Assessment of agricultural groundwater users in Iran: a cultural environmental bias;Evaluation des utilisateurs des eaux souterraines pour l’agriculture en Iran: un biais environnemental culturel;Avaliação dos usuários agrícolas de águas subterrâneas no Irã: uma tendência ambiental cultural;Evaluación de los usuarios del agua subterránea agrícola en Irán: un sesgo ambiental cultural

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 285-295

  Salehi, Saeid ^a   Chizari, Mohammad ^a   Sadighi, Hassan ^a   Bijani, Masoud ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cultural environmental bias; Groundwater sustainable behavior; Iran; Socio economic aspects

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; HYDROGEOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

FARS; IRAN;

EID: 85026918810     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: 14350157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-017-1634-9     Document Type: Article

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