Managing forests has been demonstrated to be an efficient strategy for fragmenting fuels and reducing fire spread rates severity. However, large-scale analyses examine operational aspects of implementing different forest management scenarios meet governance objectives are nonexistent many Mediterranean countries. In this study we described optimization framework build that leverages simulation,...

BACKGROUND Forests occur across diverse biomes, each of which shows a specific composition of plant communities associated with the particular climate regimes. Predicted future climate change will have impacts on the vulnerability and productivity of forests; in some regions higher temperatures will extend the growing season and thus improve forest productivity, while changed annual precipitati...

The purpose of the present study was the simulation of climate change effects on groundwater resources in Iran by using the dynamic systems approach. The approach was performed through system dynamics modeling process including problem explanation, system description, model development, model testing, and the use of the model for policy analysis. The impact of the application of various exogeno...