Production and Water Culture
This chapter examines the cultural values of water division systems in the Iranian local communities. Water division system has been evolved by the local communities over hundreds of years ago in order to better adapt to their harsh environment. This chap
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Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization
Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization
Majid Labbaf Khaneiki
Cultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization
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Majid Labbaf Khaneiki UNESCO ICQHS Yazd, Iran
ISBN 978-3-030-58899-1 ISBN 978-3-030-58900-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58900-4
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Foreword
Our history is awash with many pandemics that blighted many civilizations in the world, such as the pandemic that crippled both Athens and Sparta amid Peloponnesian War in 430 BC, or the plague of Justinian that swept away the Byzantine Empire between 541 and 750 AD. The modern history has not been spared from such pandemics, as the Spanish flu proved to be one of the deadliest calamities that afflicted human societies after the world war one. Even our recent scientific and technological breakthroughs could not have shielded us from such pandemics as COVID-19 that is rampaging through almost all cities and villages in the world claiming tens of thousands of lives, just when I am writing this foreword. Such historical experiences are so horrific that one may come to think about those pandemics as doomsday scenarios taking our species to the brink of extinction. But nothing seems to have been able to scale down the vanity of our modern civilization, even another silent pandemic that dwarfs Coronavirus. Climate change is creeping into every aspect of our social life, and inflicted irreversible damages on a vast area from the North Pole to Antarctica, from as tiny as a phytoplankton
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