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Participatory Management of Traditional Urban Water Infrastructures in Iran
Spool, 2020 Qanats have played a vital role in underground water extraction since ancient times based on the community-based water management schemes in Iran. Due to recent urban sprawl and development pressures, qanats are progressively abandoned and degraded in ...
Sara Nourikia, Narjes Zivdar
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Investigating Principles of Good Governance in Tacit Knowledge of Qasabeh Gonabad Qanat [PDF]
Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2019 The complexity of human-natural systems has drawn attentions towards governance approaches, based on which is the Good Governance Theory. Scholars have proposed various principles for achieving good governance given the contextual conditions.
shahrzad sadeghizadeh bafandeh +2 more
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Mapping Historical Water-Supply Qanat Based On Fuzzy Method. An Application to the Isfahan Qanat (Isfahan, Iran) [PDF]
Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, 2019 According to the geographical location of Iran, it enjoys both arid and semi-arid weather, which has been the cause of water shortage problems. Therefore, water has been one of strategic importance in Iran.
S. Behzadi, Z. Mousavi, E. Norouzi
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WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 4, July/August 2023., 2023 The water‐harvesting and management system in Sri Lanka's North central drylands is one of the oldest historically recorded systems in the world. The photograph shows the Bassawakulama wewa located west of Anuradhapura. Abstract In the dry zone of Sri Lanka, human‐made reservoirs (locally called tanks or wewas) have served for the collection, storage ...
Wiebke Bebermeier +3 more
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Designing a resilience model with a value creation approach in urban management [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, 2020 What is being discussed today in the world of city management is the resilience of cities, which is very important because it can easily affect the life and durability of a city.
P. Tolouei +4 more
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Meybod Dosangi (Two-Stone) Mill: Special Phenomenon among Karizi Mills [PDF]
Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2019 In lands where bread is the main food of their people, mills play a determinative role in organizing their lives, and for this reason, in the course of time, they are constantly updated and adapted to the requirements of the environment.
Abdolazim Poya
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Automated methods for image detection of cultural heritage: Overviews and perspectives
Archaeological Prospection, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 153-169, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract Remote sensing data covering large geographical areas can be easily accessed and are being acquired with greater frequency. The massive volume of data requires an automated image analysis system. By taking advantage of the increasing availability of data using computer vision, we can design specific systems to automate data analysis and ...
Ariele Câmara +3 more
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Archaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 579-595, October/December 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey carried out in the Navkur Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan, as part of the ‘Asingeran Archaeological Project’. The survey was prepared using remote sensing products accessed via Google Earth Engineⓒ, a large‐scale cloud computing service freely available to the scientific community that allows ...
Riccardo Valente +2 more
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The Kahrom Qanat, A Valve with Indigenous Technology and Its Role in The Stable Architecture from The Safavid Period in Isfahan [PDF]
آب و توسعه پایدارThe formation of human communities in the central plateau of Iran due to the ruling system based on the characteristics of geography and arid and semi-arid climate is highly dependent on surface and groundwater resources.
A. Alian, Masoome Taheri Dehkordi
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023 Traditional domestic rainwater harvesting systems (RWHSs) are often at risk of being destroyed. The wide variety of traditional domestic RWHSs across the globe makes defining the sustainability challenges difficult.
Weinan Zhou +2 more
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