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Abstract
Development projects, along with their positive impacts, have some direct and indirect impacts on natural and social environment that are potentially negative. There may be some undesired consequences if provisions are not foreseen for mitigating the negative impacts and reinforcing the positive ones. ...
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Development projects, along with their positive impacts, have some direct and indirect impacts on natural and social environment that are potentially negative. There may be some undesired consequences if provisions are not foreseen for mitigating the negative impacts and reinforcing the positive ones. Environmental, social, and economic impacts assessment of irrigation and drainage network projects in Korbal plain based on its beneficiaries’ view point was the main objective of this study. Research method was descriptive; non-experimental toward variables controlling; applied toward its object and the data was collected by survey technique. The statistical population of this study included all of the beneficiaries who were farming the modern irrigation and drainage network in Korbal plain, in Fars province. Totally, 280 beneficiaries were selected as sample groups. A questionnaire was used for data collection and its validity was approved by a panel of specialists and its reliability was examined by conducting a pilot study. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was about 0.79. Findings revealed that most of the beneficiaries believed that the project had relatively desirable environmental, social, and economic impacts. Among four groups of personal, economic, social, and situational determinants, two groups of personal and social determinants had more effect on beneficiaries’ impact assessment. Besides, regression analysis revealed that four groups of attitudinal variables had the highest effect on beneficiaries’ assessment toward the three types of impacts. Some recommendations are presented at the end of the article in order to improve implementation and benefits of such projects.
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Realization of development, specially rural and agricultural development,as well as soil and water resources efficiency enhancement and irrigationnetworks management improvement depend on the beneficiaries’participation. Therefore, it is necessary to have macro planning and to beaware of the factors ...
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Realization of development, specially rural and agricultural development,as well as soil and water resources efficiency enhancement and irrigationnetworks management improvement depend on the beneficiaries’participation. Therefore, it is necessary to have macro planning and to beaware of the factors influencing the beneficiaries' active participation inirrigation networks management. Accordingly, this research was executedto investigate how irrigation and drainage networks could be developedbased on the beneficiaries’ participatory strategies. The research area wasin the Bozhan River, Neyshabour County, Iran. Research method wasdescriptive by using survey technique. The research instrument included aquestionnaire. All the network beneficiaries were included in the researchstatistical population. Stratified random sampling was used to collect datafrom 254 beneficiaries. Findings revealed that among all variables of theresearch, ten variables including "referral of other farmers to a beneficiary(water user)", "visiting demonstration farms", "contact with extensionagents", "access to funds and facilities", "educational background","accessible amount of water", "cultivation area", "awareness of advantagesand disadvantages of participation", "conflict background with JihadKeshavarzi Organization" and "job satisfaction" could anticipate a total of60 percent of the variation of the dependent variable of ‘beneficiaries’participation’ in developing secondary and tertiary irrigation and drainagenetworks.