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Sadegh Salehi; Fatemeh Ebrahimkhani
Abstract
Water issues have become one of the key issues in the Iranian environment. in Iran, nevertheless water scarcity, The water consumption is beyond international standards and highest level of water loss is in the agricultural sector. Such as solutions for the efficient use and more effective water is coping ...
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Water issues have become one of the key issues in the Iranian environment. in Iran, nevertheless water scarcity, The water consumption is beyond international standards and highest level of water loss is in the agricultural sector. Such as solutions for the efficient use and more effective water is coping strategies. The success of these strategies, depends on the behavior of farmers as actors. The present research studies the social backgrounds in groundwater conservation policies. The sample was composed of 120 farm-owners of water rights in the central part of Qazvin Plain. For this study, the survey method was used and the instrument to collect the data was questionnaire with several parts of the assessment. The results of this study indicate that participation in the groundwater resource conservation strategies in farmers requires the existence of a social context. This depends on the type of intergroup and outsourcing of farmers. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between social capital with the surveyed farmers. The research ended up with explaining about possible reasons of farmers’ different level of support and some suggestions were for futures studies.
