Aims and Scope

Aims

Journal of Geography and Environmental Hazards is an Iranian interdisciplinary research journal that highlights issues of Geography such as geographic risk degree of regions, human exposure to risk, vulnerability, awareness, responses to disasters and planning to adjust the effect of environmental hazards.    .
Also, the role of hazards in affecting development process particularly in developing countries and issues of efficiency, social justice and sustainability are also discussed in the journal.

Scopes

This journal welcomes high-quality Original, Research articles, Review articles, short paper, Case study, Methodology, Applied articles on the following themes:

  • Biological hazards: Ecology and environment, Fire,…
  • Climatic and atmospheric hazards: Climate change, Haze,…
  • Geomorphic-hydrological hazards: Desertification and Advancement of the desert, Hydrogeomorphology, Land subsidence, Sliding and mass movements, Soil erosion, Soil pollution, …
  • Human hazards: Rural environments hazard Urban environments hazard and their management, …
  • Management: Risk management, …
  • Technological hazards