Ata Amini

Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center of Kurdistan, Iran

Dr. Ata Amini is Associate Professor of water resources engineering in Kurdistan agricultural and natural resources research and education center, AREEO, Sanandaj, Iran. He completed his doctorate at the University Putra Malaysia in 2009. In recent years, he has been in charge of many research projects and supervised many master and PhD students in the field of water engineering. He is also the author of 4 books and 2 book chapters. He has devoted his academic career to study of the integrated water resources management, river engineering, sediment, scouring and watershed managements. Dr. Ata Amini has more than 20 years teaching experiences and has published many academic papers and final research reports.

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Strong evidence has proved that the climate is changing and the world is becoming warmer by various measures. It is now generally accepted that human activities are changing the configuration of our ecosystem. Most likely, further changes and negative influences are unavoidable. Nevertheless, we can prevent the dominant impacts of climate change, so that life remains manageable. Meanwhile, misperceptions of the solutions are increasing. The overall purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of climate change and its effects within the context of sustainable development. This book, Climate Change and Global Warming, brings together the engineers, scientists, socialists and policymakers of the world to critically look at various aspects of climate change, and it is an attempt to look at the facts.

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Climate Change and Global Warming

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Sedimentation Engineering

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Drought Analysis and Water Resources Management Inspection in Euphrates–Tigris Basin

By Ata Amini, Soheila Zareie, Pezhman Taheri, Khamaruzaman Bin Wan Yusof and Muhammad Raza ul Mustafa

Growing population, increasing basin development, and progressively declining water supplies are typical water resources issues in the Middle East. Drought is one of the most damaging climate‐related hazards that affect more people than any other. For identifying drought‐prone areas in the Euphrates–Tigris Basin, multifold aspects of drought and its features such as the frequency of drought occurrence and its spatial distribution were assessed. The long‐term precipitation data were collected from different meteorological stations of Turkey and Iran, and standard precipitation index (SPI) was calculated. Due to the lack of raw data, the literature works on drought were used in Syria and Iraq to obtain a drought perception in these countries. Moreover, the policy of water resources management and the hydraulic works in these regions were considered. The results show significant changes in the precipitation in these regions over the past decades. The projects undertaken in the basin are not in line with the principles of integrated water resources management and intensify the drought and caused marshland demise in the downstream of the basin. The results of a comprehensive analysis of precipitation variation and water management in this research can alter the policy of water resources management in order to avoid drought in the basin.

Part of the book: River Basin Management

Introductory Chapter: Sustainable Development and Sediment Engineering

By Ata Amini

Part of the book: Sedimentation Engineering

Introductory Chapter: Lake Urmia - A Witness to the Simultaneous Effects of Human Activities, Climate Change, and Global Warming

By Ata Amini

Part of the book: Climate Change and Global Warming