Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran
Todays, climate change, along with its impact on people’s livelihood, is considered as one of the most important challenges facing human societies. Regarded as one of the most important and costly climatic phenomena, drought has severely and catastrophically affected housholds’ livelihood through ec...
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| description | Todays, climate change, along with its impact on people’s livelihood, is considered as one of the most important challenges facing human societies. Regarded as one of the most important and costly climatic phenomena, drought has severely and catastrophically affected housholds’ livelihood through economic and social damages mostly in arid environment. Accordingly, drought management is deemed as one of the most important priorities policymakers in agriculture worldwide. The present study sought to determine and measure the household livelihood resilience in the Bakhtegan basin by means of a sustainable livelihood approach. To this end, the household livelihood resilience index was calculated using household capitals. The findings illustrated that household livelihood resilience index 0.359 on average, indicating the low level of resilience among households in the study area. Thereafter, taking data mining technique in determining resilience patterns, four different resilience patterns beginning from lower average resilience in all dimensions than that of other ones. However, the second-pattern households are more resilient. Eventually, this contribution would provide a number of implications to policymakers and other stakeholders in terms of improving planning and applying appropriate risk management strategies towards improving the resilience of farmers’ households in the event of a natural disasters, especially a drought.. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1809f7aae33541d39250f9627ef05ab72022-12-21T19:09:36ZengElsevierEcological Indicators1470-160X2021-09-01128107817Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, IranFatemeh Nasrnia0Niloofar Ashktorab1Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran; Corresponding author.Agricultural Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Engineering and Rural Development, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, Mollasani, IranTodays, climate change, along with its impact on people’s livelihood, is considered as one of the most important challenges facing human societies. Regarded as one of the most important and costly climatic phenomena, drought has severely and catastrophically affected housholds’ livelihood through economic and social damages mostly in arid environment. Accordingly, drought management is deemed as one of the most important priorities policymakers in agriculture worldwide. The present study sought to determine and measure the household livelihood resilience in the Bakhtegan basin by means of a sustainable livelihood approach. To this end, the household livelihood resilience index was calculated using household capitals. The findings illustrated that household livelihood resilience index 0.359 on average, indicating the low level of resilience among households in the study area. Thereafter, taking data mining technique in determining resilience patterns, four different resilience patterns beginning from lower average resilience in all dimensions than that of other ones. However, the second-pattern households are more resilient. Eventually, this contribution would provide a number of implications to policymakers and other stakeholders in terms of improving planning and applying appropriate risk management strategies towards improving the resilience of farmers’ households in the event of a natural disasters, especially a drought..http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21004829Livelihood resilienceCapitalsData miningBakhtegan basinIran |
| spellingShingle | Fatemeh Nasrnia Niloofar Ashktorab Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran Ecological Indicators Livelihood resilience Capitals Data mining Bakhtegan basin Iran |
| title | Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran |
| title_full | Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran |
| title_short | Sustainable livelihood framework-based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of Bakhtegan basin, Iran |
| title_sort | sustainable livelihood framework based assessment of drought resilience patterns of rural households of bakhtegan basin iran |
| topic | Livelihood resilience Capitals Data mining Bakhtegan basin Iran |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21004829 |
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