چکیده:
A decrease in natural resources and their non-uniform distribution can affect social relationships between residents of watersheds, creating conflict and shifting groupings. The present study used the network analysis method to test the hypothesis that change in hydrologic parameters and water shortages in the village of Tutang has led to the new groupings in the social cooperation network of the local population. Data was gathered by questionnaire. A cooperative network
composed of village residents to resolve the water shortage was delineated using UCINET and Visone software. The results showed that past communication patterns based on kinship changed after the water shortage arose and led to the formation of new groupings among residents. Individuals who cooperated in resolving the water shortage experienced higher social power, authority, and status. The results emphasized the need to focus attention on the interactions between subsystems of a social-ecological system. Determined individuals with increased social power can be enlisted to solve the conflicts
خلاصه ماشینی:
Social Cooperation Networks and Altered Social Groupings Shaped by Drought: A Case Study of the Village of Tutang in Hormozgon Province H.
Sc. Graduated, University of Hormozgan, Hormozgan, Iran Received: 19 April 2012; Received in revised form: 19 November 2013; Accepted: 1 December 2013 Abstract A decrease in natural resources and their non-uniform distribution can affect social relationships between residents of watersheds, creating conflict and shifting groupings.
The present study used the network analysis method to test the hypothesis that change in hydrologic parameters and water shortages in the village of Tutang has led to the new groupings in the social cooperation network of the local population.
The results showed that past communication patterns based on kinship changed after the water shortage arose and led to the formation of new groupings among residents.
Individuals who cooperated in resolving the water shortage experienced higher social power, authority, and status.
Determined individuals with increased social power can be enlisted to solve the conflicts Keywords: Homag Catchment; Cooperation Network; Network Analysis; Water Shortage 1.
The present research explores the effect of drought and water shortages on the social relations of residents of the village of Tutang.
The network analysis method was used to test the assumption that drought and changes in hydrologic parameters in Tutang has resulted in new groupings among its residents.
The emerging importance of social networks as outcomes to natural resource management has resulted in an increase in empirical studies analyzing their structural characteristics (Bodin and Crona, 2009).