during the recent decades, urban management in iran has increasingly confronted numerous challenges due to different kinds of social, cultural, political, executive, financial, and legal factors. the present study is going to specify and analyze the aforementioned challenges in the domain of the urban environment in order to determine how far they have been effective, how they have been priorit...

IT security has become a major issue for organizations as they need to protect their assets, including IT resources, intellectual property and business processes, against security attacks. Disruptions of ITbased business activities can easily lead to economic damage, such as loss of productivity, revenue and

IT security has become a major issue for organizations as they need to protect their assets, including IT resources, intellectual property and business processes, against security attacks. Disruptions of ITbased business activities can easily lead to economic damage, such as loss of productivity, revenue and

Despite our declared era of ‘Big Data,’ we lack information on the flows of energy, water, and materials that support modern societies. These data are essential to understand how ecologies and the labor of people in far flung places supply urban areas, as well as how these resource flows are used by whom, where, and for what purpose. Like other places, the state of California is struggling with...

v * Corresponding author: [email protected] Rapid urban expansion, increased traffi c, ageing infrastructure, greater climatic variability, and the need for enhanced sustainability of urban water resources pose signifi cant challenges to conventional stormwater management. Innovative approaches are needed in order to mitigate the risk of fl ooding, pollution, and aquatic ecosystem degradat...