چکیده:
The Roodashtin plain, or Roodasht, is among the ancient rural areas of the Zayandeh Rud irrigation basin, which holds valuable treasures of management traditions, including management of nature and human communities. Recognizing these traditions will enable rural development planners to gain a proper understanding of the principles and rules required to attract rural participation in development matters. This plain is one of the oldest irrigation areas of the Zayandeh Rud, which has never been able to utilize river water without the construction of diversion dams in the river's path. For this reason, since ancient times, due to the extent and length of its agricultural area along the river course (about 50 kilometers) and more than 16,000 hectares of annual cultivated area, its people have been inevitably forced to construct diversion dams in the path of the Zayandeh Rud. The related costs were provided by the owners of the water-fed lands based on the ownership pattern. The provision of costs for planning and implementing programs also had specific regulations and criteria, the basis of which was founded on the specific logic of traditional rural cooperation. This article, which is a documentary-field study, while introducing several characteristics of the Roodasht or Roodashtain plain in Isfahan, examines one of the documents related to the participation of villagers in the construction of diversion dams for the Zayandeh Rud water (Shanzdeh deh Band, one of the largest diversion dams of this river) without direct government participation in management, capital provision, or even support. Through this, an effort has been made to extract the criteria and regulations governing this type of participation and similar cases from the reconstruction contract of the aforementioned dam. This study ultimately shows the regulations and principles of traditional rural cooperation in medium-scale works on hydraulic structures of large river basins and serves as evidence of the villagers' ability to mobilize forces, organize, and manage collective movements on a large geographical scale in Iran.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Traditional Cooperation in the Reconstruction of an Old Dam (Shanzdeh-deh Band, Zayandeh-rud Basin) Seyyed Hassan Hosseini Abri* Abstract: The Roodashtain plain, part of the ancient rural areas of the Zayandeh-rud irrigation basin, contains valuable treasures of management traditions, both in managing nature and human societies.
For this reason, since ancient times, due to the extent and length of its agricultural area along the river (approximately 50 kilometers) and more than 16,000 hectares of annual cultivated area, its people have been constantly forced to construct diversion dams in the path of the Zayandeh-rud.
This article, which is a documentary-field study, while introducing several characteristics of the Roodasht or Roodashtain plain in Isfahan, examines one of the documents related to the participation of villagers in the construction of diversion dams for the Zayandeh-rud water (Shanzdeh-deh Band, one of the largest diversion dams of this river) without direct government participation in management, capital provision, or even support.
On the other hand, the distribution of general expenses by the helpers is easily acceptable (the share related to the material customs of the 'salar', meaning the cost of providing the wage for the dam irrigation manager), which in the text of the contract was not felt necessary to mention as a matter of public acceptance.
In short, the reconstruction contract of the 'shanzdah deh' dam, which was drafted before the land reforms and the collapse of the social system of Iranian villages, is considered a type of traditional model contract of cooperation and collective participation in the management of rural production resources.
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