Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation
dc.contributor.author | Hassaniyan, A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-03T09:42:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-26 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-04-27T08:05:15Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 1-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 26 April 2024 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/03091333241252523 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/135843 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-0868-844X (Hassaniyan, Allan) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Request permissions for this article. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Water | en_GB |
dc.subject | inter-basin water transfer | en_GB |
dc.subject | environmental racism | en_GB |
dc.subject | dams | en_GB |
dc.subject | soft path | en_GB |
dc.subject | hard path | en_GB |
dc.subject | Iran | en_GB |
dc.title | Iran’s water policy: Environmental injustice and peripheral marginalisation | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-03T09:42:43Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0309-1333 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1477-0296 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Progress in Physical Geography | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2024-04-26 | |
dcterms.dateSubmitted | 2023-04-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2024-04-26 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-05-03T09:36:12Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-05-03T09:42:51Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2024-04-26 |
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