A comprehensive assessment of nomadic needs, opportunities and policies.
Here's a whirlwind tour of "
Greater Iran" - regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence.
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It's been raining in Shiraz! Is it enough to turn Shiraz into a lush paradise? To stave off drought and destruction?
You may ask "
How much rain has fallen?", but the more important question is: "What happens to the rain
after it falls?"
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In his book, "
Seeing like a State", James C. Scott describes the mechanism at the heart of a state's (government's) tendency to sedenterize (settle) nomads as "the state's attempt to make a society legible." He further develops the thesis that
legibility is "a central problem of statecraft."
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If you take a look around Iran these days, much of it is badly desertified. You may attribute this to climate change or overgrazing, but the
"holistic resource management" (HRM) model offers an alternative view. How valid is this view? How can it be tested? The great thing about HRM is that it suggests a solution to the problem that shimmers with possibility and validates the nomadic lifestyle. For this reason alone, it bears investigating.
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A study used personal cell phone signals to track the movements of 100,000 Europeans. ُAmong the findings: most people rarely leave the vicinity of their home or office, remain within a 20 mile radius, visit the same places, and are usually found in the same spot at the same time.
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