Perception and Adaptation to Changes in Climatic Parameters of Semirom Region (Case Study: Qashqaei Nomads) | ||
| تحقیقات مرتع و بیابان ایران | ||
| Article 19, Volume 25, Issue 2, August 2018, Pages 438-453 PDF (369.81 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22092/ijrdr.2018.116854 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Razieh Sabohi* 1; Hosein Barani2; Morteza Khodagholi3; Ahmad Abedi Sarvestani4; Asghar Tahmasebi5 | ||
| 1Ph.D. Student of Range Management, Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran | ||
| 2Associate Professor, Department of Rang and Watershed Management, Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gorgan,.Iran | ||
| 3Associate Proessor, Soil conservation and Watershed Management Research Department, Isfahan Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Isfahan,.Iran | ||
| 4Associate Professor, Faculty of Agriculture Management, Gorgan University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran | ||
| 5Assistant Professor, Department of Geopolitics, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran,Iran | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Undoubtedly, one of the most important and impressionable societies to climate changes are nomadic societies and indigenous knowledge has pervasive roles in range and livestock management. For this purpose, perception and knowledge of the pastoral nomads to climate change were determined in summer rangelands of Semirom. The study population included the nomads of summer rangelands in Semirom. A total of 7700 nomads from different tribes of Qashqaei including Dareshoori, Amale, Shesh bolooki, and Farsimadan use summer rangeland of Semirom. To evaluate the indigenous knowledge and adaptation of nomads to climate changes, several methods were used such as depth and group interviews and questionnaires. The effects of age, sex, education, and range elevation were analyzed using Mann-Whitney test. The nomads believe that changes in temperature, precipitation, and wind are the main signs of climate change, as over 90 percent of nomads believe to precipitation decrease, increasing temperature, and wind speed. The most of the questions are influenced by age, sex, education, and range elevation. The questionnaires refer to adaptations such as delay time of migration, construction of block houses and pools, reducing livestock, feeding livestock with other forage resources etc. Our results showed that nomads of Qashqaei tribes acquired a perception about climate change during living in the nature. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Climate change; perception and indigenous knowledge; Adaptation; Nomads and Qashqaei tribes | ||
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