Associate Professor Dr Sharareh Pourebrahim

Associate Professor Dr Sharareh Pourebrahim

  • Associate Professor
  • Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development
SDGs Focus

Biography

Dr. Sharareh Pourebrahim is an Associate Professor at the Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development, ºìÐÓÊÓƵ University, Malaysia. Her research focuses on sustainable land-use dynamics, environmental planning, and policymaking to support sustainable development and resilience in socio-ecological systems.

She has over two decades of academic and research experience in sustainability science, environmental planning, and spatial analysis. Her research explores interdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability, particularly through ecosystem services accounting, strategic environmental assessment, and spatial land-use planning. She has contributed extensively to

research addressing global sustainability challenges, including climate change adaptation, sustainable agriculture and food systems, and integrated management of water-energy-food-ecosystem systems. Her work also emphasizes nature-community resilience planning and the application of decision-support tools for environmental policy and land-use planning.

Dr. Sharareh has conducted research on ecosystem resilience, ecological footprint assessment, and integrated water management in environmentally sensitive regions such as river basins and coastal ecosystems. Her research output includes publications in international peer-reviewed journals on topics such as ecosystem service valuation, environmental impact assessment, and spatial planning for sustainable development.

She has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring. She has supervised numerous master's and doctoral students in environmental planning, sustainability science, and spatial modelling. She has also led and participated in several national and international research projects aimed at improving ecosystem resilience and advancing nature-based solutions for sustainable development.

Her current research focuses on evaluating ecosystem services in urban wetlands and developing community-based strategies for water resource management, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable land-use planning in Southeast Asia.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • Phd, University Putra Malaysia (UPM)
  • Masters, University of Tehran

Research Interests

  • Ecosystem Services Accounting
  • Spatial Land-Use Planning
  • Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem Nexus
  • Life cycle assessment and environmental impacts
  • Sustainable Forest Management
  • AI for Sustainable Agriculture
  • Environment Planning and Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
  • Strategic Environment Assessment

Teaching Areas

  • Frontier Technologies for Sustainable Development

Courses Taught

  • Sustainable Management and Operation

Notable Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Salajegheh, S., Jafari, H. R., & Pourebrahim, S. (2026). Bridging ecology and governance: An integrated framework for assessing industrial development resilience in water-scarce regions. International Journal of Environmental Research, 20, 78.
  2. Bostani, A. M., & Pourebrahim, S. (2025). Integrated fire risk assessment using time-series satellite data and multi-criteria decision-making techniques. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 1, 100916.
  3. Ghasemian Sorboni, S., Hadipour, M., Chen, J. E., & Pourebrahim, S. (2025). Evaluating climate change impacts on habitat suitability for the Iberian freshwater crab (Potamon ibericum Bieberstein, 1808) in Iran. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 1608518.
  4. Soltani-Gerdefaramarzi, S., Pourebrahim, S., & Ehteram, M. (2025). Improved Shark Optimization Algorithm–Composite Radial Basis Function Neural Network: A new version of the RBFNN model for forecasting monthly solar radiation. Results in Engineering, 3, 106339.
  5. Pourebrahim, S., Seifi, A., Ehteram, M., Hadipour, M., & Chen, J. E. (2025). The CEEMDAN–EWT–CNN–GRU–SVM model: A robust framework for decomposing non-stationary time series and predicting solar radiation. Results in Engineering, 25, 104267.
  6. Pourebrahim, S., Ehteram, M., Hadipour, M., Kisi, O., El-Shafie, A., Ahmed, A. N., & Chen, J. E. (2024). Advancements in evaporation prediction: Introducing the GRU–MKELM–GPR model. Environmental Sciences Europe, 36, 202.
  7. Hadipour, M., Pourebrahim, S., Heidari, H., Nikooy, F., Ahmed, A. N., & Chen, J. E. (2024). Evaluation of water resource balance in the Urmia Lake Basin: Integrating carrying capacity and water footprint model. Ecological Indicators, 166, 112464.
  8. Rezaie, H., Pourebrahim, S., & Karimadini, M. (2024). Predicting land use/cover changes using integrated LSTM neural networks and cellular automata. Environment, Development and Sustainability.
  9. Fayyaz, S., Moeinaddini, M., Pourebrahim, S., Khoshnevisan, B., Kazemi, A., Toufighi, S., & Birkved, M. (2024). Environmental enhancement scenarios in a petrochemical port using hybrid LCA-GRM modeling. Journal of Cleaner Production.
  10. Seifi, A., Pourebrahim, S., Ehteram, M., & Shabanian, H. (2024). A robust multi-model framework for groundwater level prediction: The BFSA-MVMD-GRU-RVM model. Results in Engineering, 103250.
  11. Rezaie, H., Pourebrahim, S., & Karimadini, M. (2024). A robust approach for predicting land use/cover changes through integrated LSTM neural networks and cellular automata. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 1–22.
  12. Fayyaz, S., Moeinaddini, M., Pourebrahim, Sh., Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Ali Kazemi, Seyed Pendar Toufighi, Mias Sommer Schnberg, Morten Birkved. (2024). Assessing environmental enhancement scenarios in a petrochemical port: A comprehensive comparison using a hybrid LCA-GRM model. Journal of Cleaner Production. 141079.

Achievements & Accolades

UNESCO Keizo Obuchi Research Fellowship, 2009