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Drawing on the author’s framing in the foreword, the work connects present climate-change pressures with lessons from past civilizations that sustained populations despite natural limitations. It highlights adaptation as a practical pathway alongside emissions mitigation, emphasizing historical experience as guidance for living in harmony with nature.","Majid Labbaf Khaneiki  \nCultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization  \nCultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization  \nMajid Labbaf Khaneiki  \nCultural Dynamics of Water in Iranian Civilization  \n1 3  \nMajid Labbaf Khaneiki UNESCO ICQHS Yazd, Iran  \nISBN 978-3-030-58899-1 ISBN 978-3-030-58900-4 (eBook)  \n[https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58900-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58900-4)  \n© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020  \nThis work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed.  \nThe use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, [etc. in](etc. in) this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use.  \nThe publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.  \nThis Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland  \nForeword  \nOur history is awash with many pandemics that blighted many civilizations in the world, such as the pandemic that crippled both Athens and Sparta amid Peloponnesian War in 430 BC, or the plague of Justinian that swept away the Byzantine Empire between 541 and 750 AD. The modern history has not been spared from such pandemics, as the Spanish flu proved to be one of the deadliest calamities that afflicted human societies after the world war one. Even our recent scientific and technological breakthroughs could not have shielded us from such pandemics as COVID-19 that is rampaging through almost all cities and villages in the world claiming tens of thousands of lives, just when I am writing this foreword. Such historical experiences are so horrific that one may come to think about those pandemics as doomsday scenarios taking our species to the brink of extinction. But nothing seems to have been able to scale down the vanity of our modern civilization, even another silent pandemic that dwarfs Coronavirus.  \nClimate change is creeping into every aspect of our social life, and inflicted irreversible damages on a vast area from the North Pole to Antarctica, from as tiny as a phytoplankton to as big as a blue whale. This pandemic is transmittable not only to every individual but also to every creature and every landscape and is looming larger and larger every year. All scientific estimates show that this pandemic would be more devastating than any pandemic that humankind has ever gone through over the course of history. That is why the Swedish non-profit Global Challenges Foundation has ranked climate change third among the deadliest threats to humanity after nuclear wars and chemical-biological attacks, whereas a pandemic like COVID-19 has been ranked fifth.  \nIn the wake of a pandemic, all scientists and laboratories from across the globe bend over backward to find an urgent remedy in order to make humans invincible against the new diseases. 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