Marzieh Keshavarz

@pnu.ac.ir

Payame Noor University
Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Resilience, adaptation and vulnerability to climate variability and change
Climate change impact assessment
Water poverty and vulnerability
Agricultural water management
Climate smart agriculture
Risk analysis and decision-making process
Co-design of decision support systems
Social aspects of natu
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Scopus Publications

3822

Scholar Citations

27

Scholar h-index

44

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Community participation in protected-areas management: A systematic literature review based on the sustainable development goals
    V Karimi, E Ahmadifard, GG Singh, M Keshavarz, E Karami, H Azadi, ...
    Land Use Policy 167, 108037 , 2026
    2026
  • Validating the invisible: A mixed-methods approach to establishing reliable WEF nexus indicators for sustainable organic saffron production
    F Khalili, S Choobchian, M Keshavarz
    Scientific Reports , 2026
    2026
  • Cropping Systems, Adaptive Livelihood, and Household Resilience among Maize Farmers in Nigeria
    OT Bamigboye, V Karimi, AH Adeniran, M Keshavarz, E Karamidehkordi, ...
    Results in Engineering, 110841 , 2026
    2026
  • When nature treats farmers strictly: hazard management strategies in the Sistan Plain, Iran
    Z Khakifirouz, M Niknami, M Keshavarz, MS Sabouri
    Climate and Development 18 (2), 141-152 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • From Paris to practice: a knowledge-mapping to climate justice research in developed and developing countries
    V Karimi, M Keshavarz, E Karami, E Ahmadifard, H Azadi, ...
    Climatic Change 179 (2), 30 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 3
  • Drivers of 5G technology acceptance: a Bayesian approach
    M Akbari, M Keshavarz, A Rezvani, A Bakhtiar, E Shahriari
    European Journal of International Management 28 (1), 100-123 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 6
  • Drivers of collective action in agricultural water conservation: Applying the social identity model to Iranian farmers in a wetlands basin
    Y Tan, L Naderi, M Keshavarz, GG Singh
    Agricultural Water Management 322, 110015 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Beyond Survival: A Wellbeing-Centric Indicator for Assessing Rural Individuals’ Resilience to Climate Change
    M Keshavarz, E Masoomi
    Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 101078 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Rangeland Resilience on the Brink: Unravelling Ecosystem Services and Degradation Drivers
    Q Aliyar, M Keshavarz
    Rangeland Ecology & Management 103, 507-515 , 2025
    2025
  • Addressing the Resilience of Rural Households to Floods: The Case of the Tajan Watershed
    SM Khasti, F Shafiee, R Fazloula, M Keshavarz
    Journal of Watershed Management Research 16 (2), 97-113 , 2025
    2025
  • A Promising Model of Farmers' Resilience to Floods: A case study of Sistan Plain
    Z Khakifirouz, M Niknami, M Keshavarz, MS Sabouri
    Journal of Rural Research 16 (2), 107-124 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Uniting for survival: collective conservation drivers and strategies for the Caspian red deer
    A Alambaigi, M Keshavarz, A Mohammadi, D Ziaei
    Journal for Nature Conservation, 127014 , 2025
    2025
  • Application of Complexity Theory and Agricultural Innovation System approaches to evaluate performance of the New Agricultural Extension System: the case of Iran
    N Jafari, E Karami, M Keshavarz, S Karami, H Azadi
    Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology 26 (1), 13-26 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Assessing the Vulnerability of Farmers to Natural Hazards in the Sistan Plain
    Z Khakifirouz, M Niknami, M Keshavarz, MS Sabouri
    Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education Journal 20 (2), 69-94 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Livelihood Vulnerability and Adaptation of Tehran Province’Farm Families to Climate Change: Strategies and Drivers
    M Dargahi Maraghe, M Keshavarz
    Iranian Agricultural Extension and Education Journal 20 (2), 199-221 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Resilience to climate change in agricultural water-scarce areas: The major obstacles and adaptive strategies
    A Ahmadi, M Keshavarz, F Ejlali
    Water Resources Management 39 (3), 1195-1214 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 22
  • Transition from vulnerability to resilience to dust storms: a mixed-methods research
    Z Khakifirouz, M Niknami, M Keshavarz, MS Sabouri
    Natural Hazards 121 (3), 2565-2586 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • An assessment of rural household vulnerability to floods: The case of Tajan watershed
    SM Khasti, R Fazloula, M Keshavarz
    Iranian Journal of Soil and Water Research 55 (8), 1359-1376 , 2024
    2024
  • The emergence of online social capital during the COVID-19 outbreak and its impact on individual coping and community resilience in rural areas
