Economic assessment of the investment in soil and water conservation projects of watershed management

Mosaffaie, Jamal; Jam, Amin Salehpour

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“…These factors have reduced biodiversity and increased pressure on these ecosystems. Sadly, anthropogenic activity and climate change contribute to the degradation or pose a risk of impairing watersheds (Hazbavi & Sadeghi, 2017;Mosaffaie and Salehpour Jam, 2018). These issues have led to various environmental, economic, and social problems and considerably decreased land capacity for the growing population, especially in developing countries (Benassi et al, 2020;Chopra, 2016;Farzi et al, 2022).…”

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“…These issues have led to various environmental, economic, and social problems and considerably decreased land capacity for the growing population, especially in developing countries (Benassi et al, 2020;Chopra, 2016;Farzi et al, 2022). Therefore, it is essential to link conservation and development to achieve human needs without threatening resources (Mosaffaie & Salehpour Jam, 2018;Sheikh et al, 2021). The issue emphasizes the evaluation of watersheds' health to sustain the performance of ecosystems.…”

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Watershed health and ecological security modeling using anthropogenic, hydrologic, and climatic factors

Sadeghi

Silabi

Sadrabad

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Natural Resource Modeling

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Assessing the health and security of natural ecosystems is unavoidable to regulate and manage deterioration and prioritize management and conservation activities. As a result, the current study was conducted to assess the health and ecological security of the Galazchai Watershed in Oshnavieh Township, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, utilizing criteria linked to various hydrologic, anthropogenic, and climatic aspects. In the conceptual pressure–state–response (PSR) method, 26 criteria with acceptable variance inflation factor and Durbin–Watson statistics were chosen. The Galazchai Watershed's ecology's health and security status and spatial differences were also chosen and analyzed at 17 subwatersheds. The contributions of the pressure (P), status (S), and reaction (R) indices to the watershed health index were 38.3, 30.1, and 31.6%, respectively, according to the findings. The health index for the watershed ranged from 0.388 to 0.688. Almost 64% of the watershed's area was in relatively healthy conditions. Additionally, the maximum and the minimum values of the ecological security index were 0.608 and 0.236, allocating 58% of the area to moderate ecological security. The northern part of the watershed had healthier and moderately desirable ecological security than the southern part, with unhealthy and relatively undesirable conditions. In this sense, the main problems of the study area were primarily related to anthropogenic factors followed by hydrologic ones. The procedure used in the current study based on health and ecological security status can be applied as a practical guideline by local managers for efficient and adaptive watershed management.

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Watershed health and ecological security modeling using anthropogenic, hydrologic, and climatic factors

Sadeghi

Silabi

Sadrabad

et al. 2023

Natural Resource Modeling

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“…Floods are significant as a type of non-permanent surface flow, both from management, hydraulic and structural viewpoints (Meresa et al, 2022). This has affected the health of watersheds more than in the past and has caused significant disruptions in the provision of watershed services (Mosaffaie & Salehpour Jam, 2018;Mosaffaie & Salehpour Jam, 2020;Sadeghi et al, 2005;Sadoddin et al, 2010). On the other hand, evaluating the capability of a system to provide the expected functions depends on the system's health (Jahandari et al, 2022).…”

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Flood‐oriented watershed health and ecological security conceptual modeling using pressure, state, and response (PSR) approach for the Sharghonj Watershed, South Khorasan Province, Iran

