The lack of water in arid and semi-arid areas has become a serious crisis, endangering living conditions. Sloping lands in the geographical and natural areas of Central Province have always been critical areas as sources of sediment production and erosion. Meanwhile, these areas provide valuable capacity for productive employment and conservation of water and soil resources through the construc...

Nowadays, desertification is one of the ecological crises of the world. To control Desertification, having a clear understanding of its factors and processes is necessary. KALMAND Protected Area region of Yazd with area of 71269.37 Hectares’ was considered to evaluate current Condition of desertification using ICD. Iranian Classification of Desertification (ICD) was presented by M. Ekhtes...

The purpose of this study is to accurately measure the watershed potential for constructing rainwater harvesting structures. To carry out this research, the DEM digital-elevation model layer was used to prepare slope, hydrological soil groups and land use maps in the Arc GIS 10.3 software. The drainage density map was prepared by combining the DEM layer, topographic map, drainage density and hy...

Comparison of the land suitability variations among the soil map units in viewpoint of pedodiversity indices may provide a good assessment of the soil mapping precision. The main objective of this study was to assess the significance of functional pedodiversity thorough two detailed map units for irrigated wheat and potato for class and subclass levels of suitability in the Faradonbeh plain, us...

seismic retrofit strategies have been developed in the past few decades following the introduction of new seismic provisions and the availability of advanced materials and methods. it can be observed that new approaches to deal with more lateral forces are more innovative and more energy absorbent. in line with this, there is a growing trend toward the use of steel shear walls as a system with ...