Author: Safanah M. Raafat

Dr. James Nicholas Furze is a member and Fellow of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources, Ibn Zohr University, Morocco; Control and Systems Engineering Department of the University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq; and an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), London, England.        Dr. Saeid Eslamian is a Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources Sustainability in the Department of Water Engineering, and Director of the Centre of Excellence of Risk Analysis and Natural Hazards at Isfahan University of Technology, Iran.    Dr. Safanah Mudheher Raafat is a Professor in the Control and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Technology-Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.   Dr. Kelly Swing is a Professorof Tropical Ecology and Environmental Science at the University of San Francisco de Quito and Director Emeritus of the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Quito, Ecuador.