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Investigating the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake
The drying of Urmia Lake is one of the environmental crises in Iran that generated a diversity of household coping strategies. This study aimed to investigate the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake. A multi-stage cluster sampling method was used to select 347 rural households from Shabestar county, Urmia Basin. A comprehensive questionnaire was created that included 36 strategies based on literature and structured following Ghorpade's classification, which grouped coping strategies into natural disasters risk-reduction (prevention), self-insurance and risk-sharing. The findings revealed that the risk-reduction (prevention) and risk-sharing strategies had a rising trend since 2002. Self-insurance strategies increased until 2011 and decreased after that. A correlation was observed between the use of risk-reduction strategies and the household heads’ level of education and between the use of self-insurance strategies and cost-sharing strategies, on the one hand, and the household heads’ years of occupation, on the other hand.
Investigating the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake
The drying of Urmia Lake is one of the environmental crises in Iran that generated a diversity of household coping strategies. This study aimed to investigate the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake. A multi-stage cluster sampling method was used to select 347 rural households from Shabestar county, Urmia Basin. A comprehensive questionnaire was created that included 36 strategies based on literature and structured following Ghorpade's classification, which grouped coping strategies into natural disasters risk-reduction (prevention), self-insurance and risk-sharing. The findings revealed that the risk-reduction (prevention) and risk-sharing strategies had a rising trend since 2002. Self-insurance strategies increased until 2011 and decreased after that. A correlation was observed between the use of risk-reduction strategies and the household heads’ level of education and between the use of self-insurance strategies and cost-sharing strategies, on the one hand, and the household heads’ years of occupation, on the other hand.
Investigating the coping strategies of rural households to the drying of Urmia Lake
Maleki, Rasoul (author) / Nooripoor, Mehdi (author) / Sharifi, Zeinab (author) / Petrescu, Dacinia Crina (author)
Local Environment ; 28 ; 1263-1278
2023-10-03
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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