جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "upstream documents" در نشریات گروه "مهندسی آب"

Strategic plans approved by the competent authorities in the form of upstream documents are a suitable indicator for expressing the policies of any country including the country's strategies related to water and food security. In this research more than 50 documents were identified in the three main areas of water, environment and agriculture to examine the mentioned issues in Iran. The documents included the upstream documents in the field of water and agriculture and were explicitly or implicitly related to food and water security. These documents were examined using quantitative analysis on frequency. First, the counted upstream documents were analyzed for 4 axes, 14 sub-axes and 36 components. Then the amount of repetition of each was evaluated in the introduced documents. The highest level of attention of the policy maker has been given to the "political-administrative-legal" axis and then the "social-economic" axis. By using the analysis of the frequency, the sections that were important from the point of view of the law and the policy maker was identified. The results obtained from these sections showed the legislator's attention and the course of strategies in time which form three time periods of (a) first 1380-1358, (b) second 1381-1390, and (c) third 1391-1400 (Iranian Calendar). This showed the changes in the level of attention each axis received from the legislative and policy making authorities over time. The results showed that the attention of politicians and legislators has changed from a specific axis (organization administrative legal) to a uniform and one-size-fits-all attention to all the examined axes, which shows a positive evolution in the policy of water resources and agriculture.

Protection of groundwater resources plays an important role in the economic and social development of societies. Over the past few decades, due to overexploitation of groundwater resources, the reserves of this hidden treasure have faced a crisis. For this reason, a more comprehensive approach in water resources management is needed to use the participation of all peoples in water resources management. Women play a significant role in the protection of groundwater resources due to their important role in production and agriculture, and it is necessary to benefit their activism. This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of women as activists in Iran's upstream documents and using the qualitative content analysis method. The innovation of the upcoming research is that, for the first time, the role of women in the management of groundwater resources is addressed in the country's policy making. The findings of the research show that despite the emphasis of the programmers on people's participation, there is no specific reference to the activism of different creditors in the water management and the data that indicate the importance of the role of women and their activism are extremely insignificant and it makes policymakers face difficulty in formulating detailed policies. Therefore, it is necessary for programmers to adopt a more comprehensive perspective and use the capacity of all people while paying attention to the special geographical and climatic conditions of different regions of Iran.