Chamani,

Sadeghi,

Zare

et al. 2023

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Today, watersheds have changed under the influence of various environmental and human factors, and their expected performance has decreased in terms of meeting human needs, providing natural responses, and reducing environmental risks. However, evaluating health status and its impact on various factors has not been given enough attention. To this end, an attempt has been made to evaluate the health and ecological security of the sub‐watersheds of the Sharghonj Watershed using the pressure‐state‐response approach emphasizing flood‐related issues in the region. Towards that, 21 preliminary hydrological, anthropogenic, natural, and climatic criteria were selected. The preliminary variables were then finalized based on the results of the collinearity test and the data availability. The final variables were appropriately allocated to pressure, state, and response indices, and associated health and ecological security indices were determined at the sub‐watershed scale. The results showed that the pressure, state, and response ranged from 0.56 to 0.86, 0.46 to 0.84, and 0.35 to 0.96, respectively. Health and ecological security also varied from 0.53 to 0.83 and 0.27 to 1.01 in different sub‐watersheds. Eventually, the weighted mean pressure, state, and response indices for the Sharghonj Watershed were 0.72, 0.67, and 0.73, respectively. The weighted mean health and ecological security indices were 0.70 and 0.68, respectively. The research results indicated that the dynamic of various variables related to floods considerably affects the health of the Sharghonj Watershed. It could be concluded from the results that the Sharghonj Watershed is highly flood‐susceptible, whose health and ecological security status was mainly controlled by the damages due to the destruction of residences and orchards by floods in the past years. The results of the current study provide an appropriate roadmap to the decision makers and planners for the better management of the watershed resources in the region through allocating adequate financial support and implementation measures to priority sub‐watersheds.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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“…It is a well-known truth that municipal infrastructure projects are an essential reflection of the nation's regional modernization since they play a crucial role in generating and sustaining a suitable standard of life [1]. The benefits of these municipal infrastructure projects in terms of flood management, alleviating water shortages, producing renewable energy, ensuring food security, and general economic development have been immense [2][3][4]. However, the advantages come at a steep price.…”

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“…However, the advantages come at a steep price. With large-scale infrastructure construction, many problems have arisen: lack of foresight in infrastructure planning [5], investors' focus on short-term interests and neglect of long-term interests [6], over-emphasis on construction and contempt for maintenance [7], low level of operation [8], degradation of freshwater and soil ecosystems [9,10], soil and river erosion [4,11], and large population resettlements [12]. In addition, infrastructure projects often require significant land use and long-term investment; therefore, it often leads to problems related to noise pollution, ground and water pollution, disturbance to human life and ecosystems, habitat fragmentation, and resources consumption [11].…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Municipal Infrastructure Projects Based on Continuous Interval Argumentation Ordered Weighted Average (C-OWA) and Cloud Models

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The goals of sustainable development are constantly negatively impacted by infrastructure initiatives. The importance of these projects in advancing the economic, social, and civilizational growth of the country will, however, prevent their construction from being stopped. The overall construction of the project is related to the scientific and unbiased assessment of an infrastructure project’s sustainability throughout the decision-making stage. Based on the references documents, this paper establishes an index system for evaluating an infrastructure project’s sustainability from three aspects: environment, economy, and society. In the assessment process, the cloud model was used to describe the various attribute values of infrastructure project sustainability, which achieved the uncertainty measures for infrastructure project sustainability, and a cloud model-based assessment method for infrastructure project sustainability was proposed by modifying the attribute value by the penalty factor. Finally, an assessment method for infrastructure project sustainability based on the cloud model was proposed after the attribute values were modified by using a continuous interval argument ordered weighted average (C-OWA) operator. The model carries out an overall sustainability assessment by generating a synthesized cloud with the weight to calculate the similarity of assessment factors, which takes the randomness, fuzziness, and uncertainty of expert qualitative assessment into account, and uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method and the C-OWA operator to determine the weight of the sustainable index and the aggregation of the expert scoring interval. A case study was conducted to clarify how this strategy was applied. The study provides a valuable and useful tool for the operational stage to assess the achievability of municipal infrastructure projects.

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Economic assessment of the investment in soil and water conservation projects of watershed management

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

Watershed health and ecological security modeling using anthropogenic, hydrologic, and climatic factors

Watershed health and ecological security modeling using anthropogenic, hydrologic, and climatic factors

Flood‐oriented watershed health and ecological security conceptual modeling using pressure, state, and response (PSR) approach for the Sharghonj Watershed, South Khorasan Province, Iran

Sustainability Assessment of Municipal Infrastructure Projects Based on Continuous Interval Argumentation Ordered Weighted Average (C-OWA) and Cloud Models

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