Analyzing the Factors Affecting on Rural People’s Participation in the Projects of Natural Resources Conservation

Eshaghi, Seyed Reza; Rezaei, Rohollah; Hejazi, Seyed Yousof; Shiri, Nematollah; Ghadimi, Seyed Alireza

doi:10.22059/ijaedr.2013.50233

Analyzing the Factors Affecting on Rural People’s Participation in the Projects of Natural Resources Conservation

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Seyed Reza Eshaghi ¹

Rohollah Rezaei ²

Seyed Yousof Hejazi ³

Nematollah Shiri ⁴

Seyed Alireza Ghadimi ⁵

¹ M.S.c student, Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Assistat Professor, Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran

³ Professor, Agricultural Extension and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

⁴ PhD student, College of Agriculture, University of Kermanshah, Kermanshah, Iran

⁵ M.S.c student, Dept. of Rural Development, College of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

10.22059/ijaedr.2013.50233

Abstract

The main purpose of this research was to analyze the factors affecting on rural people’s participation in the projects of natural resources conservation. The research method of the study was analytical- explanatory research. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the heads of households in rural district of Azadlo in Moghan township (N= 750). According to Krejcie and Morgan table, 260 of them were selected by simple random sampling for doing the study (n= 260). A questionnaire was used to collect the data. A panel of experts in the University of Tehran established the validity of the questionnaire. A pilot study was conducted to confirm reliability of the instrument. Cronbach alpha's coefficient for the scale of factors affecting on rural people’s participation in the projects of natural resources conservation was equal to 0.97. Collected data were analyzed. The finding of factor analysis of factors affecting on rural people’s participation in the projects of natural resources conservation revealed that four factors named as awareness- informing, social- psychological, cultural- legal and governmental- motivational explained 69.843% of total variances of participation in the projects of natural resources conservation.

Keywords

Moghan township

Natural Resources

participation

projects conservation

rural Society