His job is to look at environmental pollutions and particularly soil and groundwater contamination to find better options for managing them.

Not enough attention has been paid to the environment

- A problem that is common in Middle Eastern countries is that not enough attention has been paid to the environment for decades. Neglecting this important pier of sustainable development has led and is leading to other social and economic problems in the area. As the whole procedure of cleaning up soil and groundwater contamination is too expensive and time demanding, it is currently disregarded in most cases in the Middle East.

Combining technical and socio-economical considerations

The researchers are trying to ease the process and find more sustainable solutions by combining technical and socio-economical considerations. This new multi-disciplinary solution includes a contamination transport model together with a decision-making model. In the decision-making model, attention has been paid to all sustainable development considerations to make sure that the best overall solution will be achieved.

An integrated approach

- Due to this integrated approach, it is possible to make the whole process cheaper and faster. The reason is that by looking at the whole process from the above it is possible to avoid extra unnecessary work in different steps. This upside-down approach is promising to help the environment, especially in the Middle Eas,t and is currently in progress to achieve its final goals in real-world problems, says Mehran Naseri Rad.

2019-10-29