Document Type : thesis
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Associate Professor, Department of Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
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M. Sc. of Sustainable Agriculture Extension and Education, Dept. of Extension and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
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Professor in the Department of Rural Extension and Development at the University of Tabriz, Tabriz,Iran
10.22034/gahr.2025.514771.2437
Abstract
With the increase in the population of countries in the last decade, the average renewable water has decreased sharply and this trend continues. On the other hand, factors such as changing consumption patterns, changes in rainfall patterns, and gradual global warming have caused periodic droughts to appear. Also, lack of adequate and appropriate investment, improper management of existing water resources, and growth in per capita water consumption have all caused existing water resources to not meet the needs of the current and future population. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting sustainable water management among gardeners in the Qasabeh of Meshkinshahr city. The research method in this study was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey method in terms of data and information collection. The statistical population studied in this study included the set of gardeners in the Qasabeh of Meshkinshahr city (N=156), and due to the limited statistical population, the census method was used to collect information. Two documentary and field (questionnaire) methods were used to collect information.The information obtained from the correlation showed that there is a positive and significant relationship at the one percent level between the variables of extension, agronomic factors, economic factors, and social factors with the actions related to sustainable management of water resources by gardeners, which means that with the increase of one, the other also increases. Of course, it should be noted that the highest correlation coefficient was related to policy factors (correlation coefficient 0.630) and the lowest correlation coefficient was related to social factors (correlation coefficient 0.466).The results of multiple regression showed that the educational and extension variables, agronomic factors, economic factors, social factors, and policy factors have the ability to explain 85.8 percent of the changes in the variable of sustainable management of agricultural water resources.
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