The effect of social capital in mitigating drought impacts and improving livability of Iranian rural households

Savari, Moslem; Damaneh, Hamed Eskandari; Damaneh, Hadi Eskandari

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103630

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“…The integration of assets enables the development of a livelihood strategy since, in SLF; the methods for sustaining livelihoods are dependent on people's access to assets [ 47 ]. Thus, financial capital [ 50 , 51 ] refers to the financial resources available to households, such as annual income generated from on-farm, off-farm, and non-farm activities and savings. Financial assistance; supplies of credit; remittances; a salaried job; and access to a bank account are financial indicators [ 44 , 47 ].…”

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Assessing livelihood resilience in drought-affected areas: Lessons from Raya Kobo district, northeast Ethiopia

Molla,

Zeleke,

Tamiru

2024

Heliyon

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“…Social capital [ 44 ] includes proximity to relatives, political influence, group engagement, and the strength of the neighbourhood, which are resilient indicators. Resilience to drought necessitates components of social capital, including social awareness, group membership, social trust, and social participation [ 50 ].…”

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Assessing livelihood resilience in drought-affected areas: Lessons from Raya Kobo district, northeast Ethiopia

Molla,

Zeleke,

Tamiru

2024

Heliyon

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“…Many international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) have played a role in delivering humanitarian relief to drought victims (Savari et al, 2023). Approximately 50 INGOs, including the Norwegian Refugee Council, have collected donations to provide food for drought-affected Somalians.…”

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Emergency mitigation of drought worldwide: Qualitative descriptive design

2024

World Water Policy

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A popular idea is that slow‐moving droughts worldwide require long‐lasting emergency mitigation. In this article, we describe our study on how human society could improve its emergency mitigation of droughts for the ultimate objective of emergency management. The research methodology involved a qualitative descriptive design. As a paradigm shift, we initially examined middle‐term emergency mitigation to regional droughts to draw the implementation of long‐term emergency mitigation to regional droughts through three stakeholders (i.e., three analytical units such as international institutions, drought‐prone nations, and drought‐resistant nations). A major finding was that the three stakeholders should transform their current middle‐term drought mitigation strategies into long‐term drought mitigation ones. Based on the effectiveness of long‐term emergency mitigation, they must address multiple alternatives to include the strategic vision, Earth's community approach, social impacts of drought, drought fund initiative, lessons from few national cases (e.g., Australia and UAE), education, and scenario‐based training and could integrate droughts with other issues. It is advised that in the future, researchers will expand their study to encompass all nations worldwide.

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“…Reduction of biodiversity, rangeland degradation, pollution of groundwater reservoirs, and soil erosion are proven to have negative impacts of land‐use change on the environment (Dabija et al, 2022; Lemaire et al, 2014). Also, overgrazing, overstocking, drought, and rapid land‐use change have led to the degradation of rangelands in Iran (Azarm et al, 2022; Ghanian et al, 2017; Jowkar et al, 2016; Savari, Damaneh, & Damaneh, 2023a). Despite the deterioration of these pastures in recent decades, most feed is still sourced from the pastures.…”

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“…Before the 1950s, traditional systems of rangeland management and adaptive livelihood strategies, which had evolved over centuries, were dominant in arid and semi‐arid areas (Fernandez‐Llamazares et al, 2020; Savari, Damaneh, & Damaneh, 2023b). Due to the low human population, a dynamic equilibrium between humans, rangelands, and livestock existed.…”

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Pro‐environmental intention toward sustainable rangeland's management; application of protection motivation and cultural theories

Madadizadeh,

Arzani,

Javadi

et al. 2023

Natural Resources Forum

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This empirical study attempts to deal with an exploration gap surrounding Iranian pastoralists' pro‐environmental intention regarding sustainable rangeland management. This study tested a combination of protection motivation and cultural values theories using structural equation modeling. A sample among rangeland's users was selected and the sample size was determined using Cochrane's (1963) formula to be 289. Data for this study were collected using a researcher‐made questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS (version 20) and AMOS (version 20). The results showed that the conceptual model of this study had a good fit with the data. The combination of the two theories showed good potential in predicting the pro‐environmental intention of rangeland users (51%) compared with previous researches. The results revealed that risk perception, maladaptation, and belief in land degradation directly influence rangeland's pro‐environmental intention.

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The effect of social capital in mitigating drought impacts and improving livability of Iranian rural households

Cited by 21 publications

References 73 publications

Assessing livelihood resilience in drought-affected areas: Lessons from Raya Kobo district, northeast Ethiopia

Assessing livelihood resilience in drought-affected areas: Lessons from Raya Kobo district, northeast Ethiopia

Emergency mitigation of drought worldwide: Qualitative descriptive design

Pro‐environmental intention toward sustainable rangeland's management; application of protection motivation and cultural theories

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