    R Karami, M Keshavarz
    Current Psychology 43 (19), 17787-17800 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 16
  • From the farmers' point of view, how threatening and harmful are natural hazards? AQ methodology
    Z Khakifirouz, M Niknami, M Keshavarz, MS Sabouri
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 102, 104278 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Climate change and agriculture: Impacts and adaptive responses in Iran
    V Karimi, E Karami, M Keshavarz
    Journal of Integrative Agriculture 17 (1), 1-15 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 529
  • Farmers' pro-environmental behavior under drought: Application of protection motivation theory
    M Keshavarz, E Karami
    Journal of Arid Environments 127, 128-136 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 400
  • The social experience of drought in rural Iran
    M Keshavarz, E Karami, F Vanclay
    Land use policy 30 (1), 120-129 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 383
  • Livelihood vulnerability to drought: A case of rural Iran
    M Keshavarz, H Maleksaeidi, E Karami
    International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 21, 223-230 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 224
  • Irrigation water management in Iran: Implications for water use efficiency improvement
    B Nazari, A Liaghat, MR Akbari, M Keshavarz
    Agricultural water management 208, 7-18 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 220
  • What influences farmers' intentions to conserve on-farm biodiversity? An application of the theory of planned behavior in fars province, Iran
    H Maleksaeidi, M Keshavarz
    Global Ecology and Conservation 20, e00698 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 173
  • Farmers' decision-making process under drought
    M Keshavarz, E Karami
    Journal of arid environments 108, 43-56 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 132
  • Assessing rural households' resilience and adaptation strategies to climate variability and change
    M Keshavarz, RS Moqadas
    Journal of Arid Environments 184, 104323 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 123
  • Vulnerability and adaptation of livestock producers to climate variability and change
    V Karimi, E Karami, M Keshavarz
    Rangeland Ecology & Management 71 (2), 175-184 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 119
  • Co-production of knowledge and adaptation to water scarcity in developing countries
    Z Zarei, E Karami, M Keshavarz
    Journal of environmental management 262, 110283 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 118
  • Climate change and vulnerability: the case of MENA countries
    R Namdar, E Karami, M Keshavarz
    ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10 (11), 794 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 114
  • Drought risk assessment: Towards drought early warning system and sustainable environment in western Iran
    L Sharafi, K Zarafshani, M Keshavarz, H Azadi, S Van Passel
    Ecological Indicators 114, 106276 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 101
  • Adaptation of Iranian farmers to climate variability and change
    M Keshavarz, E Karami, M Zibaei
    Regional environmental change 14 (3), 1163-1174 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 88
  • Sociology of sustainable agriculture
    E Karami, M Keshavarz
    Sociology, organic farming, climate change and soil science, 19-40 , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 82
  • Farmers’ attitude towards using treated wastewater for irrigation: The question of sustainability
    M Khanpae, E Karami, H Maleksaeidi, M Keshavarz
    Journal of Cleaner Production 243, 118541 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 77
  • Institutional adaptation to drought: The case of Fars Agricultural Organization
    M Keshavarz, E Karami
    Journal of environmental management 127, 61-68 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 60
  • A typology of farmers’ drought management
    M Keshavarz, E Karami, A Kamgare-Haghighi
    American-Eurasian Journal of Agriculture & Environmental Sciences 7 (4), 415-426 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 60
  • Agricultural land use change under climate variability and change: drivers and impacts
    T Tahmasebi, E Karami, M Keshavarz
    Journal of Arid Environments 180, 104202 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 58
  • Climate change and drought: building resilience for an unpredictable future
    H Maleksaeidi, M Keshavarz, E Karami, S Eslamian
    Handbook of drought and water scarcity, 163-186 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 50
  • Vegetable farmers' knowledge, attitude and drivers regarding untreated wastewater irrigation in developing countries: A case study in Iran
    H Maleksaeidi, S Ranjbar, F Eskandari, M Jalali, M Keshavarz
    Journal of Cleaner Production 202, 863-870 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 49