Iran, Islamic Rep of

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Using a combination of machine learning and decision-making methods, researchers evaluate flood risk in Jiroft city, Iran.
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In this Letter to the Editor the authors refer to the 2019 floods that inundated twenty-five provinces of Iran, and how people perceived their risk.

This study highlights what is understood by participation according to different actors and various international contexts. Participation is an often-demanded process in disaster risk reduction (DRR). However, it is often unclear who understands what

This research characterizes risk communication patterns by analyzing public discourse on the novel coronavirus in four Asian countries that suffered outbreaks of varying degrees of severity: South Korea, Iran, Vietnam, and India. 
This study aims to investigate the representation of disasters in school textbooks for children with intellectual disabilities (ID) in the education system in Iran. This study uses a qualitative content analysis method.

This study examines the effect of drought on housing and residential land prices in Iran. Using panel data covering the 2006–2015 period for 31 provinces of Iran and applying a dynamic system and the difference Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) methods

The present study aims to determine the preventive behaviors from the disease based on constructs of the health belief model. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new viral disease that has caused a pandemic in the world. Due to the lack of vaccines

This report assesses the economic impacts of water scarcity for six Middle Eastern countries and examines how water-use efficiency improvements and trade can mitigate these impacts. In doing so, it provides water planners and managers key arguments to

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