Hossein Sarvi sadrabad; Iman Islami
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Water is one of the major sources of development in countries and one of the greatest challenges of the present century, which can be the source of many of the positive and negative developments in the world, and in fact destruction of water resources is the destruction of the foundations of development. ...
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Water is one of the major sources of development in countries and one of the greatest challenges of the present century, which can be the source of many of the positive and negative developments in the world, and in fact destruction of water resources is the destruction of the foundations of development. Researches has shown that improved management of conservation, exploitation and distribution of water resources is possible by reducing Governmental Entrepreneurship and stakeholders' participation and community participation through participatory management. Accordingly, social network analysis is considered as an approach to analyzing the relationships of local stakeholders for sustainable water resources management. The purpose of this research is to survey social network of local stakeholders using social network analysis in Sadr Abad village in Nodoushan catchment of Yazd. This research has been done on the basis of two connections of trust and participation using network level and subgroup level indicators. The results indicate that the degree of cohesion and social capital is moderate, and the stability and equilibrium of the network is also high, which indicates the high level of transmission in the relationships of trust and participation. Also, the correlation between the two connection of trust and participation, based on the QAP index, is 64 percent and it is appropriate and high level. Water management network in Sadrabad has the potential of greater cohesion and social capital, that prerequisite of it is to utilize the appropriate state of trust to increase participation.
roya vazirian; Ali Akbar Karimian; Alireza Afshani; Mohammad-Taghi Dastorani
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In Collaborative management of arid regions, it is necessary to analyze the social relationships between farmers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyze the social network of farmers in trust links and to participate in irrigation, marketing and cultivation activities in three villages ...
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In Collaborative management of arid regions, it is necessary to analyze the social relationships between farmers. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyze the social network of farmers in trust links and to participate in irrigation, marketing and cultivation activities in three villages of Aryan, Hareth Abad and Robat Sarpush in Sabzevar. For this purpose,in the firstusing with qualitative studies of survey approach,direct observation method and target population interview were identified. Then, the quantitative network analysis method, four important indices consist of "density", "reciprocity", "transitivity" and "average geodesic distance" in the links of trust and participation in agricultural activities of the farmers' network were evaluated. According to the results, the density of the four transplants was higher in Aryan village than the other villages, which is indicating more social cohesion in this village. The results of reciprocity and transitivity indexed in the studied links show more balance, equilibrium and stability of the network in Aryan village than the other villages, thus there is more social capital in this village. The average geodetic distance results also indicate the most favorable geodetic distance among the farmers in Aryan village. Increasing the cohesion and solidarity of these villages will speed up the flow of information and exchange, as well as increase social capital in them, and will help people to coordinate and access each other with less cost and time. Therefore, reinforcing trust and social participation is essential for increasing social capital as a necessity for participatory management
Mehdi Ghorbani; leila avazpour; sadegh heydari
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Governance of natural resources is currently hampered by abundant challenges. The way out of this dead-end is injecting kind of capital derived from people per se i.e. social capital which is unfortunately the missing part of collaborative governance of natural resources. The present study was an attempt ...
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Governance of natural resources is currently hampered by abundant challenges. The way out of this dead-end is injecting kind of capital derived from people per se i.e. social capital which is unfortunately the missing part of collaborative governance of natural resources. The present study was an attempt to evaluate the structural characteristics of out-group social capital in local beneficiaries’ network, in keeping with natural resource governance. It was conducted under the international RFLDL project in four regions of South Khorasan province. To measure the structural features of out-group social capital of local beneficiaries of each region, network analysis questionnaires were applied and there was a direct interview with network actors (heads of rural development micro committees) and their trust an participation ties were investigated. It was found out that post-RFLDL project implementation, trust and participation level or in other words the out-group social capital of each four regions escalated among heads of rural development micro committees. It can be asserted that natural resource governance will not actualize utterly and natural resource management will come to halt in a limited and stagnant framework, void of the participation of communities, where a mono-lateral power is exerted over decision-making around natural resource issues unless social capital develops among actors and they participate actively in this process.
