Hydro-social Cohesion

Khaneiki, Majid Labbaf

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“…According to hydro-social studies, the flow of water is considered a hybridised socio-natural phenomenon that inexorably connects nature and society. It is both a physical and social process (Labbaf Khaneiki, 2020; Swyngedouw, 2009). This paper, drawing inspiration from Swyngedouw’s comprehensive study of the political economy and ecology of the hydro-social cycle, posits a close interconnection between the sociotechnical structure of the hydro-social cycle, the corresponding power geometries that control access to and exclusion from water, and the unequal political power relations that impact water flows.…”

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Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation

Hassaniyan

2024

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Water exhibits various politico-economic dynamic. Water scarcity can lead to conflicts, and it lies at the core of Iran’s environmental crises. The literature on Iran’s water crisis indicates the effects of this issue in terms of multidimensional environmental degradation, community disintegration, and state-society and intercommunal conflict. Approximately 28 million of Iran’s 85 million residents reside in water-stressed areas, a situation identified as ‘water bankruptcy’. The water shortage is experienced differently across the country. The plateau’s central regions, home to Iran’s major industries, are where the worst water deficit is occurring. However, regions with abundant water resources have also been impacted. These regions – known as ‘donor basins’ – due to intensive and disproportional inter-basin water transfer and other engineering interventions deployed by the Government to deal with the water shortage of the central regions, suffer from a different form of water crisis. A condition of asymmetrical and conflictual power relations between the state and subaltern communities in Iran’s peripheral regions has been created. This paper argues that this constitutes environmental racism, characterised by multilayered impoverishment and unsustainable development among communities in the donor regions.

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Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation

Hassaniyan

2024

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Hydro-social Cohesion

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Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation

Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation

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