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1 Ghorbani, M.; Eskandari-Damaneh, H.; Cotton, M.; Ghoochani, O. M.; Borji, M. 2021. Harnessing indigenous knowledge for climate change-resilient water management – lessons from an ethnographic case study in Iran. Climate and Development, 15p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2020.1841601]
Water management ; Indigenous knowledge ; Climate change adaptation ; Resilience ; Participatory approaches ; Governance ; Water resources ; Water scarcity ; Water rights ; Farmers ; Land ownership ; Cultural factors ; Ecosystems ; Case studies ; Communities ; Villages / Iran Islamic Republic / Jiroft / Roozkin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050356)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17565529.2020.1841601?needAccess=true
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050356.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050356.pdf
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Through an in-depth ethnographic case study, we explore water management practices within the Jiroft County province in Iran and discuss the applicability of indigenous knowledge of regional water management to the resource governance of arid regions across the world. We explore, through qualitative analysis, the relationship between community social structure, indigenous knowledge, water management technologies and practices, and water governance rules under conditions of anthropogenic climate change. From participant observational and interview data (n = 32), we find that historically-dependent community roles establish a social contract for water distribution. Cultural conventions establish linked hierarchies of water ownership, profit-sharing and social responsibility; collectively they construct an equitable system of role-sharing, social benefit distribution, socio-ecological resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of climate change-induced drought. We conclude that the combination of hierarchical land ownership-based water distribution and what we term ‘bilateral compensatory mutual assistance’ for the lowest-profit agricultural water users, provides a model of spontaneous common pool resource management that bolsters community drought resilience. We use this case to proffer recommendations for adapting other centralized, grey infrastructure and regulatory models of water management from lessons learned from this spontaneous adaptive management case.
2 Afkhami, M.; Zahraie, B.; Ghorbani, M.. 2022. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the dimensions of farmers' adaptive capacity in the face of water scarcity. Journal of Arid Environments, 199:104715. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2022.104715]
Water scarcity ; Farmers ; Adaptation ; Quantitative analysis ; Qualitative analysis ; Resilience ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water governance ; Social capital ; Ecological factors ; Innovation ; Infrastructure ; Villages ; Models / Iran Islamic Republic / Lorestan / Borujerd
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050889)
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Previous studies have shown that enhancing adaptive capacity can reduce vulnerability of farmers to water scarcity and improve their resiliency against environmental changes in the Social-Ecological Systems (SES). The present study aims to evaluate, measure, and compare the dimensions of farmers’ adaptive capacity in rural areas in west of Iran facing escalating water scarcity in the recent years. Since that adaptive capacity is a key factor in community resilience, the relationship between considered adaptive capacity dimensions with increasing resilience of the study area was also investigated. Furthermore, the influence and dependency of each item of the dimensions of adaptive capacity has been measured by the Cross Impact Analysis (CIA) method. For this purpose, 175 farmers in 6 villages in Borujerd County, Lorestan province, Iran were selected for examining the content, structure, and important dimensions of their adaptive capacity. Adopting the survey methodology, this study used the whole network approach to identify the agricultural water users in the ecologic boundaries of the selected villages. The t-values for the most important dimensions with highest effects on the adaptive capacity of the rural communities in the study area including “water governance”, “innovation” and “information, and awareness” were 5.56, 5.49 and 4.15, respectively confirming the Structural Equations Modeling (SEM) and Friedman statistical test results. The t-values less than 1.96 for “Local networks”, “trust in government”, “financial sources and infrastructures”, as well as “adaptive management” showed insignificance of these dimensions in the adaptive capacity of farmers in the study area. Based on the results of the adaptive capacity analysis, suggestions for enhancing resilience of the farmer communities against water scarcity were provided.
3 Zanjanian, H.; Niksokhan, M. H.; Ghorbani, M.; Rezaei, A. R. 2022. A novel framework for water right conflict resolution considering actors’ power and inter-organizational relationships analysis. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 24(3):622-641. [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.166]
Water rights ; Conflicts ; Social network analysis ; Water resources ; Water allocation ; Decision making ; Organizations ; Stakeholders ; Game theory ; Modelling ; Reservoirs ; Case studies / Iran Islamic Republic / Ilam Dam
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051219)
https://iwaponline.com/jh/article-pdf/24/3/622/1054017/jh0240622.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051219.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051219.pdf
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Water allocation from reservoirs has always been a challenging issue for decision-makers. The more the stakeholders in the allocation projects, the more conflicts among them could be expected to receive more water rights. As a result, it is necessary to study the relations and power among organizations. In this study, the Ilam dam was used as the case study, and the social network analysis was also used to assess the interactions among the involved organizations and evaluate their power using centrality measures. Based on the network analysis and actors’ power assessment, a novel approach was applied to define and analyze the conflict associated with water quantity allocation. Accordingly, the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution was used for both basic and power-asymmetric conflict analysis models. In the power-asymmetric approach, the direct power scenario gives the most powerful actor the possibility of punishing the violating organizations using their political and executive power. Based on the status quo of the conflict, the results obtained from the equilibrium analysis show that both the power of the main actor and the nature of relationships other actors have with the most powerful actor directly influence the conflict's outcome.
4 Yazdanparast, M.; Ghorbani, M.; Salajegheh, A.; Kerachian, R. 2023. Development of a water security conceptual model by combining Human-Environmental System (HES) and system dynamic approach. Water Resources Management, 37(4):1695-1709. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-023-03449-5]
Water security ; Models ; Watersheds ; Water resources ; Participatory approaches ; Policies ; Ecosystem services ; Water governance ; Population growth ; Political aspects ; Resilience ; Economic development ; Sustainability / Iran Islamic Republic / Khorasan Razavi / Neyshabur Plain Watershed
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051809)
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The water shortage crisis that is sweeping the world today has posed serious harm and threat to people around the world. Meanwhile, Iran is one of the water-scarce countries due to its location in arid and semi-arid belt and fluctuations in rainfall. The pervasive nature of water and the existence of numerous human and environmental factors affecting its reliability have greatly complicated the interactions between the human-environment dimensions. Therefore, there is a need to merge knowledge from the social and natural sciences. In this regard, this study aimed to provide a water security conceptual model in the Neishabour plain watershed by combining a framework for Human - Environmental System (HES) interactions and System Dynamic (SD) aproach in relation to the concept of water security. For this purpose, a qualitative research method consists of combined an initial conceptual model with a Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) obtained from interviews with the key research community was used to present relationships and develop a conceptual model of water security. The results show that understanding the hierarchical levels of environmental awareness and ultimately learning and practice based on key components and interactions identified by the HES framework, facilitates the analysis of system complexity. In this regard, if water resources management organization pay attention to the factors affecting the concept of water security, by using and implementing the conceptual model presented in this study, it is possible to improve the compatibility capacity and develop effective operational plans with correct and timely pathology to achieved more stable and comprehensive water resources management in the watersheds.
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