Explain the Sustainable Management Extension Strategies of Zagros Oak Forest Basin

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension and Education Research

Davood Negahdari ¹ , Alireza Poursaeed ² , Roya Eshraghi Samani, ³ , mohamad bagher arayesh ⁴ , Behrooz Naseri ⁵

1 - PhD Student in Agricultural Extension and Education, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran
5 - Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran.

Received: 2022-06-29 Accepted : 2023-08-27 Published : 2023-08-23

Keywords: Zagros Oak Forest Basin, Extension Strategies, Sustainable management, Agricultural extension, participatory management,

Abstract :

Currently, the protection and sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the Zagros vegetation area has always been the main concern of activists and officials in this area. On the other hand, the agricultural Extension as an interdisciplinary science examines the phenomenon of decline of Zagros oak forests from a sociological and psychological perspective, as well as from an agricultural and rural perspective, and offers strategies that maintain the sustainability of natural resources while maintaining livelihoods. Also elevate. the present study aimed to Explain the Sustainable Management Extension Strategies of Zagros Oak Forest by using SWOT method. In this regard, internal and external factors were collected through in-depth interviews with 30 scientific and executive experts in the provinces of Zagros basin in the form of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Additionally, they were identified through line-by-line analysis in the form of common content and using MAXqda12 software analysis. In the next step, the internal and external factors questionnaire was adjusted and and the weight factor of each factor was calculated and the identified strategies were prioritized based on the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix.Considering the results in the internal and external factor evaluation matrix for the sustainable management of forests in the basin, as well as the dominance of weaknesses in the external factor evaluation matrix and threats in the internal, defensive pattern was more prioritized for managing the forests sustainably compared to the other strategic patterns.