Iran's Environmental Challenges and Movements on the Margins: Beyond the Centre

By Allan Hassaniyan

This book shifts the focus of Iran's environmental crises from policy failures and technocratic mismanagement to the lived experiences of those at the periphery: non-Persian national communities, rural populations, farmers and displaced peoples. Drawing on original narratives and critical analysis, it reveals how water scarcity, mega-dams, interbasin water transfers and unsustainable development intersect with long histories of marginalisation, extractive industries and securitised state responses. Allan Hassaniyan highlights how environmental degradation has become a matter of survival for Iran's subalterns, exposing the deeply political dimensions of Iranian ecology.

Bridging environmental studies, political ecology and critical area studies, this timely work fills a significant gap in English-language scholarship, as well as spotlighting the unequal and often devastating consequences of the state's environmental crisis for its most vulnerable communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399563262
• ISBN13: 9781399563260
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 352 Pages