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.
Davood Hasanabadi; Ahmad Haj-Alizadeh; Masood Heidarvand
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Social capital is one of the main factors for local sustainable development and social empowerment. The objective of present research is social capital assessment to achieve local sustainable development in Se-Qaleh city, Sarayan district in South Khorasan province, where the international RFLDL project ...
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Social capital is one of the main factors for local sustainable development and social empowerment. The objective of present research is social capital assessment to achieve local sustainable development in Se-Qaleh city, Sarayan district in South Khorasan province, where the international RFLDL project was implemented. In this research, the level of trust and cooperation ties in the stakeholder’s network was assessed in two stages i.e. before and after implementing the RFLDL project using network analysis questionnaires based on observation and interview with all stakeholders and also through the measurement of network analysis indicators including; density, reciprocity, transitivity and average of geodesic distance. The results of this study show the amount of trust and cooperation or social capital before implanting the RFLDL project was in moderate status but it increased post project implementation. The rate of trust and cooperation exchanges among people after implementing the project grew higher than before. Implementing this project as well enhanced the unity among the people.
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.
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.