from MODIS and numerical modeling of AOD from WRF model from 16-20 June, 2012 for the geographical region of Iran were used to verify the applicability and assess the accuracy of the STDFM. An average correlation coefficient of 0.64 was measured between the STDFM-fused AOD and the AOD data retrieved from ground-based visibility. The results affirmed the high accuracy of STDFM in obtaining fused AOD with higher spatial and temporal resolutions.

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10.52002/0130-2906-2021-11-73-88

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Learning from the Past: Lessons from the First United Nations Report on Problems of the Human-Environment

Challenges (2022)

Farshad Amiraslani Andrew Cooper

The 1969 UN Report “Problems of the Human Environment” was a seminal work that first highlighted environmental problems at a global scale. This report underpinned a series of subsequent international summits and conventions of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the subsequent three global conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification. We assessed the report half a century after its publication to track changes in vocabulary and highlight critical lessons that could have been learned. The assessment contains several strengths and weaknesses that are pertinent to modern global-scale analyses. Many issues of that day have declined in importance or been superseded, and several major environmental problems (including climate change and plastic pollution) were not foreseen. Most of the report’s predictions proved to be much more conservative than proved by reality (a criticism that has also been levelled at contemporary IPCC reports). The report, however, did forewarn of global pandemics and stimulated thinking on a global scale that led to identification of the current climate crisis.

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10.3390/challe13020044

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Participatory approach in Aquifer Storage and Recovery management in Arid zones, does it work?

Groundwater for Sustainable Development (2020)

M. Bagheri M Kholghi Seiyed Mossa Hosseini Farshad Amiraslani Abdolhossein Hoorfar

10.1016/j.gsd.2020.100368

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Assessing the changes of mangrove ecosystem services value in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone

Ocean & Coastal Management (2019)

Qadir Ashournejad Farshad Amiraslani Majid Kiavarz Ara Toomanian

10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2019.104838

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Exporting electricity – a review of Iran’s experience on water and energy development within a regional perspective

International Journal of Green Energy (2023)

Farshad Amiraslani Deirdre Dragovich

ABSTRACTABSTRACTIn developing countries, electricity and water supply are strategic challenges arising from growing demand due to increasing populations and modernization of households . This review paper focuses on Iran as a dryland country that has strived to maintain water resources, generate electricity for domestic purposes and even export electricity. It addresses a scientific gap in the existing literature that has paid limited attention to the intertwined geographical, geopolitical, infrastructure and workforce elements in Iran's development of electricity generation. This review also seeks to link domestic energy production to politically focused regional considerations. It highlights the factors and policies enabling Iran to export its generated electricity. Water conservation and energy generation/electricity can be viewed as complementary when considered within the scenario of hydropower which depends on the presence of large dams. Iran's emphasis on economic advancement in earlier years involved the development of water and energy infrastructure which, decades later, provided opportunities for exporting electricity to neighboring countries. The earlier sole focus on economic development has gradually shifted toward a greater concern for sustainable economic development. Both environmental and political issues are relevant if Iran wants to continue maintaining its water resources, generating hydropower, and exporting its electricity in the regionKEYWORDS: electricity exportIranhydropowergeopoliticsclimate changesustainability AcknowledgementsWe thank Arnaud Caiserman for his contribution to data collection and the illustrations in an earlier version of the manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Electricity retailing

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10.1080/15435075.2023.2222169

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Quantitative assessment of forest ecosystem stress caused by cement plant pollution using in situ measurements and Sentinel-2 satellite data in a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (2020)

Ali Asharfi Yousef Erfanifard Farshad Amiraslani Ali Darvishi Boloorani Alijafar Mousivand

Anthropogenic industrial dust decreases productivity and slows down the growth of plants. Quantifying the effects of industrial dust on vegetation and determining the distance over which factories scatter dust are of paramount importance for biodiversity conservation and sustaining ecosystem services. This study aims at quantifying the effect of dust emitted by the Neka cement plant (NCP), Mazandaran province, northern Iran, on the surrounding Hyrcanian forests based on an analysis of the Leaf Area Index (LAI) retrieved from Sentinel-2 imagery. An Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) was used to quantify the concentrations of cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), silicon (Si) and zinc (Zn) in leaves of the dominant Chestnut-leaved Oak (Quercus castaneifolia). A feed-forward neural network algorithm and field measurements were used to retrieve the leaf area index (LAI) from Sentinel-2 data with a RMSE of 0.42 (m2/m2). MODIS-NDVI and EVI time series spanning 17 years (2000 to 2017) were analysed to ensure the independence of the variation in the condition of the vegetation from drought or other environmental factors. The results indicate that Sentinel-2 data can be used to map degradation due to pollution from the cement plant and quantify the effect of the dust spatially. Dust from the cement plant (dust source) was carried approximately 4700 meters in the direction of the prevailing wind. A significant correlation of 0.849 was recorded between LAI and distance from the NCP. It is concluded that dust from the NCP had adverse ecological effects on the neighbouring forest ecosystems recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

10.14712/23361964.2020.4

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Comparison of soil moisture retrieval algorithms based on the synergy between SMAP and SMOS-IC

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (2018)

Mohsen Ebrahimi-Khusfi Seyed Kazem Alavipanah Saeid Hamzeh Farshad Amiraslani Najmeh Neysani Samany‬

Albedo (alchemy)

10.1016/j.jag.2017.12.005

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Application of two fuzzy models using knowledge-based and linear aggregation approaches to identifying flooding-prone areas in Tehran

Natural Hazards (2019)

Mahmoud Rezaei Farshad Amiraslani Najmeh Neysani Samani Seyed Kazem Alavipanah

Natural hazard

10.1007/s11069-019-03816-9

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