An investigation for Identifying of Drivers, uncertainties, and strategies on livelihood in Range dependents rural communities ( case study: Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan turanian pastures)

• Published in: Jughrāfiyā va tusi̒ah (Online) Vol. 17; no. 56; pp. 91 - 118
• Main Authors: masood Rigi, hosein Barani, adel sepehri, ahmad abedi servestani, mosayeb pahlavani
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Persian
• Published: University of Sistan and Baluchestan 01.09.2019
• Subjects: proponents; rangefarries; sustainability strategies; sustainable livelihoods; uncertainties
• ISSN: 1735-0735; 2676-7791
• DOI: 10.22111/gdij.2019.4894

This research try to Identify Drivers, uncertainties and sustainability livelihood strategies of Rangemanagment. For this purpose we used Deep interview by experts. In this research, purposeful sampling and snowball, which is specific to qualitative research, was used to select the samples. Then we have identified mego Drivers or macro trends and grouping in 5 categories based on STEEP approach. Finally we extracted every drivers that affects on uncertainties as effective drivers. Results showed, that uncertaintiesm are find in all categories and planning must be note to thise issue. The most clusters of uncertain was in fields of supportive services, range plans management, range production extent and vegetation cover, and water resourses. In field of drivers, managenal factors are the most effective drivers on sustainability of rural livelihood. Finally strategies were determind based on elits opionos along Delphi process. Among strategy that their effective weight are moer 80 % core have selected and identified as core scenarios. The results of this study showed that in the planning of sustainable livelihood for villagers and nomads in order to rangemanagment the most important components are the legislative and management, economics of natural resources and the extent production of pastures. Besides these cases, the social, cultural and human components and infrastructure of range beneficieries sustainability the plans construct on the dynamic and integrated scenarios, in addition, creation of core strategies in fields of Social, Economical, Technical, Environmental, Political and Legislative also implementing strategies with considering of basic requirements would be important for sustainability.