Morteza BehzadfarManagement and Planning Organization of North Khorasan · Landuse Planning
Morteza Behzadfar
PhD
Nowadays, I am focusing on documenting rain water and flood harvesting systems based on indigenouse knowledge.
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April 2015 - present
Management and Planning Organization of North Khorasan
Position
- Head of Department
January 2011 - present
Tarbiat Modares University
Education
October 2011 - April 2014
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Accelerated soil erosion is an undesirable process that adversely affects water and soil
resources. Rainfall erosivity is an important factor in water erosion models. Accordingly,
the present study was conducted to estimate the rainfall erosivity throughout Iran based
on the latest available detailed rainfall data while considering its temporal and...
Soil erosion and sediment redistribution are natural processes of paramount importance. They are causing environmental concerns such as land degradation, soil and habitat loss, water pollution, desertification, ecosystem alteration. They may also have severe consequences on human infrastructures, such as bridges, road and rail network; sedimentatio...
Land degradation is caused by multiple forces, including extreme weather conditions, particularly drought and floods. It is also caused by human activities that pollute or degrade the quality of soils and land utility. It negatively affects food production and ecosystem goods and services. Land degradation has accelerated during the 20th and 21st c...
Ecological sustainability assessment is a pivotal for determining the type of human interaction and dealings with nature and the ecological services received from it, which should be constantly monitored. While limited studies have been carried out in the country and so far this important issue has not been considered in practical regional and nati...
This photo belongs to a system that harvest flood streams in an arid region. Local farmer divert flood stream by a canal to plain. Afterwhile the flood water infiltrate to the soil profile, they get ready for planting. This kind of systems named BanSar in some arid regions of Iran.
One of the main challenges in the 21st century is to promote the development of human society while protecting natural ecosystems resilience. The key to achieving this goal is to establish a sustainability balance between the ecological and human sectors, which cannot be achieved without comprehensive and adequate assessments of sustainability. In...
IntErO بویراحمد و کهگیلویه استان آبخیز حوزه دو در آرمین محسن * ؛ یاسوج دانشگاه طبیعی، منابع و کشاورزی دانشکده طبیعی، منابع مهندسی گروه استادیار، نژاد والیتی صالح علی سید ؛ مهندسی ارشد کارشناسی آموخته دانش طبیعی منابع-آبخیزداری خیبری نیا قربان وجیهه ؛ بهبهان...
نشریه فنی 505 نظام فنی و اجرایی که توسط سازمان برنامه و بودجه کشور در سال 1388 منتشر شده است، دستور العملی برای پایش و ارزشیابی طرح های مدیریت منابع طبیعی و آبخیزداری است. در این گزارش که در قالب یک کارگاه آموزشی برگزار شده است، به نقط قوت و ضعف آن پرداخته ایم
Land use change in all river basins leads to changes in hydrologic response, soil erosion, and sediment dynamics characteristics. Those changes are often viewed as the main cause of accelerated erosion rates. We studied the impact of land use changes on soil erosion processes in one of the watersheds in Montenegro: the Miocki Potok, using this wate...
1- Introduction
Soil erosion is one of the most important environmental issues that causes various ecological, social and economic problems. Today, the use of various models for estimating and predicting hydrological data of watersheds is increasing. Soil erosion risk assessment is a special form of land resources evaluation, and its purpose is to...
Maintaining up-to-date figures on land degradation vulnerabilities is essential for creating ecosystems resilient. Different watersheds have different land erosion vulnerabilities and capacities depending on many environmental factors. Soil erosion is standing as a natural indicator of land degradation but actually it can be accelerated from human...
This study investigated the role of three rangeland species viz. Agropyron trichophorum, Medicago sativa, and Lolium prenne on mitigating of effects of a freeze-thaw (FT) cycle on runoff generation and soil loss from small experimental plots. Small plots (0.5 × 0.5m) were prepared in three replicates for control (i.e., under a FT cycle only) and tr...
Today, the urban lifestyle has led people away from nature. That is why the tourism industry is booming day by day for proximity to nature. Traditional residences in rural areas are of particular interest. Because citizens are looking for new places to experience the criterion of adaptation to geographic conditions. One of the most important princi...
The complexity of hydrological processes, spatial and temporal variation of all effective factors and lack of essential measured filed data convinced researchers to use empirical models in various scales. The IntErO model was used to predict maximum outflow (Qmax), soil erosion intensity (W year) and sediment yield (G year) in one of the internal s...
Sustainable development looking to reduce threats and harmful effects of economic, social and followed proper development patterns and preservation from lands in periphery cities. Urbanization in developing countries in comparison with developed countries accelerating the process has been increasingly and this problem caused to the physical expansi...
