Holistic management approach for social-ecological systems in Iran

M Kolahi, AH Abdollahzadeh… - Environmental Reviews, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
Social-ecological systems (SESs) in Iran face escalating challenges and pressures due to a
multitude of environmental and social factors, such as global warming, population growth …

Environmental degradation at Lake Urmia (Iran): exploring the causes and their impacts on rural livelihoods

M Schmidt, R Gonda, S Transiskus - GeoJournal, 2021 - Springer
During the last 20 years, Lake Urmia, once recognised as one of the largest hypersaline
lakes on the planet, has suffered from severe environmental degradation. As a result of …

A comprehensive investigation of the causes of drying and increasing saline dust in the Urmia Lake, northwest Iran, via ground and satellite observations, synoptic …

NH Hamzeh, K Shukurov, K Mohammadpour… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, dried lakes have turned into important dust sources with serious environmental,
climatic and socio-economic impacts. In this study, climatic, terrestrial and anthropogenic …

Remotely-Sensed Ecosystem Health Assessment (RSEHA) model for assessing the changes of ecosystem health of Lake Urmia Basin

N Abbaszadeh Tehrani, HZ Mohd Shafri… - … Journal of Image and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The widespread, severe negative impacts of human activities on Earth's ecosystems over
the past few decades have highlighted the importance of continuous and up-to-date …

Long-term investigation of aerosols in the Urmia Lake region in the Middle East by ground-based and satellite data in 2000–2021

ARS Abadi, NH Hamzeh, K Shukurov, C Opp… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dried lake beds are some of the largest sources of dust in the world and have caused
environmental problems in the surrounding areas in recent decades. In the present work, we …

Analyses of a lake dust source in the Middle East through models performance

NH Hamzeh, A Ranjbar Saadat Abadi, MCG Ooi… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Drying lakes have become a new source of dust, causing severe problems in surrounding
areas. From 2000 to 2017, a statistical study was conducted on Lake Urmia in Iran in the …

The effect of the decreasing level of Urmia Lake on particulate matter trends and attributed health effects in Tabriz, Iran

MH Dehghani, PK Hopke, FB Asghari… - Microchemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Air pollution is a problem that accumulates with urbanization and threatens human health
Exposure to PM 10 can result in multiple health effects. The purpose of this investigation …

Dust events over the Urmia Lake Basin, NW Iran, in 2009–2022 and their potential sources

ARS Abadi, KA Shukurov, NH Hamzeh… - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, dried lake beds constitute the largest source of saline dust storms, with serious
environmental and health issues in the surrounding areas. In this study, we examined the …

The importance of wind simulations over dried lake beds for dust emissions in the Middle East

NH Hamzeh, ARS Abadi, DG Kaskaoutis, E Mirzaei… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
Dust storms are one of the major environmental hazards affecting the Middle East countries,
and largely originate in vast deserts and narrow dried lake beds. This study analyzes the …

Heterogeneous long-term and seasonal brine evolution, and Artemia fecal pellet controls on Urmia Lake (NW Iran) salt-crust formation and mineralogy

A Mohammadi - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Urmia Lake resides as a substantial hypersaline lake characterized by notable fluctuations
in water salinity, brine composition, and water level over long-term, annual, and seasonal …