Afsane Malekhoseyni; Aliasgar Mirakzadeh
Volume 19, Issue 53 , September 2015, , Pages 325-351
Abstract
Dam projects that affect people's basic rights violated by these projects, homes, farms, orchards and social affiliations have lost their culture. Dams impact on livelihoods, social and cultural systems and are often not explicitly given in the categories of dams and the benefits analysis is not addressed. ...
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Dam projects that affect people's basic rights violated by these projects, homes, farms, orchards and social affiliations have lost their culture. Dams impact on livelihoods, social and cultural systems and are often not explicitly given in the categories of dams and the benefits analysis is not addressed. Therefore considering worldwide development trend for dam construction, especially in Iran, the necessity of reviewal the socio-economic impacts of dam construction thus becomes apparent. Solymanshah dam was constructed in 2006 in the Sonqur city. The main purpose of research was analysis of socio-economic impacts of solymanshah dam on rural development in areas under irrigation and drainage network. Statistical population consisted of householders in rural that are under direct effects of dam (1273 member) 291 of whom were selected for Morgan table by using stratified sampling method with Proportional allocation. Composite Index (CI) and Moris mode were used for analysis of data. Results showed that the most important positive socio-economic impacts of dam on region includes addition in people's income via promotion in agricultural activities that have carried out by dam, development of agricultural lands, interance of tourism in the region and the development of rural tourism. In addition in people's income via nonagricultural occupations, the development of rural roads and the improvement of communication, addition are added to economic worth of farm lands, and the revival of green and enjoyment landscapes of villages. Also the results showed that the most important negative socio-economic impacts of dam on region included: loss of socio-cultural attachments (memories, mosques and religion places, the upset of customary land in Villages, sinking grave ancestors), distortion of some part of high quality farm lands, distortion of rural houses, losing the first job for many of the villagers especially farming, the lose of adult fruit trees and worthwhile gardens and seizing of villager’s land with low prices. The results also showed that between 12 villages which were directly under irrigation and drainage network of the dam, Soleimanshah and Joubkabod Olya were under development and other were loss developed. Also results showed that two villages of Ghiasabadi and Qorveh less than others have enjoyed the benefits of dam construction.
