Seyed Jafar Seyed Akhlaghi; Maedeh Yousefian; Davod Darvishi; Daryoush Ghorbanian
Volume 30, Issue 3 , January 2024, , Pages 381-394
Abstract
Background and objectivesAccording to the law on the protection and exploitation of forests and pastures, any exploitation of natural resources by natural or legal persons must be done with the approval and permission of the country's natural resources and watershed management organization. Issuing grazing ...
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Background and objectivesAccording to the law on the protection and exploitation of forests and pastures, any exploitation of natural resources by natural or legal persons must be done with the approval and permission of the country's natural resources and watershed management organization. Issuing grazing and grazing permits is one of the most important permits in the natural resources sector, which has its own implementation process. The evidence shows that there are various issues and problems in the process of issuing this license, and it is necessary to conduct a pathological scientific investigation to improve and correct the said process. The aim of the current research is to identify and categorize the existing damages in the process of issuing and renewing livestock grazing permits in pastures. MethodologyThis research is qualitative in nature and the technique of interviewing with focus groups has been used, in this research 96 beneficiaries and 31 experts from 6 provinces of Kerman, Isfahan, Hamadan, Kurdistan, Mazandaran and Semnan were purposefully selected and their opinions about the process and issues of livestock grazing licensing were analyzed using questionnaires and interviews, and the results were collected and analyzed using the content analysis technique. ResultsThe results of this survey led to the identification and confirmation of 30 types of damage and problems in the process of issuing and renewing livestock grazing licenses in the form of three main categories (systemic, legal, and structural-executive), which in the branch of systemic problems, the component of multiple systems and the lack of a system integrated and intelligent, in the branch of legal obstacles, the component of time-consuming investigation of legal violations of applicants for grazing license renewal, division of grazing license among the children after the death of the owner of the grazing license, and in the branch of structural problems, the component of the weakness of monitoring and monitoring systems, lack of update of livestock and pasture statistical information , the low motivation of audit experts of natural resources departments and the lack of provincial credits have played the biggest role in the process of issuing grazing permits. Based on the results of this study, the issuing process in the investigated provinces takes 15 steps and 73 days, and the process of renewing the license is done in 8 days. ConclusionIn a general formulation and based on the findings and considering the problems that were stated before, in order to improve the process of issuing and renewing the Kera license, there is a need to take measures, for this purpose, it is necessary to create an integrated system, optimize the notification system, and automatically renew. Grazing license should be prioritized for responsible livestock farmers, updating information on livestock, pastures and determining the exact boundary of pastures and correcting or removing disturbing rules and instructions.
Reza Hoseinpour; Ali Akbar Mehrabi
Volume 11, Issue 2 , August 2019, , Pages 119-136
Mohammad Khorshidi; Naser Ansari
Volume 10, Issue 1 , August 2019, , Pages 95-110
Seyed Farzad Sajadi; Mohamad Badsar; Gholamreza Mojaradi
Volume 25, Issue 3 , November 2018, , Pages 489-499
Abstract
Rapid population growth and ever-increasing demand for food lead to increase the exploitation of natural resources compared to the previous period and the continuation of this trend could lead to negative consequences and environmental crises, threatening human security and ecosystems. ...
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Rapid population growth and ever-increasing demand for food lead to increase the exploitation of natural resources compared to the previous period and the continuation of this trend could lead to negative consequences and environmental crises, threatening human security and ecosystems. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the status of natural resources in West of Kurdistan Province and the role of defense actions on natural resources crisis management. The population of this study consisted of the villagers of West of Kurdistan Province (N = 133837). The sample size was calculated to be 220 using Cochran's formula. The data were collected using a questionnaire. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by panel of experts and the reliability of instrument was confirmed by conducting a pre-test and calculating a Cronbach's alpha coefficient more than 0.70 for different sections of the questioner. The data analysis was performed using SPSs20 software. The findings showed that from the perspective of 95% of respondents, the degradation of natural resources is evaluated at a high level. The results also showed that the defense actions including passive defense and the level of satisfaction from defense operating actions had a significant negative effect on the degradation of natural resources in the study area. Also, the results showed that 41.7% of the variations of the natural resources degradation was explained by defense activities.
Ahmad Abedisarvestani; Abbas Kargar; Rahim Saie Choghan
Volume 9, Issue 3 , September 2001, , Pages 1217-1236