%0 Conference Paper
%A Yazdanpanah, M.
%A Thompson, M.
%A Linnerooth-Bayer, J.
%B IDRiM 2016 7th International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware Society
%C Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran
%D 2016
%F iiasa:13881
%K Water Crisis; Water Management; Government;Iran
%P 367-368
%T Do Iranian Policy Makers Truly Understand And Dealing with the Risk of Climate Change RegardingWater Resource Management?
%U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13881/
%X Iran faces a serious and worsening water crisis, and water conservation by its farmers is rightly seen as crucial to any  resolution. Since the hierarchically-bestowed large-scale dams and canals have delivered much less than was confidently expected, and since the individualistically-operated boreholes have resulted in the now widespread phenomenon of competitive deepening (groundwater depletion), these behavioural changes have turned out to be major contributors to Iran’s looming water super-crisis.