Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran
The degree of popular participation in development programs is a major determinant of success or failure, but the factors which make participation efforts successful still remained a mystery. This study was designed to discover this mystery and determine the factors that influence local people’s par...
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| author | Bagherian, Reza Abu Samah, Bahaman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Ahmad, Shamsuddin |
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| description | The degree of popular participation in development programs is a major determinant of success or failure, but the factors which make participation efforts successful still remained a mystery. This study was designed to discover this mystery and determine the factors that influence local people’s participation in Watershed Management Programs by using the social exchange framework. The data for this study were gathered from 200 respondents through personal interview during August and September 2008. The findings
of this study showed that level of participation in WMP was moderate; however people preferred more involvement in social rather than economical and environmental activities. Correlation analysis indicated that six factors: 1) satisfaction of prior programs, 2) attitude toward WMP, 3) knowledge of WMP, 4) alternative monthly income, 5) total monthly income and 6) Met expectations of WMP have positive and significant relationship with level of people’s participation in WMP. However, regression analysis discovered that among these factors, five factors provided the best prediction for the level of people’s participation in WMP and explained 45 % of the variation. These five factors were; level of people’s satisfaction of prior programs, people’s attitude toward WMP, people’s knowledge of WMP, their monthly income from alternative occupation
and their expectations of WMP. The result of this study also provided a number of theoretical and practical
implications and recommendations to increase the level of participation in WMP. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-147032019-02-12T02:01:11Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14703/ Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran Bagherian, Reza Abu Samah, Bahaman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Ahmad, Shamsuddin The degree of popular participation in development programs is a major determinant of success or failure, but the factors which make participation efforts successful still remained a mystery. This study was designed to discover this mystery and determine the factors that influence local people’s participation in Watershed Management Programs by using the social exchange framework. The data for this study were gathered from 200 respondents through personal interview during August and September 2008. The findings of this study showed that level of participation in WMP was moderate; however people preferred more involvement in social rather than economical and environmental activities. Correlation analysis indicated that six factors: 1) satisfaction of prior programs, 2) attitude toward WMP, 3) knowledge of WMP, 4) alternative monthly income, 5) total monthly income and 6) Met expectations of WMP have positive and significant relationship with level of people’s participation in WMP. However, regression analysis discovered that among these factors, five factors provided the best prediction for the level of people’s participation in WMP and explained 45 % of the variation. These five factors were; level of people’s satisfaction of prior programs, people’s attitude toward WMP, people’s knowledge of WMP, their monthly income from alternative occupation and their expectations of WMP. The result of this study also provided a number of theoretical and practical implications and recommendations to increase the level of participation in WMP. IDOSI Publications 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/14703/1/Factors%20influencing%20local%20people.pdf Bagherian, Reza and Abu Samah, Bahaman and Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi and Ahmad, Shamsuddin (2009) Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran. American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, 6 (5). pp. 532-538. ISSN 1818-6769; ESSN: 1990-4053 http://idosi.org/aejaes/aejaes6%285%29.htm |
| spellingShingle | Bagherian, Reza Abu Samah, Bahaman Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi Ahmad, Shamsuddin Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title | Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title_full | Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title_fullStr | Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title_short | Factors influencing local people's participation in watershed management programs in Iran |
| title_sort | factors influencing local people s participation in watershed management programs in iran |
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