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Kavianpoor A, Barani H, Sepehri A, Bahremand A. Evaluating the impacts of climate change on pastoralists activities (Case study: Rangelands of Haraz river basin). مرتع 2019; 13 (1) :26-38
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Climate change affects various activities of humans through its impacts on ecosystems and human-environment relationships. To gain a better understanding of these impacts, this study aimed to analyze the impacts of climate change on perspectives of pastoralists, and their activities in Haraz river basin (HRB). We also suggested some adaptation techniques and recommendation for reducing the impacts of climate change on livestock production. At the first step, the impacts of climate change on activities of pastoralists were elicited using questionnaire from local pastoralists. Discriminant analysis was used for calculating the distance between pastoralists' opinions in STATISTICA software. Also, the Mann-Whitney test was used to compare the perception of pastoralists about climate change in Baladeh and Larijan. According to the results, a significant proportion of pastoralists believed that climate change has occurred in HRB. We also found that there is a strong agreement between the perspectives of the two group pastoralists of Baladeh and Larijan about changes in climate characteristics. Mean comparison showed that pastoralists believed that climate changed posed significant changes in the sale of livestock and percent of sheep in herd composition (α= 1%). The Discriminant analysis revealed that 99 % of the perception of the two groups about climate change were similar. They only disagreed at 1 % about the effects of climate change on sales rate of livestock and percent of sheep in herd composition. In conclusion, providing pastoralists with enough and proper extension services by planners and authorities of natural resources to cope with climate changes seems vital to ensure sustainable local livelihoods.
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Received: 2019/05/9 | Accepted: 2019/05/9 | Published: 2019/05/9
Received: 2019/05/9 | Accepted: 2019/05/9 | Published: 2019/05/9
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