Assessment of Resilience to Drought of Rural Communities in Iran

Assessment of Resilience to Drought of Rural Communities in Iran

In recent years, drought has inflicted significant damage on agriculture and rural communities in Iran. Resilience is the capability of communities to handle and tolerate exterior pressures such as drought. The purpose of this study was to identify the indicators affecting social resilience against...

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Published in:Journal of social service research Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 151 - 165
Main Authors: Khatibi, Seyedeh Atiye, Golkarian, Ali, Mosaedi, Abolfazl, Sojasi Qeidari, Hamdollah
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 15-03-2019
Taylor & Francis LLC
Subjects:
Agriculture
Community
Coping strategies
COPRAS methods
Drought
Empowerment
Entropy
Households
Irrigation
Questionnaires
Resilience
Rural areas
Rural communities
Shannon's entropy
Social research
Social services
Social services delivery
Villages
Iran
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Summary:In recent years, drought has inflicted significant damage on agriculture and rural communities in Iran. Resilience is the capability of communities to handle and tolerate exterior pressures such as drought. The purpose of this study was to identify the indicators affecting social resilience against drought, determining the cause of reduction or increase of resilience in different regions. It also focuses on strategies for increasing resilience of rural communities through the provision of social services in Iran. The required information was collected using a questionnaire from five villages, including 237 villagers who were selected through snowball method. Shannon's entropy and COPRAS methods were employed to determine and classify the drought resilience. The results show that some indicators like modified irrigation methods and new methods of coping with drought have devoted the highest weight. Also, there is a significant relationship between resilience rating of villages with average age of the households and number of households in nonfarm job. Finally, absolute drought resilience of rural communities remained in moderate situation. Doing study in wider areas to coordinate the effective indicators in the matter and studying how empowerment of local communities by providing a variety of social services can be considered as a further research in the future.
ISSN:0148-8376
1540-7314
DOI:10.1080/01488376.2018.1479342