Calculation of Soil erosion intensity and Runoff in the
S7-8-int basin of the Shirindareh Watershed in Iran
Land Degradation caused by soil erosion is complex phenomenon, generated from interactions of physical, biological and chemical processes. Biogeochemical reactions, transforming rock to soil, are frequently influenced by the physical processes, and water is one of the main causative agents of crushing of rocks and of the formation of fractures. Fur...
Soil erosion models have been developed to estimate soil erosion intensity and to quantify the volume of sediment, a final result of soil erosion processes. We used the River Basin erosion model of Spalevic, which is based on the Erosion Potential Method of Garilovic to estimate sediment yield from the S 5-1 catchment of the Shirindareh Watershed f...
Soil erosion by water as a natural process can occur in all climates and zones and change all landforms. As the measuring of soil erosion is costly and time consuming process, dozens of erosion prediction models have been developed and the aim of the majority of all of them is to predict average rates (often an annual average rate) of soil loss fro...
Soil erosion by water as a natural process can occur in all climates and zones and change all landforms. As the measuring of soil erosion is costly and time consuming process, dozens of erosion prediction models have been developed and the aim of the majority of all of them is to predict average rates (often an annual average rate) of soil loss fro...
Soil erosion by water as a natural process can occur in all climates and zones and change all landforms. As the measuring of soil erosion is costly and time consuming process, dozens of erosion prediction models have been developed and the aim of the majority of all of them is to predict average rates (often an annual average rate) of soil loss fro...
Land Degradation caused by soil erosion is complex phenomenon, generated from interactions of physical, biological and chemical processes. Biogeochemical reactions, transforming rock to soil, are frequently influenced by the physical processes, and water is one of the main causative agents of crushing of rocks and of the formation of fractures. Fur...
Many factors such as freeze-thaw (FT) cycle influence soil behavior. Application of soil amendments can play an important role on runoff time commencement (RT), volume (RV) and soil loss (SL) on soils subjected to FT cycles. However, limited studies have been documented on this subject. The present study was therefore carried out under rainfall sim...
Monitoring and detecting land changes are the most important process in landscape planning and management. In this study we analysed changes trend and the land uses changes in Shirin Dare Watershed Basin in North Khorasan province from 1996 to 2015 using remote sensing techniques and geographical information systems (GIS). A series of satellite ima...
UDK 631.459(55 Shirin-Dareh Basin) Soil erosion is one of the main problems of land degradation of agricultural land, especially in the mountainous areas. This negative process is one of the key problems to the environment and water resources in Iran. Using the computer-graphic modelling, we calculated sediment yield and peak discharge of the S1-2...
UDK 631.459(55 Shirin-Dareh Basin) Soil erosion is a natural process caused generally by the force of water (running water and raindrops) or wind. The process involves not only the detachment of soil particles (on- site), but also their transfer and deposition elsewhere in the river basin and out of the catchment (off-site). The assessment of soil...
Soil erosion is a process when the water and/or wind destroying cohesive forces that keep the soil particles at the soil surface together. Plants protect the soil from the effects of this land degradation process, but some agricultural practices of cultivating the same plants may disturb protective layer, exposing the soil to erosion. In this resea...
Soil erosion is driven by complex processes involving detachment of material caused by raindrops and flow trac-tions, which is further transported by the wind or by the water flow. The region of Shirindareh Watershed of Iran is particularly prone to erosion because it is subject to long dry periods followed by heavy erosive rainfalls, falling on st...
This study evaluated and compared groundwater spring potential maps produced with two different models—namely multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) and random forest (RF)—using geographic information system (GIS). In total, 234 spring locations were identified in the Boujnord, North Khorasan, Iran and a GIS spring inventory map was prepare...
Soil erosion is a natural process caused generally by the force of water (running water and raindrops) or wind. The process involves not only the detachment of soil particles (on-site), but also their transfer and deposition elsewhere in the river basin and out of the catchment (off-site). The assessment of soil erosion may be performed using and a...
Soil erosion is one of the main problems of land degradation of agricultural land, especially in the mountainous areas. This negative process is one of the key problems to the environment and water resources in Iran. Using the computer-graphic modeling, we calculated sediment yield and peak discharge of the S1-2 catchment, of the Shirin-Dareh Basin...
Soil erosion is one of the main problems of land degradation of agricultural land, especially in the mountainous areas. This negative process is one of the key problems to the environment and water resources in Iran. Using the computer-graphic modelling, we calculated sediment yield and peak discharge of the S1-2 catchment, of the Shirin-Dareh Basi...
