University of Tehran Iranian Journal of Public Policy 2538-5577 6 1 2020 05 21 Model-Based Solution for Water and Soil Resources Management: Opportunities and Threats Model-Based Solution for Water and Soil Resources Management: Opportunities and Threats 180 199 76995 10.22059/jppolicy.2020.76995 FA Sajedeh Safikhany Ph.D. Student of Watershed Management Science and Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan Arashk Holisaz Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran. Abdolreza Bahremand Associate Professor, Faculty of Natural Resource, University of Gorgan Mehdi Biniaz Instructor, Department of Natural Resources Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan Journal Article 2020 07 11 The development of the world towards a trend to model driven, nature management strictly has engaged with such structures that identified by models, So that nowadays, cognition of nature is confined to modeling and model application become a basic tool in cognition of environment. This survey through qualitative content analysis, emphasizing on water and soil models, specifies that acceptability of models correspond to economic-development policies. The results show the model is defined as tool that show environmental policies performance of managers and policy-makers. Furthermore, four relationship were extracted in understanding of political and framework of environmental models that model can't be cognition and analysis tool for understanding of epistemic framework of the environment. While tries to conceptualize relationship between policy and natural processes that policy-maker do policy making in the best way and model offers solutions to optimize policy-makers  management tasks when those is non-optimal. The development of the world towards a trend to model driven, nature management strictly has engaged with such structures that identified by models, So that nowadays, cognition of nature is confined to modeling and model application become a basic tool in cognition of environment. This survey through qualitative content analysis, emphasizing on water and soil models, specifies that acceptability of models correspond to economic-development policies. The results show the model is defined as tool that show environmental policies performance of managers and policy-makers. Furthermore, four relationship were extracted in understanding of political and framework of environmental models that model can't be cognition and analysis tool for understanding of epistemic framework of the environment. While tries to conceptualize relationship between policy and natural processes that policy-maker do policy making in the best way and model offers solutions to optimize policy-makers  management tasks when those is non-optimal. https://jppolicy.ut.ac.ir/article_76995_d70945e131caaf28af7fe8a0173b4e9c.pdf