Zarghami, Mahdi |Iran

Mahdi Zarghami is associate professor at the University of Tabriz, Iran. He was visiting researcher at Tufts University Water Diplomacy Program and also MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. He also attended courses in Harvard University on Water Policy. His main research and teaching interest is water resources management including governance and diplomacy. He graduated PhD from Sharif University of Technology, Iran 2007 after being visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, 2006-2007. He has co-authored 3 books (one in Springer), about 50 journal papers and 100 conference presentations. Some of the peer refereed papers of Dr Zarghami are published in Water Resources Management, Information Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, and European Journal of Operations Research. He is a fellow at Earth System Governance Project.

Project at IAS-STS: Sustainable Lake Management under Human-Environment Uncertainties

Selected Publications

Zarghami M., Szidarovszky F., Multicriteria Analysis: Applications to Water and Environment Management, June 2011, Springer, Berlin.

Zarghami, M., Safari, N., Szidarovszky, F., Islam, I. (2015), Nonlinear interval parameter programming combined with cooperative games: A tool for addressing uncertainty in water allocation using water diplomacy framework, Water Resources Management, 29: 4285-4303.

Amirrahmani M. and Zarghami M., (2015) The use of statistical weather generator, hybrid data driven and system dynamics models for water resources management under climate change, Journal of Environmental Informatics, 25(1), 23-35.

Zarghami, M. and Hajykazemian, H., (2013) Urban water resources planning by using a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 70(1), January, 1-8.

Zarghami M. (2011) Effective watershed management; Case study of Urmia Lake, Iran, Lake and Reservoir Management, 27(1), March, 87-94.