Mehdi Ghorbani; Jamileh Salimi Kouchi; Payam Ebrahimi; Sareh Rasekhi
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Today the concept of participatory management is a functional and modern approach in the management of natural areas. This approach is a comprehensive approach to personal and group stakeholder participation to achieve sustainable management and empowerment of local communities. Therefore, identifying ...
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Today the concept of participatory management is a functional and modern approach in the management of natural areas. This approach is a comprehensive approach to personal and group stakeholder participation to achieve sustainable management and empowerment of local communities. Therefore, identifying and realizing the most influential actors in local decisions is important step. The aim of this study was to determine social powers and key stakeholders in the period before and after running a local community project in network of local stakeholders. This study have been carried out through questionnaires and direct interviews with members of split Rural Development Committee, in the Sarayan watershed in South Khorasan province is covered by RFLDL international projects. For this purpose, ties of trust and partnership with local stakeholder network using quantitative indicators were analyzed at the micro level. This article analyzes the position of the local development groups and determines the key actors in terms of authority, influence and intermediation before and after the empowerment project. The results show that the centralisation before and after the run is reduced. It is claim that this project reduces centralization in network structure and strengthens trust and participation between stakeholder that has an important role in establishment of natural resourses participatory management and rural development.
khadijeh rahimi balkanlou; Mehdi Ghorbani; mohammad jafari; ali tavili
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One of the most important preparation steps of co-management projects implementation is recognizing key actors at local community level. These actors can assist managers and planners as local leaders and social powers. By applying social network analysis and centrality index at actors’ level of ...
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One of the most important preparation steps of co-management projects implementation is recognizing key actors at local community level. These actors can assist managers and planners as local leaders and social powers. By applying social network analysis and centrality index at actors’ level of “Goormomenin” common rangeland, Kalateh region, Daamghan city in this research, social powers and local leaders in co-management procedures were identified. By social network analysis system, in-degree, out-degree centrality and betweenness centrality at actors level were studied based on trust and cooperation matrices and a combination matrix. According to the results, one of the stakeholders “Go-Bi” is a key actor in this rangeland. Based on core-periphery index, central and peripheral actors and density were identified. Having much authority and social influence, actors at central group play key role in rangeland co-management. Before implementing natural resource management projects, recognizing these actors can help governmental organizations to develop trust among villagers so that propel successful co-management procedures. These people create bridging ties between public institutions and stakeholders in rural sustainable development plans.
Mahdi Ghorbani; Mahrou Dehbozorgi
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Nowadays, a lot of natural resource co-management plans due to lack of attention to stakeholders’characteristics and position in network of social relationships have failed. Actors or key personnel’srecognition has been one of administrative requirement of natural resources co-management ...
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Nowadays, a lot of natural resource co-management plans due to lack of attention to stakeholders’characteristics and position in network of social relationships have failed. Actors or key personnel’srecognition has been one of administrative requirement of natural resources co-management plans.The most influential actors in environmental decisions making can be identified based on stakeholdersand network analysis. This study is aimed to determine the social powers based on network analysisapproach and stakeholders analysis at the local users level of common rangeland of Nariyan village inTaleghan region. In this study, first, Rangeland users were identified based on survey methods thentrust and cooperation matrixes are produced and then degree centralities index and betweennesscentrality were computed by questionnaire finally each actor’s topology has shown in the network.The result of this research is effective in identifying actors with central position that perform a keyrole in Nariyan rangeland co-management plan. Also, the result of this study can assist naturalresource managers and planers in identifying social powers in order to organize and implement thesustainable landscape management plans.
