Abstract
Water is simply the substance of life, and so important a factor in organizing the life of human beings in particular that its shortage would result, among others in a variety of social problems. The aim of the present work is survey on the Social Consequences of Water Crisis in Ardakan township. The ...
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Water is simply the substance of life, and so important a factor in organizing the life of human beings in particular that its shortage would result, among others in a variety of social problems. The aim of the present work is survey on the Social Consequences of Water Crisis in Ardakan township. The method of this research is qualitative whose primary data and the statistical and background information are gathered respectively, through a semi-organized interview with a total of 22 experts and authorities of the region, and thematic analysis. The work is concluded with reflections on the particularly negative social feedback. Objective Social Consequences inclusive demographical changes , from the rise of unemployment and poverty along with the fall of life quality and the rise of violence, and Subjective Social Consequences inclusive cultural and religious shift of viewpoints, the loss of interpersonal trust and the social and political wealth and decrease of life expectancy.The results of this work, Negative Social Consequences in region, providence and contrast with environmental crisises suggest that defying with the water crisis is bound to better management of water resources, water-saving and improving the water-supply networks, and making farmers aware of using water as well as the traditional methods of water extraction in efficient ways.
nima shojaie
Abstract
The water crisis in Iran is so violent that Iranian social life can be thought of as possessed by the shattered environment. Meanwhile, it seems that the State has a key role to reverse this condition. But, we can ask whether the current Iranian State has the capability to do so, theoretically and practically? ...
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The water crisis in Iran is so violent that Iranian social life can be thought of as possessed by the shattered environment. Meanwhile, it seems that the State has a key role to reverse this condition. But, we can ask whether the current Iranian State has the capability to do so, theoretically and practically? To answer the question firstly, I will demonstrate that any resolution to water crisis in Iran demands social strategy(and not only economic strategy); secondly, historically speaking, the dominance of Capitalism-Colonialism paradigm both effects the politics of State on one side, and the Iranian social life on the other, resulting in the dominance of “Market System” mechanisms in political structure and its consequences on the economic and cultural structure hence the water crisis in Iran in recent years; thirdly, if the State were environmentalist, it could theoretically and practically “transform” the institutions which exacerbate the water crisis in Iran.
This paper, via historical and documentary studies, demonstrates that historically in Iran the phobia from Autocratic State results in the dominance of Capitalism-Colonialism paradigm in the decision-making system; consequently , mechanisms of “Market System” (privatization and to make competitive)are deemed as highly acceptable and win legitimacy in political as well as economic and cultural spheres. These exacerbate the water crisis thus the resolution lies in “transforming “of aforementioned paradigm through developing institutions pertaining to the “Environmentalist State”.
