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Land and environment of Kurdistan

This A narrower topic within a discipline. studies the mountains, rivers, lakes and forests of Kurdistan and the risks they face.

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Fields
4
Courses
4
Faculty
Faculty of Kurdish Studies
Before you begin The Kurdish Cooperation Organization is a federation of communities that learn from one another. It is not a university, claims no public authority and serves no government, party or faith body.Contested subject

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Sources

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  1. Mohammad Ali Asaadi, Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi, Omid Zamani et al. (2019). The Impacts of Water Pricing and Non-Pricing Policies on Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Case of Ghorveh Plain at Kurdistan Province, Iran. Basel : MDPI. DOI 10.34657/6109
  2. mahnaz sayyadi, kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Ahmad vahabi et al. (2017). A survey of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences students’ perceptions of educational environment based on DREEM model in 2015. Scientific Journal of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedical Faculty. DOI 10.29252/sjnmp.2.4.56
  3. Azad Mohammad Amin (2017). Kurdistan oil and its impact on kurdistan environment — Overview. 2017 International Conference on Environmental Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industries: Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a Case Study (EIOGI). DOI 10.1109/eiogi.2017.8267636
  4. Alessandro Tinti (2018). Water Resources Management in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Institute of Regional and International Studies. DOI 10.26598/auis_iris_2017_10_19
  5. Sabah Abbas Majeed (2021). Grain Size Analysis as Paleo-environment Indicator of Lower Pliocene Sediments (Bai-Hassan Formation), Garmian Area, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq. Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences. DOI 10.21271/zjpas.33.3.7

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01Fields

The fields this discipline covers.

  • Water and dams on the Tigris and Euphrates
  • Lake Urmia
  • Zagros forests and mountain farming
  • Earthquakes

02Classification

Where the discipline sits in the international lists of fields.

SchemeCodeSteward
OECD Fields of Research and Development (FORD), Frascati Manual 2015, Table 2.21.5OECD
ISCED Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F 2013)0521UNESCO Institute for Statistics

03Courses

Proposed 4

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04Communities of practice

  • Community of practice: Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation

    A A proposal only, which exists once the governing body the charter names decides. A group of practitioners of one field who work together on courses, standards and toolkits; the charter calls it a Standards area. on disaster risk and climate adaptation across Kurdistan.

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05Contribute to this field

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06Related service subsites

  • Development

    Social programmes, livelihoods and disaster preparedness for Kurdish communities.

  • Research

    Kurdish studies: the observatory, reading lists and new research.

  • Heritage

    History from the Zagros to today, memory, faiths, arts, literature and food.

07More in this department

  • Open

    Kurdish society and politics

    This field compares Kurdish society and politics across states, descriptively and with no party line.

    5 courses5 fields

  • Open

    Kurdish diaspora studies

    Kurdish diaspora studies examine why Kurds left, where they settled and how each community took shape.

    7 courses6 fields

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APA

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. (2026). Land and environment of Kurdistan. kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdistan-land-environment/

Chicago

The Kurdish Cooperation Organization. 2026. “Land and Environment of Kurdistan.” kurds.global. https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdistan-land-environment/.

BibTeX
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	author = {{The Kurdish Cooperation Organization}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Land and environment of {Kurdistan}},
	url = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdistan-land-environment/},
	howpublished = {https://kurds.global/learn/disciplines/kurdistan-land-environment/},
}

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08Research and sources

Recent and relevant work on this page’s subject, from approved open scholarly sources. Metadata and links only. Titles stay as published. Not yet reviewed.

  1. The Impacts of Water Pricing and Non-Pricing Policies on Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Case of Ghorveh Plain at Kurdistan Province, Iran

    Mohammad Ali Asaadi, Seyed Abolghasem Mortazavi, Omid Zamani et al. · 2019 · Basel : MDPI

    ArticleDataCiteDOAJOpen access

  2. A survey of Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences students’ perceptions of educational environment based on DREEM model in 2015

    mahnaz sayyadi, kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Ahmad vahabi et al. · 2017 · Scientific Journal of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedical Faculty

    ArticleCrossrefDOAJOpen access

  3. Kurdistan oil and its impact on kurdistan environment — Overview

    Azad Mohammad Amin · 2017 · 2017 International Conference on Environmental Impacts of the Oil and Gas Industries: Kurdistan Region of Iraq as a Case Study (EIOGI)

    ArticleCrossrefOpenAIRE

  4. Water Resources Management in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

    Alessandro Tinti · 2018 · Institute of Regional and International Studies

    ReportCrossref

  5. Grain Size Analysis as Paleo-environment Indicator of Lower Pliocene Sediments (Bai-Hassan Formation), Garmian Area, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq

    Sabah Abbas Majeed · 2021 · Zanco Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  6. Sustainable Water Management in Iraq (Kurdistan) as a Challenge for Governmental Responsibility

    Mahmood A. Yousuf, Naďa Rapantová, Jalal H. Younis · 2018 · Water

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  7. The Effects of Persian Turpentine (Pistacia atlantica Desf) Single-trees Crown on the Amount of Nutrients in the Forest Soil (Sarvabad Region in Kurdistan Province)

    P. Rostamizad, Department of Forestry, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Kurdistan, Kurdistan, Iran., V. Hosseini et al. · 2018 · Journal of Water and Soil Science

    ArticleCrossref

  8. Contradiction of Opportunity/Challenge Development: Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Kurdistan Province in Institutional and Public Conflicts

    Hossein Daneshmehr, Osman Hedayat · 2023 · آب و فاضلاب

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  9. The investment environment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and its effect on attracting investment for the time period (2006-2016)

    Idrees Ramadhan Haji · 2017 · Journal of University of Human Development

    ArticleOpenAIREOpen access

  10. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN KURDISTAN REGION – IRAQ THE CASE OF DUKAN LAKE

    Arkhawan Shareef · 2018 · Polytechnic Journal

    ArticleCrossref

  11. Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Water Resources of Lesser Zab, Kurdistan, Iraq Using SWAT Model

    Nahlah Abbasa, Saleh A. Wasimi, Nadhir Abbas Al-Ansari · 2016 · Engineering

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  12. Geochemistry, Depositional Environment, and Provenance of the Cretaceous Radiolarian Chert in Northeastern Kurdistan, Iraq

    Ruaa Al-Sheraefy, Falah Ahmed, Mohamed Alrashedi · 2022 · Iraqi Geological Journal

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

Sources, licences and fetch dates: Crossref (Metadata facts, any use; abstracts may be publisher-owned and are never shown), 2026-10-23; DataCite (CC0 1.0 (DataCite metadata)), 2026-10-23; DOAJ (Metadata CC0 1.0 (DOAJ); articles under their own open licences), 2026-10-23; OpenAIRE (CC BY 4.0 (OpenAIRE Graph)), 2026-10-23; OpenAlex (CC0-1.0 data; metered API (free key)), 2026-10-23.

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