asgar hosseinzadeh; ghodratollah heydari; hosein barani; hasan zali
Volume 24, Issue 3 , October 2017, , Pages 513-523
Seyyedeh Zohreh Mirdeilami; Adel Spehri; Hosein Barani
Volume 24, Issue 2 , July 2017, , Pages 291-308
Abstract
Problems of Iranian rangelands are numerous and providing solutions for them is impossible except through comprehensive investigation. The purpose of this study was to extract the management structure of Iranian rangelands. The study tools were questionnaires and interview. This study was conducted in ...
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Problems of Iranian rangelands are numerous and providing solutions for them is impossible except through comprehensive investigation. The purpose of this study was to extract the management structure of Iranian rangelands. The study tools were questionnaires and interview. This study was conducted in three stages of exploration, evaluation, and analysis and extraction of the final structure. In the exploratory stage, the position of different parts of Iran's rangeland management structure was purposefully determined with a survey of experts in education, research, and executive sectors as well as rangeland exploiters. In this stage, the initial hierarchical structure of the factors influencing management of rangelands was designed (panel section). In the evaluation stage, using the questionnaire, the structure was subjected to the judgment of the responsive communities. In the final stage, using statistical analysis of data, the final hierarchical structure was extracted and designed. The accuracy and reliability of the resulting model was evaluated using Cronbach's coefficient. In this study, the statistical software SPSS 18 and STATISTICA were used. According to the results, Iran’s rangeland system consists of three levels in a hierarchical manner. Rangeland arena, education and research system, executive system and exploitation system are located in the first level. Each component at the first level was subdivided into its sub-components at lower levels. This structure more accurately categorizes the problems and makes it more understandable and more manageable. In this way, more strategic and managerial actions could be taken at each level and component.
Morteza Mofidi chelan; hosein Barani; Ahmad Abedi sarvestani; javad Moetamedi; Alireza darban Astane
Volume 24, Issue 2 , July 2017, , Pages 309-324
Abstract
Evaluation of environmental-ecological sustainability is considered as one of the most important tools in sustainable development planning process. Therefore, attention to this issue is inevitable in policy-making and planning. There are no definite indices in relation to assessing environmental-ecological ...
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Evaluation of environmental-ecological sustainability is considered as one of the most important tools in sustainable development planning process. Therefore, attention to this issue is inevitable in policy-making and planning. There are no definite indices in relation to assessing environmental-ecological sustainability in rangelands and range allotments. Consequently, developing and validating of environmental sustainability evaluation indices in order to assessing sustainability in range allotments seem to be necessary. In the present study, 40 assessing indices of environmental-ecological sustainability were studied through exploratory interviews and literature review and then were subjected to the judgment of university professionals, experts and local elites using questionnaires. For validation and consensus, in addition to descriptive statistics, Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance was used. Indices like animal diversity, visual quality, sonic pollution level and air pollution level received low scores due to lack of suitability with rangeland allotments in regional scale. Among the indices, the highest and lowest scores were related to rangeland area and air pollution level, respectively. In the present study, 16 indices, as six components, were introduces, which could be a start point for developing a national model of evaluating sustainability indices, creating database of sustainability indices and quantifying them for obtaining sustainable development in natural resources, especially rangelands. Also, executive organizations could apply these indices for improving rangelands and beneficiaries’ condition as well as moving toward sustainability.
Hossein Badripour; Hosein Barani; Seyed Mahmoud Aghili; Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani
Volume 24, Issue 2 , July 2017, , Pages 325-337
Abstract
Livestock keeping is one of the activities of rural households to maintain their needs. In Hable Rud basin like any other place in the country, livestock keeping has been common from the past. Until some time ago, a huge population immigrated into Hable Rud basin due to its high potential for agriculture ...
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Livestock keeping is one of the activities of rural households to maintain their needs. In Hable Rud basin like any other place in the country, livestock keeping has been common from the past. Until some time ago, a huge population immigrated into Hable Rud basin due to its high potential for agriculture and livestock keeping from other parts of the country but nowadays, many people emigrate from the area due to some reasons. Demographic data and socio-economic information revealed family size decrease, population ageing, fertility decline, high percentage of literacy, and in other words human capital of households living in the area has changed. Livestock keeping is an activity requiring continuous labor force, and a change in human capital would lead to a change in the form and condition of livestock keeping among rural households of the area. Thus, a study was conducted in the Damavand and Firoozkouh townships in the northern Hable Rud and Eivanaki and Aradan townships in the southern Hable Rud. The field survey method was applied for this study and researchers collected the data by questionnaires with the reliability of 78% according to the Cronbach's Alpha. In order to analyze the rural farmers' dependence on rangeland, nominal logistic regression was used by SPSS version 22. The study factors were family size, number of males, age of household head, household head's years of education, number of family members graduated from high school and university, family members' average years of education and human capital. According to the obtained results, among independent variables, just household head's age and education class affected the dependence of rural framers on rangeland and these factors could explain the dependence on rangeland varying between 8.6 to 11.5%.