TY - CONF ID - iiasa13881 UR - https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13881/ A1 - Yazdanpanah, M. A1 - Thompson, M. A1 - Linnerooth-Bayer, J. Y1 - 2016/10// N2 - 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. KW - Water Crisis; Water Management; Government;Iran TI - Do Iranian Policy Makers Truly Understand And Dealing with the Risk of Climate Change RegardingWater Resource Management? SP - 367 M2 - Isfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran AV - public EP - 368 T2 - IDRiM 2016 7th International Conference on Integrated Disaster Risk Management Disasters and Development: Towards a Risk Aware Society ER -