Agricultural education
Karwan Shanazi; Shahoo Dashti
Abstract
Water governance is known as an effective solution to limitation of agricultural water resources and its optimal management. Therefore, it is very important to identify and evaluate the indicators as well as the priority mechanisms for its realization.with this knowledge, this research has evaluated ...
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Water governance is known as an effective solution to limitation of agricultural water resources and its optimal management. Therefore, it is very important to identify and evaluate the indicators as well as the priority mechanisms for its realization.with this knowledge, this research has evaluated the feasibility of good governance indicators of agricultural water resources in the water-user organizations of Kamyaran county.This research is a type of descriptive-analytical research that was conducted by survey method. In addition to in-depth library studies, the required data was collected using the field method and questionnaire tool in 2021.The statistical population included 220 water users in eight villages who were selected by census. The validity of questionnire was examined by subject experts in university and its reliability calculation was confirmed by Ordinal theta coefficient (θ=0.72-0.85). The findings revealed the state of good governance of the organizations at a weak (47.72%) and moderate (37.27%) respectively. The comparison of the averages showed that its dimensions of financial reliability and independence, participation, justice and transparency was higher than the average of the society,but it was lower in other dimensions. Considering the significant level of farmers' governance of water resources in terms of components of financial reliability, participation, justice, it is acceptable,but in terms of adequacy and reliability, efficiency and effectiveness, and accountability, it is reported to be weak.The correlation coefficient confirm significant relationship between the variables of the number of participants in public meetings,and the main job history with the variable of the good governance level of organizations.
mosa azami; Mehrdad Pouya
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Although publications of water governance reports have rapidly been increasing recently, no researches utilized knowledge and word co-occurrence mapping as a novel methodology. The Knowledge map reveals major scientific nodes and trends of the study area with its strengths and weaknesses; so it was conducted ...
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Although publications of water governance reports have rapidly been increasing recently, no researches utilized knowledge and word co-occurrence mapping as a novel methodology. The Knowledge map reveals major scientific nodes and trends of the study area with its strengths and weaknesses; so it was conducted through focusing on the topic of water governance as a new area of knowledge. After extracting and processing documents, retrieved by searching water AND governance, and indexed in the Scopus site- as the most comprehensive indexing site- the data were analyzed using the VOSwiever-1.6.9 software including network, overlay and density visualizations. Out of over 7000 documents and 14000 authors who published on the subject matter up to 2019, the US, the Netherlands and Australia were found to have published the highest number of the documents. Meanwhile, China and India ranked to the end of the ten-nation list. Not only Claudia Pahl-Wostl and Joyeeta Gupta received the most citations; but also their clusters showed to have the highest density scores as well. The word co-occurrence network revealed the following five research clusters: collective action, adaptation, groundwater, experience; capacity, agriculture, climate, drought, and resilience; evidence, participation, integrated management, technology, and implementation; human rights, energy, sanitation, solutions, and environment; and conflicts, collaboration, evaluation, politics, and power. Knowledge mapping is recommended for offering a holistic insight regarding the subject matter under study to future agricultural extension education researchers.
