Kobr Karimi; Esmail Karamidehkordi; Matthias Buchecker
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The Carbon Sequestration Project has been an important international initiative for natural resources management and climate change reduction measures over the past two decades.It has tried to involve rural households in all stages of the project to achieve environmental, economic,social and human goals. ...
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The Carbon Sequestration Project has been an important international initiative for natural resources management and climate change reduction measures over the past two decades.It has tried to involve rural households in all stages of the project to achieve environmental, economic,social and human goals. A number of factors can affect relevant stakeholders’ participation in carbon sequestration project activities.This study aimed to investigate the socio-economic factors affecting the participation of rural households in the Qom province, using a survey with a descriptive-correlational approach. A sample of 265 households out of 840 rural households was selected using a simple random sampling method in five villages where this project was implemented.The data were collected using a structured interview technique by a questionnaire and analyzed using the SPSS22 and AMOS software.The results showed that rural people had highly been involved in the less active participation stages, such as expert consultation with council members and village elders, where as they had poor contribution to the projects through collaborative or spontaneous involvements.The most important factors affecting the participation of rural households in the carbon sequestration project were identified to be variables such as social capitals; extension programs; implemented conservation projects; agricultural and non-agricultural diversification initiatives in carbon sequestration projects; the land area of households’ permanent crop; and their agricultural income.Promoting social capital through extension programs, and applying a combination of conservation and livelihood diversification measures can not only strengthen the participation of rural communities in natural resource management projects but also increase the success of these projects.
S.Mahdi Taghipour; Shahram Khalighi Sigaroodi; Amir Alambaigi
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All rural and nomadic communities reside in natural watershed areas and, based on the specific climatic and geological conditions that each catchment area has, they are useful for living. Today, there is a danger to the livelihoods of non-residents as well as climate change caused by human activities, ...
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All rural and nomadic communities reside in natural watershed areas and, based on the specific climatic and geological conditions that each catchment area has, they are useful for living. Today, there is a danger to the livelihoods of non-residents as well as climate change caused by human activities, in other words, global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels. Accordingly, in this study, using the indices defined in the natural, social, physical, human and economic parameters, we examine the amount of five effective capital in the capacity of watershed adaptation to the climate change phenomenon in the three villages of Haji Abad, Gisur and Noodat Pashang In Gonabad city. In this study, due to climate homogeneity, 3 villages in the dry climate of Gonabad city have been selected. In this research, based on the questionnaire, the size of each of the five indicators and the organized interviews with the target groups in the three villages of the desert region were 3.13, 3.39, 3.14, 3.26, 7.2 was calculated. Also, using the Freeman test, it was found that there is a significant difference between different capital, which, respectively, social, human, physical, natural and economic, have the greatest impact on the capacity of aquaculture adaptation, so it is better to solve The watershed problem has used social and human capital to inflate other (physical, natural, and economic) capital