A Sharifi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 29330 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Sharifi |
| NOMBRES | A |
| APELLIDO | Sharifi |
| FIRMA | SHARIFI A |
| AFILIACIONES | Hiroshima University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8983-8613 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 141 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Water-Saving Attitudes in Residential Gardens
As climate change intensifies, understanding the psychological and contextual factors that shape water-saving attitudes in residential gardening is increasingly important, particularly in arid and semi-arid countries such as Iran. This study examines how climate-related exposure and psychological factors are associated with water-saving attitudes (WSA) using regression analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). Based on survey data from 182…
Frameworks and Practices Towards a Sustainable and Peaceful Future
Sentiment Analysis for Disaster Risk Management Using Data from the Pakistan Citizen Portal
Effective disaster risk management requires bottom-up approaches that leverage citizen feedback to gain insights into disaster events on field. While much existing research in this domain focuses on social media platforms, the rich potential of government-operated digital feedback systems in capturing citizen experiences and concerns during disaster events remains underexplored. To address this gap, this study utilizes sentiment analysis to evalu…
Neighborhood-scale assessment of urban flood impacts on transportation network resilience
Despite extensive research on the impacts of flooding on urban transportation, few studies have systematically assessed neighborhood-scale flood resilience. This study focuses on the Mavişehir neighborhood in İzmir, Turkey, to evaluate the vulnerability and resilience of its road transportation network under flood conditions. Using GIS-based network modeling and quasi-real-time traffic data, the analysis measures accessibility disruptions, increa…
Healthy cities as catalysts for sustainable development
In 2015, the United Nations (UN) introduced the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a comprehensive global framework to address interconnected challenges related to public health, social inequalities, climate change, environmental sustainability, and urban governance. In parallel, for several decades, the Healthy Cities paradigm has evolved as a holistic and context-sensitive approach to enhancing urban health and quality of life (QOL) throug…
Assessing the potential of Tehran's green space master plan to enhance urban ecological performance, cooling capacity, and spatial equity
Tehran, a rapidly urbanizing semi-arid metropolis, faces severe Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects, exacerbating thermal discomfort, health risks, and energy consumption. This study evaluates the potential effectiveness of Tehran's Green Space Master Plan (GSMP) in enhancing ecological performance and mitigating urban heat stress. Using Biotope Area Factor and Urban Cooling Capacity indices, the analysis reveals that the GSMP significantly improves …
Enhancing heatwave resilience in recreational public spaces
Heatwaves are among the most pressing climate-related challenges for contemporary cities, threatening human health, social equity, and urban infrastructure. Recreational public spaces have significant potential to enhance heatwave resilience by providing thermal refuges, supporting urban greening, and enabling social and ecological functions. However, despite growing research on urban heat, these spaces remain underexplored from an operational re…
Sustainable active transportation infrastructure for urban heat adaptation and mitigation
A novel integrated spatiotemporal association and statistical framework revealing urban cooling mechanisms across morphological and climatic contexts
Xeriscaping and Water-Saving Practices in Iranian Residential Gardens
Residential gardens are critical to urban water conservation, yet limited public awareness and sustainability education constrain the adoption of xeriscaping, particularly in arid regions such as Iran. We investigated the uptake of nine common water-saving practices among 182 households and examined the psychological, environmental, and educational factors that shape behavior. Timed watering and lawn avoidance were common, whereas practices requi…
Mapping local perspectives on specialized healthcare
Cities that specialize in healthcare are reshaping the global urban landscape, offering advanced medical services while facing challenges of equity and inclusion. This study examines how residents, healthcare professionals, and policymakers perceive these transformations across five internationally recognized medical hubs, Vancouver, Seoul, Yazd, London, and Bangalore. By using a comparative qualitative design supported by computational text anal…
(In)justice in Smart Cities
Smart city initiatives aim for sustainability and inclusiveness, but recent evidence shows that they often lead to injustices. Although this contradiction has received growing academic attention, a comprehensive understanding of how justice is addressed within smart city practices remains limited. Therefore, this study conducts a systematic review of 67 empirical articles to identify key barriers to achieving justice in smart city development, an…
Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability
Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This study seeks to develop a framework to operationalize the metaverse towards sustainable urban development…
Co-benefits and trade-offs of urban resilience for sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Despite extensive research on urban resilience, a gap remains in understanding the co-benefits and trade-offs between resilience-building efforts and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This systematic review aims to address this gap by analyzing the literature to identify how urban resilience initiatives can contribute to and/or detract from achieving SDGs. Results show that urban resilience and SDGs are closely linked, with advancements i…
