Combating with Desertification Process by an emphasis on Capabilities of Desert Areas (Case Study: Isfahan Province)

One of the present challenges in Iran is drought as a natural hazard and the crisis of desertification. Drought and limitation of precipitation is an inherent part of nature in Iran. This warm and arid nature causes environmental issues for the inhabitants of the country. One of the suffered provinces nationwide is Isfahan Province. Progressive desertification and its geographic characteristics, neighborhood deserts, shortage of rainfall and emergence of periodic droughts are among notable characteristics. The basic incentive to prepare this article is familiarity with the crisis of desertification in Isfahan Province and the definition of some strategies and guidelines to cope with this desertification. This phenomenon was not considered as an innate threat. We have also paid attention to its advantages, in addition to being a challenge for the province for which it could also be regarded as an opportunity.