Fatemeh Einloo; Mohammad Reza Ekhtesasi; Mehdi Ghorbani; Parviz Abdinejad; Reza Anjomshoaa
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One of the integrated water resources management requirements based on participatory management planning is identification and analysis of key stakeholders. Identifying structural aspects of organizational stakeholder's network can be evaluated using social network analysis and their position and role ...
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One of the integrated water resources management requirements based on participatory management planning is identification and analysis of key stakeholders. Identifying structural aspects of organizational stakeholder's network can be evaluated using social network analysis and their position and role for inter-organizational integration and coordination in water resources management can be determined. In this study, using social network analysis method, stakeholders related to participatory governance of Abhar plain water resources, including 20 organizational stakeholders were analyzed and policy indicators were evaluated at the level of the network of organizational stakeholders. Indices of density, size, reciprocity, transitivity, centralization and geodesic distance in network of relationships at the macro level, core-peripheral index in the middle scale and centrality indicators at the micro scale of network were examined. Rate of network density index is moderate and according to index of reciprocity, moderate amount of bilateral and reciprocal relations among organizational actors, cohesion and organizational capital are assessed as moderate. According to transitivity index, stability and balance of information exchange network is low. Analysis of core-periphery index of stakeholder's network shows a higher density of links and greater organizational cohesion among central organizations compared to peripheral subgroup and amount of information exchange between central and peripheral subgroups was evaluated as moderate. Based on centrality indicators, geometric position of each actor in network was determined. For decision-making, planning, policy-making and participatory governance of water resources in Abhar Plain, key and effective organizations and political forces, as well as organizations with low power and marginalized, were identified.
Mehdi Ghorbani; Vahid Jafarian; Mohammad Reza Yazdani; Mahsa Abdolshahnejad
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Achieving integrated natural resource management fundamentally needs effective and coordinatedrelationship, collaboration, and synergy among various actors who have common but differentresponsibilities. In this sense, the foundation of comprehensive and integrated management is notcompatible with centralization ...
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Achieving integrated natural resource management fundamentally needs effective and coordinatedrelationship, collaboration, and synergy among various actors who have common but differentresponsibilities. In this sense, the foundation of comprehensive and integrated management is notcompatible with centralization and top-down strategies. The aim of this paper is analysis of networkand organizational cohesion of natural resources stakeholders in Semnan province. In this study,relations of existing organizations within the network have been investigated based on interorganizationalinformation transfer and collaboration through social network analysis method andapplying macro-level and middle indexes of institutional network including; the network size,density, ties reciprocity, and centralization at macro-level and core-periphery index at middle level.Policy monitoring emphasized in present paper’s title refers to this question that how successfullynatural resource integrated management policies have been realized at least within the fourth andfifth development programs. Therefore, present study is an attempt to address this questionquantitatively and relying on the results of indexes of structural analysis of natural resourcestakeholders’ network in the pilot area. The results of this study indicate that institutional cohesionis 40 percent (poor) and sustainability of institutional network based on reciprocity is about 47percent (medium). Additionally the core-periphery index showed that the density of institutionalnetwork of Semnan province in core actors’ subgroup is 77 percent and in periphery actors’subgroup is 25 percent. Research findings identify existing capacities for applyin integrated naturalresources management and reveal the necessity of reducing network centralization andstrengthening the relationship among various stakeholders of this section.
