Nasser Karami
Recipient of the Nowruz Award from the Pasargad Heritage Foundation, year 1403 of the Iranian Calendar (2024) –
In the field of Environment and Natural Heritage:
Dr. Nasser Karami is a climatologist, environmental expert, author, and pioneer of environmental journalism in Iran and a global environmental figure. He is this year’s recipient of the Nowruz Award in the field of Environment and Natural Heritage for his achievements as outlined below:
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- His dedicated efforts for more than four decades to preserve Iran’s natural heritage and environment.
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- His constant efforts to advance knowledge and awareness of environmental issues especially in Iran.
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- His timely warnings and clarifications regarding the dangers that threaten Iran’s environment.
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- Research and publication of various effective articles and books related to sustainable development, climate, and weather changes in Iran and abroad.
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- Having a permanent bond with Iran’s natural heritage and environmental issues and a lifetime of dedication to the betterment of Iran’s natural heritage and environment.
Nasser Karami Bio
Dr. Nasser Karami, as a geographer, climatologist, and writer, has thirty years of experience in teaching and research on sustainable development and climate change in Iran and Norway. He worked as an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research interests lie in sustainable development in dry areas, climate change, the relationship of totalitarianism and environment, and sustainable tourism.
His current projects cover the impacts of prolonged drought in the MENA region, Iranian classical techniques on survival and livelihood in arid deserts, impacts of totalitarian policies of some governments in the Middle East on drying up parts of the region, and historical dimensions of water issues in the Middle East. Some books by Dr. Karami, which have been published in Farsi, include Eternity (2011), Iran’s Path-finder (2008), New Concepts in Climatology (1999), Land and people of Oman (2008), Land and people of Kuwait (2008), Sustainable Development in Dry Areas (2001), Talkhak (1998). Iran’s Path-finder is a best-selling book on Iran’s tourism and geography and has been republished several times in the last ten years. Additionally, he has published scientific articles on climate change and the political dimensions of environmental degradation in the Middle East. Dr. Karami also has some experiences in regional planning and managing and advising development projects in some provinces in Iran. In Iran, Dr. Karami is known as an environmentalist journalist due to his twenty years of continuous columns in a best-selling newspaper in Iran, Hamshahri Daily. He has elected one of the thirty best faces of Iran’s environment in the past thirty years.
