University Of Tehran Press Pollution 2383-451X 11 3 2025 07 01 Regional Peace Theory: A Base for Regional Natural Hazards Reduction and Environment Sustainability Increase—Case Study: Danube and Tigris-Euphrates Basins (Towards a Scientific Golden Map) 715 737 100995 10.22059/poll.2025.382760.2567 EN Ebrahim Moghimi Department of Natural Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 0009-0002-5456-8622 Thomas Glade Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Universitaetsstr. 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria Journal Article 2024 09 23 Natural hazards manifest themselves in all scales of exploration. The Tigris and Euphrates basins in Southwest Asia and the Danube basin in the European continent are areas with dust and drought hazards. Therefore, to reduce vulnerability and manage drought and dust in the Tigris and Euphrates, regional peace must be established, and regional peace in the Danube basin must be strengthened. This article emphasizes establishing and strengthening regional peace as a systematic process to reduce vulnerability to natural hazards. The novelty of the article is that it: (A) emphasizes the regional scale to reduce the vulnerability of people and the environment to dust and drought hazards; (B) evaluates the adverse effects of political forces' actions in the realm of hazardous natural processes; (C) informs both the environment and political forces about the theory of establishing regional peace to reduce natural hazards; and (D) strengthens interdisciplinary research in natural hazards, environmental, and geopolitical sciences. The research method used in this article is historical-experimental. Also, using the comparative method and one-to-one correspondence, the geographical territory of political forces' actions was matched with the territory of natural hazardous processes. The result showed that strengthening the efficiency and effective cooperation of regional political forces and strengthening regional peace reduce the vulnerability caused by natural hazards. Accordingly, the theory of regional peace to reduce natural hazards was confirmed as a scientific golden map. https://jpoll.ut.ac.ir/article_100995_f4a537d29428749d5fffcbd1af387e92.pdf