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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mostafaei, Aziz
• Taheri, Kamal
• Parise, Mario
• Hashemi, Sayed Mukhtar
• Khaledi, Pouria

Titel

Hawraman Summer Camps: The Last Legacy of Water Scarcity Adaptation in the Western Zagros Karst Territory

Ist Teil von

• Recent Research on Environmental Earth Sciences, Geomorphology, Soil Science, Paleoclimate, and Karst, p.227-230

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland

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• For several thousand years, the inhabitants of Hawraman Karstic region in Western Iran have adapted to the changing conditions of karst water. These summer pastures perched on the high karsts are always located not far from small sources of water, which often dry up at the end of the summer. Three conventional methods for supplying water to the Hawraman karst plateau and the adjacent mountains have been commonly used for several millenniums. The first method is gathering water from trapped ice and snow in the shafts at an altitude above 2000 m. In this instance, springs water and rivers base flow are used by gardens. The second method is to dig an artificial well in the epikarst in the plateau land of the karst territory of Makwan and Atashgah Karst Mountains. This method allows the margins of karst springs in the warm season to use wild animals and to carry water for livestock on the excavated dug wells. The water and melted snow are directed to these wells during the cold seasons of the year. The third method is constructing a small artificial lake (Gemi) that stores similar to ponds in karst high plateau depressions. This paper presents a conceptual model of human-karst interaction in the Western Zagros by drawing the time movements of Kurdish herders and their spatial territory in the karst regions of Hawraman.