Determination of socio-economic factors on natural resources degradation of iran
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...In the last six decades, farmlands have expanded from 2.6 million ha (Wilber, 2014) to 18.5 million ha (DEI, 2010), and about 9.1% of Irano-Turanian rangelands converted to other land-use types from 1955 to 1995 (Ansari et al., 2009a)....
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...These findings are different from the results of Ansari et al. (2009b), which reported an annual change rate of 0.22% in Irano-Turanian rangelands from 1955 to 1995....
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...…changes in the world (White et al., 2000; Elias et al., 2015), especially in developing countries such as Iran, where converting rangelands to agricultural lands has been accelerating over the recent decades (Ansari et al., 2009a; Shahraki and Barani 2012; Jamshidi and Amini 2013; Kardavani 2015)....
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...This result is consistent with the findings of some scholars (Ansari et al., 2009a), which have shown the influence of overgrazing is higher than agricultural land expansion in rangeland degradation....
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...Ansari et al. (2009b) introduced overgrazing (47.2%), cultivation (35.9...
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...Also, according to the researches which have performed in 11 provinces of Iran, land use change causes 32% of rangeland degradation which is a considerable amount (Ansari et al., 2008)....
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