Determinants of social sustainability of rangeland management among watershed basin Choghakhor beneficiaries of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province

Soultani, Haghir; Mahdavi, Seyedeh Khadijeh; Abdollahzadeh, Gholamhosein; Souri, Mahshid

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Volume 11, Issue 22 (9-2023)

PEC 2023, 11(22): 18-35

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Determinants of social sustainability of rangeland management among watershed basin Choghakhor beneficiaries of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province

Haghir Soultani¹

, Seyedeh Khadijeh Mahdavi ^*

, Gholamhosein Abdollahzadeh³

, Mahshid Souri⁴

1- Student of Rangeland PhD, Nour Branch,Islamic Azad University,Nour,Iran
Nour Branch,Islamic Azad University,Nour, Department of Natural Resource,Nour Branch,Islamic Azad University,Nour,Iran , kh_mahdavi@yahoo.com
3- Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agricultural Management, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
4- Rangeland Research Division, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization

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Relationships and Principled interaction between ranchers and rangelands play an important role in the sustainable management of rangeland. If rangelands are properly managed, they will be used for sustainable exploitation. One of the indicators of sustainability in rangeland management is the social dimension which various factors are involved. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of identifying social indicators in sustainable management of rangeland and the effective relationships of each of them on social sustainability of Choghakhor rangeland management in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province. The statistical population consisted of 103 competent ranchers in the rangeland, of which research data were collected from 83 of them as a sample size based on Krejcie Morgan's table. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on the information obtained from field interviews. After summarizing the data, the analysis was done in two parts, descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of structural equation modeling showed that social sustainability in rangeland management was positively and significantly affected by seven indicators of knowledge and awareness of livestock and rangeland, skill and ability level in livestock and rangeland affairs, level of livestock participation, level of correlation and the cohesion of ranchers , the level of social interaction in ranchers and the level of ranchers' satisfaction are at the level of 99% confidence and the level of responsibility and cooperation of ranchers are at the level of 95% confidence. The importance of social issues in rangeland management requires policies and rangeland management macro-programs with a comprehensive approach and with a precise definition of social indicators in rangeland management according to the position of ranchers can be beneficiaries to sustainable social empowerment in Conducted protection and exploitation in rangeland.

Article number: 2

Keywords: Social sustainability, knowledge, Skills, Participation, Responsibility, Cohesion, Satisfaction

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Received: 2022/07/6 | Accepted: 2023/03/14 | Published: 2023/09/22

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