جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « مدیریت راهبردی » در نشریات گروه « آبخیزداری، بیابان، محیط زیست، مرتع »

Lack of rainfall, reckless grow of planting the agricultural products, uncontrolled abstraction of groundwater resources and lack of proper plans to reduce the adverse effects of the water crisis, has caused a sharp decline in the country's aquifers. The main objective of this study is to strategic management of water resources to determine the most appropriate management strategies for aquifer balancing.

Determining the most appropriate management strategies for balancing the Abhar plain aquifer has been done using the SWOT strategy formulation method. The most important internal and external factors (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) affecting water resources based on statistics and information collected, identified and after completing the questionnaire and survey, using group decision-making, the best strategy and applicable management approaches were explained.

The results of this study indicate that the weakness outweighs strengths as well as threats over opportunities. In other words, from the perspective of the experts present at the brainstorming session, the conditions of Abhar plain are in the quarter of weaknesses-threats (WT) with a defensive strategy that indicates the critical condition of Abhar plain aquifer in terms of the status of available water resources. Therefore, considering the current critical conditions of Abhar plain, the importance of optimal management, prevention of uncontrolled abstraction of groundwater resources, considering the most important weaknesses and main threats in this plain and the results of SWOT analytical model, the most appropriate solutions achieving the goal of balancing the groundwater aquifer of Abhar plain, are consist of focusing on land integration and preventing their fragmentation through integrated pressurized irrigation systems, changing the type of cultivation, irrigation method, benefiting from suitable climatic conditions for species cultivation low water demand, suitable geographical location in order to develop low water demand industries and equip water wells with smart meters to control and manage consumption. On the other hand implement watershed management and artificial recharge measures to prevent floods and loss of water resources and surface runoff harvesting was determined to control, manage and optimally use surface water resources and reduce abstraction from groundwater aquifers.

Using the capacity of opportunities and strengths ahead, Abhar plain aquifer strategy can be upgraded to ST strategy as well as WO and will be controlled the decreasing trend of Abhar plain aquifer volume.

Owing to premium properties such a transformation of forage with low quantity and quality into high quality dairy and meat products, compromising with arid and semi-arid rangeland and resistance against diseases, camel has basic function in extensive grazing systems. These properties have made camel herding as one of the strategies in sustainable development in natural resources management and sustainable livelihood of local communities. Nevertheless, camel herding is facing various challenges in Iran. This study aimed to strategic analysis of camel herding systems from Kalkooyi nomads and rangeland experts’ viewpoints in Qom Province. In this order, strength, weakness, opportunity and threat factors were identified using semi-structured interview. Then, weighting factors was done through designing and completing questionnaire based on two stakeholders. Data analysis was done using SWOT framework in Microsoft Office Excel. Result showed that the most important internal factors affecting camel herding in strength criteria was positive attitude and the interest and motivation towards camel herding among Kalkooyi nomads and in weakness criteria was shortage in suitable water sources for livestock drinking from both nomads and experts’ viewpoints. Also, between external factors as opportunity criteria, positive attitude of community members towards camel and its products and in threat criteria lack of comprehensive planning and roadmap for camel herding were the most important factors. Strategic position of camel herding was determined as offensive (SO) from nomads’ viewpoint with weights of 3.502 and 3.407, respectively. This position was determined as competitive (WO) from experts’ view point with weights of 2.073 and 2.517, respectively. Since both stakeholders assigned high weights to opportunity factors, the ultimate emphasis is on providing the condition for using opportunities of camel herding as well as strengthening the strengths and reducing the weaknesses. The result of this study helps executive managers and policy makers to plan and adjust camel herding roadmap with providing more information.

Inadequate productivity and over-capacity of land in many watersheds and plains of the country, has increased flooding potential. Therefore, reducing flood damage with the participation of both policymakers and the public as key stakeholders in decision-making, planning, long-term management and foresight in decisions are unavoidable. In the present study, SWOT analytical method was used to reduce flood potential and reduce flood risks in Hamedan- Bahar plain of Hamedan province in Siminehroud basin. To this end, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats to the method of precipitation, and the relative and final value of each of the SWOT evaluation matrix factors were assessed to determine the strategy for reducing the consequences of flood hazards. The final value of the matrix of all SWOT factors was 4.47, which indicates that strengths outweigh weaknesses. Also, the final value of external and internal factors was obtained as 2.51 and 1.96, respectively, which indicates that there are more opportunities than threats. These conditions indicate the establishment of a conservative strategy (WO) in the Hamadan-Bahar plain and the use of existing opportunities to reduce weaknesses. Finally, the two strategies of monitoring the construction of river banks and applying expert opinions in the implementation of land management laws along rivers and catchments with a weight of 0.761 ranked first in reducing the flood potential of the plain and reducing flood hazards.

The intensive use of groundwater resources has often affected ground water levels in many parts of the world. Therefore, the strategic management of water resources for better planning of water resources seems necessary, In this study SWOT strategy was applied for strategic management of water resources in Abarkouh plain. In order to launch this strategy, we first extracted the weaknesses, strengths, opportunities and threats using group decision making, and then the relative importance and overall value of each factor assessment were determined. The process involved identifying weaknesses and strengths of the study area and opportunities and threats present in the water resources. These parameters were extracted using collaborative decision-making and then the relative importance and final value of each factors in the strategic SWOT analysis matrix were determined. The results of this study showed that the external and internal factors evaluation matrix was 2.25 and 2.18, respectively, which indicates overcoming the weakness to power and threats to opportunities. In other words, the condition of the Abarkuh Plain is located in the Weaknesses-Threats (WT) column with a defensive strategy. These results indicate that water resources condition is critical in Abarkuh Plain. To manage this crisis, the best management strategies were extracted from the strategic SWOT analysis matrix including: agricultural well equipment using flow meters, changing irrigation methods (underground, injecting, dripping) changing the crop patterns (pistachio, pomegranate and other low-water products), using non-living windbreaker and greenhouse shading, and finally drinking and sanitation water separating.