Soil erosion is a natural process caused generally by the force of water (running water and raindrops) or wind. The process involves not only the detachment of soil particles (on-site), but also their transfer and deposition elsewhere in the river basin and out of the catchment (off-site). The assessment of soil erosion may be performed using and a...
Soil erosion is natural processes that take place when the power of wind and water on the soil surface go beyond the cohesive forces that bind the soil particles together. Vegetation cover protects the soil from the effects of these erosive forces. Land management activities such as ploughing, heavy grazing may disturb this protective layer, exposi...
Nowadays, water supply for sustainable development is one of the most important concerns and challenges in most countries of the world. Due to determination of groundwater potential zones are one of the important tools in the conservation, management and utilization of water resources. Thus, the present study aimed to prioritize the effective facto...
Soil erosion on agricultural and lands on the steep slopes and dry ones is the main problem in Iran and is a threat to soil quality and to the ability of soils to provide agricultural services and may cause to endanger food security and rural sustainable development. The negative on-site and off-site impact of sediments on the environment and water...
Soil erosion on agricultural and lands on the steep slopes and dry ones is the main problem in Iran and is a threat to soil quality and to the ability of soils to provide agricultural services and may cause to endanger food security and rural sustainable development. The negative on-site and off-site impact of sediments on the environment and water...
Land use change in all the river basins lead to the changes of hydrologic response, soil erosion and sediment dynamics characteristics. Those changes are often viewed as main cause of accelerated erosion rates. We studied the impact of land use changes on soil erosion processes in one of the watersheds in Montenegro: the Miocki Potok, using this wa...
Soil erosion and sediment redistribution are natural processes of paramount importance. They are causing environmental concerns such as land degradation, soil and habitat loss, water pollution, desertification, ecosystem alteration. They may also have severe consequences on human infrastructures, such as bridges, road and rail network; sedimentatio...
Soil erosion on agricultural land especially steep slopes and dry ones is the main problem in Iran and is a threat to soil quality and to the ability of soils to provide agricultural services and may cause to endanger food security. The negative on-site and off-site impact of sediments on the environment and water resources is widely acknowledged w...
Soil erosion is globaly one of the most important threats for food security. Adoption of soil control measures is then very necessary to mitigate soil erosion. In fact, the efficiency of soil erosion control measures depends on exact perception of the driving forces and processes of soil erosion. Thus, investigation of temporal variation of soil er...
Soil erosion is global environmental problem which causes land degradation, sedimentation in watercourses, ecological degradation and source pollution. It is important to understand the process of soil erosion in river basins, to categorize the erosion prone areas and find potential measures to alleviate the environmental effects. The main goal of...
The present study aimed to investigate the effects of polyacrylamide (PAM) on runoff volume (R) and soil loss (SL) subjected to freeze-thaw (FT) cycle from small experimental plots induced under rainfall simulation condition. A completely randomized design with FT cycle and none use of PAM as control were used to compare the effect of application o...
Soil erosion control is very important to natural resources conservationists and managers. For this reason, different methods and practices have been developed and used to control soil erosion. In recent years, application of soil amendments is one of the most recent technologies in soil and water management. However, different aspects of its appli...
Many factors affect soil erosion and runoff generation. However, the role of some factors such as freeze-thaw (FT) processes has not been well considered yet. The present study therefore aimed to simulate and explain the effect of FT cycle on runoff generation and sediment yield under rainfall simulation condition. Towards this attempt, air and dif...
The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between rainfall parameters and USLE R-factor. To gain R-factor, at first, shower kinetic energy must be calculated and then its erosivity computed by using maximum 30 minutes rainfall intensity. Therefore 3 meteorological stations in Khuzestan province and one station each in Kohgiloyeh an...
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Questions (11)
In regional (spatial) planning programs, we have different goals & indicators and off course programs. A regional planning program shows a strategic plan for a region on mid-term period. We want to monitor different indicators to assess that how is the situation of any program and indicator. Please share me any experiences about assessment and monitoring of spatial planning programs.
Thanks
For effective and best management practices especially in ungauged basins that prone to soil erosion, it is necessary to prioritize sub-basins. There are many catchment characteristics and criteria such as hydroclimatologic, Geology, Land use, Social and Economic etc. that we can use for prioritization. Which of them are important and Which method(s) can be used for evaluation?
We name different things as colored gold to show and note on high values of them. Why not we call the soil as brown gold because of many services to human life?
What is the effect of soil erosion on carbon release?
I would like to know about your experience and opinions on soil erodibility mapping, Thank you.
