Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
- mohammad ekrami 1
- Rasool Mahdavi Najaf abadi 2
- Marzieh Rezai 3
- hassan vagharfard 4
- Jalal Barkhordari 5
1 PhD Student in Watershed Sciences and Engineering-water, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan,
2 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources, UniversityofHormozgan, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan
4 Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan
5 Scientific Board, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Yazd, Iran
Abstract
In recent decades, among natural disasters, the frequency of agricultural drought has been higher than other natural disasters. The best way to management of agricultural drought was to management drought-stricken society. The purpose of this study was to assess the vulnerability and spatial analysis of drought in Pishkuh watershed in Yazd province. the effective parameters in the vulnerability of agricultural drought in the region became information layers, and after weighting the layers in terms of the importance of agricultural drought vulnerability in the framework of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) Agricultural drought in the study area was prepared. In order to control, monitoring and evaluation the final map, field studies of the study area were also used. The results showed that the highest weight of the effective parameters in drought vulnerability was related to the precipitation parameter, the value of which is equal to 0.31, and the lowest weight was related to the slope parameter with a value of 0.05. According to the obtained results, the most vulnerable agricultural droughts were related to Sanich, Darashir, Darasir, Eshkaft, Morok, etc. Geomorphologically, these areas were considered to be high and mountainous, more severe than plain areas due to the low depth of sediments, coarse-grained soil texture and aquatic resources (Qanats), mainly their vulnerability to drought, and In terms of time, they suffer more quickly, in other words, they suffer a lot of damage in the short term. While areas such as Islamia, Nasrabad, Mazrea Akhund, Hemmatabad , etc. were in a lower degree of agricultural drought damage. The results indicate that the degree of damage to agricultural drought estimated in the final map is in line with the findings of field studies. Therefore, the map of agricultural drought vulnerability has acceptable and desirable accuracy.
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