According to experts, the inefficient agricultural sector has a dominant role in degrading water resources all over the world. Farmers’ conservational behavior is an important aspect of new integrated water management studies. Relevantly, various behavioral theories have been proposed in the field of environmental psychology. The main objective of the present comparative analysis and review stu...

besides being a literary work, the novel curse of the land (nefrin-e zamin) is a social document. in this great work, al-e ahmad intends to give a social analysis of this own era, and warn his readers against the devastating consequences of modernity. viewed from this perspective, it is regarded as his most sophisticated work representing his social thoughts and theories. in this paper an effor...

I n life and work, Claudio Bunster prefers extreme challenges. Bunster, a physicist who contemplates brain-warping theories of space and time, returned to his native Chile from the United States precisely when most intellectuals would have stayed clear— during the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. Shut out of the universities by the military government, he broke the conventional mold by foun...

For 1,500 years Jewish society had been designed to produce intellectuals. . . . Jewish society was geared to support them. . . . Rich merchants married sages’ daughters; . . . Quite suddenly, around the year 1800, this ancient and highly efficient social machine for the production of intellectuals began to shift its output. Instead of pouring all its products into the closed circuit of rabbini...