Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Long-Term Perspective
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1 mars 2023
- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.acd80c...
- isbn: ISBN 978-94-6426-147-9
- hal: hal-04050853
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water resilience zagros interdisciplinarity Sasanian Empire water resilience Zagros interdisciplinary Sasanian Empire Zagros interdisciplinarySujets proches
Electoral politics Political behavior Politics Mass political behavior Practical politics Political thought Government Political theory Civil government Commonwealth, The Science, Political Administration Politics Politics and suffrage Government and politics Politics Political historyCiter ce document
Andrea Ricci et al., « Water Stress and Imperial Politics in the Southern Zagros Mountains: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Long-Term Perspective », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.acd80c...
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This paper aims to investigate episodes of water stress and the human response to them in the Southern Zagros Mountains from a long-term perspective. The integrative analysis of data from different archives allows for identification of phases of drought in the region, especially starting from the Sasanian period onwards. This investigation also shows that specific imperial politics such as that of the Sasanian Kings Kawāḏ I and Ḵosrow I helped to ensure that agricultural communities and practices were sufficiently resilient to these changes. These politics were essentially based on tax reliefs for in-need farmers and state investments on the micro-level. However, pastoral and multi-resources lifestyles remained the ultimate resilience strategies in case of severe aridification.
