Measuring the sustainability of the institutional dimension of watershed projects on a local scale with the approach of social network analysis in Katouye, Kal and Bahrestan villages, south of Fars province

Document Type : Research

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1 Natural Resources & watershed management organization

2 Associate Professor; Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

3 Professor Danshmdh Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Range and Watershed Management, University of Hormozgan

10.22092/wmrj.2023.361419.1525

Abstract

Considering the recent droughts and the sharp drop in underground water reserves in most of the country's plains, aquifer projects have been receiving more and more attention as a suitable and effective solution. Among the issues that are always discussed in watershed projects is the issue of sustainability assessment in various environmental, economic, social and especially institutional dimensions. In this research, the evaluation of the sustainability of the institutional dimension in the south of Fars province (Iran) with a focus on three aquifer projects (artificial recharge) of Katoye Larestan, Kal Lamard and Baherstan Moher, which were implemented in the years 2009, 2007 and 2007, respectively, in The local scale has been investigated using the social network analysis method in five steps as follows. a), the two criteria of trust and cooperation were selected through the consensus of experts and by the classic Delphi method.b) social relations networks include referring to the administrations, cooperation of the administrations, willingness to cooperate with the administrations, responsibility in solving the problem, villagers effective in solving the problem of water scarcity and experts effective in solving the issue. Water scarcity was defined for all three villages of Katoiyeh with a population of 474 people, Kal with a population of 1801 people and Behrestan with a population of 749 people.c)the relevant questionnaire was designed based on defined social relations networks. The number of completed questionnaires for the villages of Katuyeh, Kal and Behrestan is 25, 60 and 20 respectively.d) the information obtained from the questionnaires by village was entered into the UCINET software. Then the relevant graphs were drawn and density and centrality measures (degree and betweenness) were calculated to evaluate the two criteria of trust and cooperation.e) the two topics of "cooperation of administrations" and "inclination to cooperate with administrations" were selected for two criteria of cooperation and trust, respectively, and the stability status of these two criteria was determined in the three target villages. The results showed that in Katwieh, the degree of stability of the standard of cooperation was 3.3 (moderate stability) and for the standard of trust it was determined to be 3.3 (moderate stability). Or average stability is estimated. In Kal , the degree of stability for the two criteria of cooperation and trust was obtained as 2.7 and 2.3 respectively, and in total, the degree of stability in the institutional dimension for Kal village was estimated as 2.5 or almost unstable to medium stability. In Bahristan the degree of stability of the cooperation standard is 3 (moderate stability) and for the standard of trust it is 1.7 (almost unstable), and in total the degree of stability in the institutional dimension for Bahrestan is estimated to be 2.4 or almost unstable.

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Watershed Management Research Journal

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Available Online from 21 June 2023

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  • Receive Date: 07 February 2023
  • Revise Date: 06 June 2023
  • Accept Date: 21 June 2023

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