Identify livelihood resilience strategies against drought risk from the point of view of rural households (case study: Dehestan Golmakan, Chenaran County)

Nowadays resilience, as an affective measurement in crisis management, is a social approach to boost readiness against environmental dangers. Therefore, societies try to reduce vulnerability through increasing resilience against crisis. The study tried to identify rural families’ livelihood resilience strategies against draught.

The study applied a descriptive method. The analysis unit was local experts of eight vil-lages of Golmakan, Chenaran suffering from draught. In this study two technique of strategic planning, SWOT and QSPM. To this end and based on vast documentary and field studies, 17 strengths and opportunities as advantages and 15 weaknesses and as threats will be against livelihood resilience of rural families facing draught were used as well as ideas of 96 local experts. Cronbach's alpha of 0.84 shows the suitable reliability of the research tools.

Results showed that in SWOT matrix, regarding the total scores in IFE -2.21 and EFE -1.91 for livelihood of rural families, defensive strategies (the least – the least) was identified as ideal. In this regard, the most important livelihood resilience strategy was “diversification of the economics of rural areas ex-posed to draught” in QSPM matrix having 2.42 scores were identified.

It is necessary that in areas in danger of draught, the development basics suitable to water scarcity and non-agricultural economics for increasing resilience of villages’ people against draught.