40-years of Lake Urmia restoration research: Review, synthesis and next steps

M Parsinejad, DE Rosenberg, YAG Ghale… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Public concern over environmental issues such as ecosystem degradation is high. However,
restoring coupled human-natural systems requires integration across many science …

Water allocation in transboundary river basins under water scarcity: a cooperative bargaining approach

DM Degefu, W He, L Yuan, JH Zhao - Water resources management, 2016 - Springer
Transboundary river basins are one of the main sources of fresh water which are facing
water scarcity. When transboundary water is contested not only the allocation outcomes …

Groundwater sustainability: Develo** a non-cooperative optimal management scenario in shared groundwater resources under water bankruptcy conditions

M Yazdian, G Rakhshandehroo, MR Nikoo… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Groundwater level drawdown changes the hydrological cycle and poses challenges such as
land subsidence and reduction of the groundwater quality. In this study, a new approach …

Optimal water resources allocation in transboundary river basins according to hydropolitical consideration

M Kazemi, O Bozorg-Haddad… - Environment …, 2022 - Springer
Water resources allocation policies can create cooperation or tension among different
stakeholders in a large basin. Thus, integrated water resources management and optimal …

Comprehensive evaluation of security, equity, and efficiency on regional water resources coordination using a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making method with …

Y Tu, H Wang, X Zhou, W Shen, B Lev - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Regional water resources coordination (RWRC) plays a prominent role in long-term
sustainability. In order to achieve harmonious utilization of regional water resources, it is …

Evaluating impacts of irrigation and drought on river, groundwater and a terminal wetland in the Zayanderud Basin, Iran

N Abou Zaki, A Torabi Haghighi, PM Rossi, MJ Tourian… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Zayanderud Basin is an important agricultural area in central Iran. In the Basin, irrigation
consumes more than 90 percent of the water used, which threatens both the downstream …

A new fuzzy approach and bankruptcy theory in risk estimation in Waste Load Allocation

A Nouri, M Bazargan-Lari, E Oftadeh - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we developed a simulator-optimizer model based on risk analysis to determine
Waste Load Allocation (WLA). A new Fuzzy index as Fuzzy Risk Index (FRI) was linked with …

Equitable and reasonable freshwater allocation based on a multi-criteria decision making approach with hydrologically constrained bankruptcy rules

Y Zeng, J Li, Y Cai, Q Tan - Ecological Indicators, 2017 - Elsevier
Effective water allocation among multiple jurisdictions is a key instrument to improve water
use efficiency within the basin scale. To achieve equitable and reasonable water allocation …

A Three-stage Cooperative Game Model for Water Resource Allocation Under Scarcity Using Bankruptcy Rules, Nash Bargaining Solution and TOPSIS

S Janjua, DA An-Vo, K Reardon-Smith… - Water Resources …, 2025 - Springer
The global water security situation is deteriorating due to unequal distribution of water
resources and changing climate, leading to increased conflicts in many regions. This article …

Monotonic bargaining solution for allocating critically scarce transboundary water

DM Degefu, W He, L Yuan - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
As much as transboundary river basins can be niches for regional cooperation, they could
also be causes for interstate water disputes. The risk of water conflict in these river basins is …