العوامل الاجتماعية والثقافية ودورها في استغلال الموارد البيئية : دراسة حول استهلاك المياه في المشاريع الزراعية الاستيطانية باقليم فزان بالجنوب الليبي - مشروع براك والابيض الزراعيين نموذجاً

Abstract

Abstract This studied is established on a research problematic represented in addressing socio-cultural factors effect on environment exploitation, and its most important hypotheses were searching for the diflerences between Bedouins (nomads) and rural farmers in choosing irrigation techniques, and the study adopted the historical comparative methods, and the primary sources: the questionnaire, observation and interviews, besides secondary sources represented in books, studies, reports and some of laws and decisions, and the study was conducted on 60 individual, from the agricultural schemes of Barak and Alabyiad in the territory of Fezzan in Southem Libya, and it endeavored to stimulate the socio-cultural system to set indigenous and formal programs delimiting tlle irrational use of water consumption, and its most important objectives is to acknowledge the farmers awareness of enviromnental surrounding, and their evaluation of its most important problems, and standing upon watering status in the two agricultural scheme. Most important results, the study arrived at is the low ratio of illiteracy among the individuals in the sample of the study, and most of them are working in the public sector of the state as well as practicing farming, and the majority of them view that the waters fiorn well are gradually decreasing, and the water draining is infringing the coming generation life, and also the majority of those who belong to Bedouin origins are interested in animal breeding, and this has its social significance, such that is reflects the socioeconomic status in their custom and traditions, in contrast, those who belong to rural origins depend on farming activity in a greater manner, and most of the farmers from Bedouin origins depends on sprinkle-irrigation, and in contrast those who are fi'om rural origins depend on drop-irrigation, such that they are most adaptive to agricultural environment, and they know that increased

$5; water leads to water-logging of the soil and concentration of salts, whml to be a heath land. Also, the study arrived at the scarcity and absence of studies that link: K factor to the vironment m the scientific research world, recommends the importance of conducting studies in this vital domi ensures the necessity for promoting environmental awareness throughfl educational institutions and the media.