Policy and plural responsiveness: Taking constructive account of the ways in which Iranian farmers think about and behave in relation to water

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 514, Issue , 2014, Pages 347-357

  Yazdanpanah, Masoud ^a,b   Hayati, Dariush ^c   Thompson, Michael ^b   Zamani, Gholam Hosein ^c   Monfared, Nozar ^d  

^a Ramin Agricultural and Natural Resources University Ahwaz   (Iran)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d Institute of Applied Scientific Higher Education Jihad e Agriculture   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Beliefs; Myths of nature; Risk perception; Sense of responsibility; Water conservation

Indexed keywords

RISK PERCEPTION; WATER CONSERVATION;

ATTITUDES; BELIEFS; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; MYTHS OF NATURE; PUBLIC GOODS; SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; WATER CRISIS;

AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84899805054     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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