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Rainfall-runoff Modeling in a Watershed Scale Using an Object Oriented Approach Based on the Concepts of System Dynamics

Ghashghaei, Maryam; Bagheri, Ali; Morid, Saeed - In: Water Resources Management 27 (2013) 15, pp. 5119-5141

Relying on a linear causal thinking, most of the hydrological models fail to incorporate socio-economic characteristics of a watershed with hydrological and environmental attributes. Based on a systems thinking philosophy, the paper aims to adopt an Object-Oriented (OO) approach based on the...

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Crisis in Urban Water Systems during the Reconstruction Period: A System Dynamics Analysis of Alternative Policies after the 2003 Earthquake in Bam-Iran

Bagheri, Ali; Darijani, Moosa; Asgary, Ali; Morid, Saeed - In: Water Resources Management 24 (2010) 11, pp. 2567-2596

Quick restoration of critical infrastructure systems, such as water, electrical power, natural gas, and transportation systems, are essential for rapid and effective post disaster recovery and reconstruction process. A number of previous studies have assessed vulnerability of infrastructure...

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014

development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become … especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … provision spending in Iran. The results imply that a shock in positive changes of democratic quality of institutions leads to …

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

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The effects of oil shocks on government expenditures and government revenues nexus (with an application to Iran's sanctions)

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji - In: Economic Modelling 40 (2014) C, pp. 299-313

expenditures in Iran as a developing oil export based economy. Moreover, I want to know how oil price (revenue) shocks can affect … evidence for the reverse causality is very weak. Overall the results support the revenue–spending hypothesis for Iran. My …

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Monitoring for sustainable development: a systemic framework

Bagheri, Ali; Hjorth, Peder - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 4, pp. 280-301

'Sustainable development' is a widely used, but less practised, complex term. Using the idea of 'Viability Loops' (VL) based on a System Dynamics (SD) approach and considering sustainability as an ideal for development efforts, this paper argues that sustainable development should be considered...

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Potential early phase success and ultimate failure of economic sanctions

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Bergeijk, Peter A G van - In: Journal of Peace Research 50 (2013) 6, pp. 721-736

In order to explain why successes of economic sanctions predominantly occur in the first two years of a sanction episode, we analyse the dynamic economic and political impact of an economic sanction. Our theoretical analysis of the dynamics of adjustment gives us two important results: firstly,...

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Monitoring for sustainable development: a systemic framework

Bagheri, Ali; Hjorth, Peder - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 8 (2005) 4, pp. 280-301

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