Iran's water crisis: Cultural, political, and ethical dimensions
Iran's water crisis: Cultural, political, and ethical dimensions
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1021268621490
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发表时间：
2002-12-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Foltz, RC
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作者：
Foltz, RC
到2001年夏天，伊朗大部分地区遭受了三年的干旱，这是近年来最严重的一次。德黑兰和其他城市实行了配水，该国的大部分农作物和牲畜都在死亡。然而，伊朗的许多学者和其他专家坚持认为，水危机只是部分与干旱有关，并声称水资源管理不善是更重要的原因。在这种讨论的背后是一个复杂的重叠但往往相互冲突的伦理体系--伊朗人、伊斯兰人和现代主义者/实业家--这些制度可以为伊朗的水政策提供信息。回顾了关于危机性质和提出的各种解决方案的各种论点，包括伊朗传统水资源管理的先例和伊斯兰法律中的用水道德，表明伊朗自身的文化遗产为大规模采用西方模式提供了替代方案。
By the summer of 2001, most of Iran had been suffering a three-year drought, the worst in recent history. Water rationing was in place in Tehran and other cities, and large proportions of the country's crops and livestock were perishing. Yet many academics and other experts in Iran insist that the water crisis is only partly drought-related, and claim that mismanagement of water resources is the more significant cause. Underlying this discussion is a complex of overlapping yet often conflicting ethical systems - Iranian, Islamic, and modernist/industrialist - which are available to inform water policy in Iran. A review of the various arguments about the nature of the crisis and the range of solutions that have been proposed, including precedents from traditional Iranian water management and the ethics of water use in Islamic law, suggests that Iran's own cultural heritage provides alternatives to wholesale adoption of Western models.