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Developing and validating of Appropriate Indices for Rural Resilience to draught (Case Study: Hableroud Watershed Basine)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 professor, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate professor, Forest Research Division, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

4 PhD Student in Geography Science, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Resilience indicators against environmental hazards are one of the basic criteria in planning and evaluating adaptation programs with the effects of natural hazards in rural areas. The present paper seeks to identify, formulate and validating of resilience indicators in rural areas to drought  so that planners and researchers can study these resiliency, drought and water crisis indicators, which are confirmed by and the agreement of experts and experts has come to the fore. The research method is descriptive-analytic, using questionnaires of experts and experts. In this research, different criteria and indices of theoretical literature were extracted and 35 questionnaires were subject to arbitration by experts and expert experts. In this research, 25 suitable indicators approved by experts, executive experts and local experts have been introduced. The most suitable indicators and the most consensus can be indicators such as: livelihoods of the household, the growth trend or decrease in the natural resources of the village, the probability of immigration from the village, access to various agricultural water resources, the level of agricultural land (ownership), the state of insurance coverage and Emergency services, agricultural development, household saving potential, and the prospects for non-farm business in the future. The results of this research can be the beginning for the development of a national model of rural resilience assessment indicators, the establishment of resilience index data banks and their quantitative reduction in order to achieve sustainable development and also reduce the effects of climate change and drought in rural areas of the country.

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Iranian Journal of Range and Desert Research
Volume 24, Issue 4
January 2018
Pages 881-896
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