Irrigation and Society: The Iranian Plateau

TitleIrrigation and Society: The Iranian Plateau
Publication TypeBook Chapter
Year of Publication1974
AuthorsSpooner B
Book TitleIrrigation's Impact on Society
Chapter4
Pagination43-57
PublisherUniversity of Arizona Press
CityTucson, AZ, USA
Source DocumentAccessible with appropriate permission
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Deh Salm Irrigation System

Case
The case of Deh Salm Irrigation takes place in the village of Deh Salm, 100 km west of Neh, the southernmost administrative center of the province of Khorasan in eastern Iran. The resource appropriated from Deh Salm Irrigation is water for irrigation and domestic uses (e.g. general washing purposes). At the beginning of the period, there was an extreme shortage of biological and physical resources withdrawn compared to the number of units available. Cultivators of this irrigation system were...
09 Aug 2016

Nayband irrigation system

Case
The Nayband Irrigation system is located in The province of Khorasan in north eastern Iran. The original case was reported in 1971 and 1972, and catalogues an action situation involving approximately 80 agricultural related families. The resource appropriated related to the social dilemma is water for irrigation, which is delivered by canals.This case study is part of the original Common-Pool Resource (CPR) database. A summary of the original CPR coding conducted in the 1980s by Edella Schlager...
09 Aug 2016