全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Policy and plural responsiveness taking constructive account of the ways in which Iranian farmers think about and behave in relation to water.

G2TT

来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.015
	Policy and plural responsiveness taking constructive account of the ways in which Iranian farmers think about and behave in relation to water.
	Yazdanpanah M; Hayati D; Thompson M; Zamani GH; Monfared N
发表日期	2014
出处	Journal of Hydrology : 347-357
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Iran faces a serious and worsening water crisis, and water conservation by its farmers is rightly seen as crucial to any resolution. Whilst many farmers are profligate in their use of water, some are parsimonious: behavioural strategies vary and these strategies, we hypothesise, are accompanied by differing perceptions. These perceptions, we further hypothesise, are generated by the four different ways of organising -- individualism, hierarchy, egalitarianism and fatalism -- that are predicted by the theory of plural rationality. Informal guided interviews with 330 farmers in Boushehr Province support these hypotheses and show that both perceptions of and behaviour in relation to water are closely tied to the farmers. ways of organising which, in turn, are influenced by the socio-technological origin of their water: wells, irrigation canals, qanats. "Egalitarian" farmers are already behaving in the desired way; they are most prevalent among those who rely on wells. "Individualist" and "fatalist" farmers are profligate in their water use; they are most prevalent among those who rely on irrigation canals. The modern technology, we suggest, could be re-cast, in part, along the lines of the traditional qanat socio-technological system, so that water, at times and in places, is delivered as a common-pool good (egalitarianism) and not just in the current public good (hierarchy) or private good (individualism) modes.
主题	Risk, Policy and Vulnerability (RPV) ; Risk & ; Resilience (RISK)
关键词	Myths of nature Beliefs Attitudes Sense of responsibility Risk perception Water conservation
URL	http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/10930/
来源智库	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/130049
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yazdanpanah M,Hayati D,Thompson M,et al. Policy and plural responsiveness taking constructive account of the ways in which Iranian farmers think about and behave in relation to water.. 2014.