Sense of belonging and attachment in urban green spaces
This study evaluates the place attachments of older adults in Hasht Behesht Park, Isfahan, using a qualitative approach and Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 19 participants aged 65–93. The research reveals that place attachment is a multifaceted phenomenon encompassing place identity, place dependence, nature bonding, and social bonding. Findings show that attachment is shaped not s…
Trajectories of circular economy in cities
Inclusive Urban Gateways
This article reimagines the concept of urban gateways, highlighting their potential to promote social equity and inform policy decisions in urban development. The research explores how urban gateways can be adapted to meet contemporary needs, focusing on their evolving forms, functions, and conceptualizations. Using grounded theory, a case study of Shiraz’s Qur’an Gate illustrates how the concept of a gateway can be reinterpreted as a cultural en…
A systematic review of social media-based sentiment analysis in disaster risk management
Exploring the imperative of education and learning for sustainable development
Purpose This paper aims to emphasize the significance of integrating sustainable development (SD) content into higher education institutions (HEIs) curricula. The focus is on identifying areas of research demand related to SD in teaching and learning programmes. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a comprehensive approach, combining bibliometric analysis and an original survey instrument tool. The research involves HEIs staff engaged in b…
Environmental justice and corporate–community conflicts
Expropriations of the Common Property Resources by certain interest groups and consequential protests by the public, essentially for subsistence rights have been topical in recent years. The present study examines the issues that led to protests against a multinational soft drink giant and the eventual closure of its unit. We adopted literature surveys, inductive qualitative content analysis, and interactions with activists, stakeholder represent…
Planning competencies and transformative pedagogy for sustainable development
Understood as “a means by which society decides collectively what urban [and rural] change should be like and tries to achieve that vision by a mix of means.”, there is broad consensus that planning should fully incorporate the notion of sustainable development. Planners have a critical role in envisioning and driving local transitions to sustainable development. This requires transforming what planners learn and how they learn in higher educatio…
Examining the relationship between urban form and social inequality
Inequality is a pervasive aspect of human life, manifesting spatially and intertwining with urban form and the built environment. While compactness can enhance urban equity, sprawling forms often amplify disparities. This study explores how compactness and sprawl influence spatial and social inequalities at the neighborhood scale in Ahvaz, Iran. Unlike prior studies, it employs multidimensional indicators to examine urban form alongside inequalit…
Is life green on the other half? Linking urban green infrastructure to socio-economic inequality and spatial segregation in Tehran, Iran
Urban heat island mitigation in Tehran
Neighborhood-scale energy impacts of renewal initiatives
The 15-minute city
Resilient urban forms
Smart cities and sustainable development goals (SDGs)
Despite the wealth of research on smart cities, there is a lack of studies examining interlinkages between smart cities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In other words, there is limited research on how implementing smart city solutions can lead to co-benefits and/or trade-offs for achieving SDGs. This systematic literature review was conducted to fill this gap. Results show that responsible development/implementation of smart city soluti…
The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa
Urban form resilience
Three decades of research on climate change and peace
Changes in the traditional urban form and the social sustainability of contemporary cities
Who are marginalized in accessing urban ecosystem services? A systematic literature review
A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities
This paper builds on the expansion of urban ecology from a biologically based discipline—ecology in the city—to an increasingly interdisciplinary field—ecology of the city—to a transdisciplinary, knowledge to action endeavor—an ecology for and with the city. We build on this “prepositional journey” by proposing a transformative shift in urban ecology, and we present a framework for how the field may continue this shift. We conceptualize that urba…
The metaverse as a future form of smart cities
The relational shift in urban ecology
This perspective emerged from ongoing dialogue among ecologists initiated by a virtual workshop in 2021. A transdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners conclude that urban ecology as a science can better contribute to positive futures by focusing on relationships, rather than prioritizing urban structures. Insights from other relational disciplines, such as political ecology, governance, urban design, and conservation also contribute.…
An investigation of the reasons for non-compliance with FAR regulations in Tehran
Revisiting the neighborhood definition in view of the 15-minute neighborhood and sustainable neighborhood concepts
Forecasting sustainable development goals scores by 2030 using machine learning models
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations are a worldwide appeal to eliminate poverty, preserve the environment, address climate change, and guarantee that everyone experiences peace and prosperity by 2030. These 17 goals cover various global issues concerning health, education, inequality, environmental decline, and climate change. Several investigations have been carried out to track advancements toward these goals. How…
The evolutionary path of place making
The sustainability–peace nexus in the context of global change
A systematic literature review of the relationship between the rule of law and environmental sustainability
This study aims to synthesize knowledge on the interconnections between the rule of law and environmental sustainability by reviewing existing literature across various contexts. The topic is timely and highly relevant, particularly in the context of climate change, global environmental challenges, and ongoing discourse about the role of the rule of law in promoting sustainable development. We utilized the PRISMA framework for literature search a…
A participatory foresight approach to envisioning post-pandemic urban development pathways in Tokyo
Beyond the blame game
Density has gained considerable attention in policy and scientific discourses since the emergence of COVID-19. In the early days, density was blamed as a negative factor that accelerates the transmission of coronavirus in urban areas. Following this, many studies have examined the impact of density on the spread of COVID-19. This offers a good opportunity to examine and synthesize the insights reported in the literature to understand how density …
Societal smart city
Measuring the effects of Compactness/Sprawl on Covid 19 spread patterns at the neighborhood level
Neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Rapid urbanization, environmental concerns and demand for sustainable cities contributed to the development of Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment Tools (NSATs) such as LEED-ND and BREEAM-Communities. Whilst their success in increasing sustainability outcomes within the built environment is evident, there are unnoticed gaps in NSAT frameworks that might hinder their future suitability for sustainable urban planning and design. Therefore, to r…
Urban Form Resilience
As cities are exposed to a portfolio of risks, the concept of resilience has risen to prominence over the past two decades. Consequently, a large volume of research has been published on different aspects of urban resilience. However, urban form resilience is still relatively understudied. As a step toward filling this gap, this study examines resilience of nine selected neighborhoods from Shiraz, an old Iranian city. The selected cases represent…
Positive Peace Pillars and Sustainability Dimensions
Despite broad recognition that peace and sustainability are interrelated, the pathways of their relationship remain ambiguous or nascent at best. We synthesized the literature relevant to the linkages between the two by framing our analysis around the pillars of positive peace and the dimensions of sustainability. Our review reveals that while the existing studies describe the conditions where peace and sustainability considerations interact, emp…
Towards a framework for driving sustainable urban regeneration with ecosystem services
An investigation of the reasons for non-compliance with FAR regulations in Tehran
A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Changes in the traditional urban form and the social sustainability of contemporary cities
A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience
The concept of resilience is increasingly used in academic and policy circles. To operationalize this concept and reduce the ambiguities surrounding it, since the turn of the century, various resilience assessment methodologies have been introduced. This paper provides a critical review of 36 selected community resilience assessment tools. These tools have been developed by a variety of entities, including national and local organizations, intern…
Principles and criteria for assessing urban energy resilience
Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas and given the projected increase in world׳s urban population, this share is expected to further increase in the future. Continuity of energy supply in cities is affected by climate change and a growing array of other threats such as cyber attacks, terrorism, technical deficiencies, and market volatility. Determined efforts, acknowledging the interactions and interlinkages between ene…
From Garden City to Eco-urbanism
Research priorities for negative emissions
Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere (CDR)—also known as ‘negative emissions’—features \nprominently in most 2 °Cscenarios and has been under increased scrutiny by scientists, citizens, and \npolicymakers. Critics argue that ‘negative emission technologies’ (NETs) are insufficiently mature to \nrely on them for climate stabilization. Some even argue that 2 °Cis no longer feasible or might have \nunacceptable social and environmental costs. …
Urban vulnerability under various blast loading scenarios
A critical review of selected smart city assessment tools and indicator sets
Resilient urban forms
The sustainability–peace nexus in the context of global change
Resilient urban forms
Urban form resilience
The Covid-19 pandemic
A typology of smart city assessment tools and indicator sets
Effects of building types and materials on household electricity consumption in Indonesia
Changes in per capita CO2 emissions of six large Japanese cities between 1980 and 2000
Three decades of research on climate change and peace
Co-benefits and synergies between urban climate change mitigation and adaptation measures
An adaptation of the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) for assessing resilience of Iranian provinces
Analysis of the state of social resilience among different socio-demographic groups during the Covid- 19 pandemic
An evaluative model for assessing pandemic resilience at the neighborhood level
Spatio-temporal patterns of the Covid-19 pandemic, and place-based influential factors at the neighborhood scale in Tehran
Are high-density districts more vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic
Towards a common future
The field of sustainability has evolved considerably since the report “Our Common Future” was published in 1987. Whereas matters related to sustainable development used to be of marginal interest in the 1980s, it has substantially evolved since, and have become mainstream. As a result, there is a plethora of research on different aspects, whose focus has also been influenced by societal developments. This line of thinking also applies to sustaina…
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