اهمیت عملیات آبخیزداری دربهبود شرایط اقتصادی و اجتماعی آبخیزنشینان (مطالعه موردی: حوزه آبخیز آبعلی دماوند)

The socio-economic evaluation of watershed management activities is considered a scientific and important criterion, in the present study, for the aforementioned evaluation, the pilot watershed area of ​​Ab Ali and a number of its villages where watershed management activities were carried out were evaluated, which showed that the implementation of watershed management plans depends on the main variables. The plan includes social and economic variables that have been effective. The methodology of this action is based on documentary studies, including: review of documents, documents, reports and resources in the project office, field visit, conducting interviews, completing questionnaires at the levels of experts and villagers living in the pilot. Necessary investigations of the collected studies, especially from the socio-economic aspect, as well as field visits, completion of questionnaires, conversations with watershed residents and heads of households in the pilot area and pilot villages in the first step showed that about 89.38 percent of people agree with the activities of mechanical and about 10.60% of people were against the above operation, and about 73.57% of people were in favor of biological operation and about 26.42% of people were against the above operation. In total, about 81.47% of the people were in favor of the watershed management activities and about 18.51% of the people were against the watershed management activities in the Abali pilot area. The conducted studies show the relative success of the project in attracting people's participation, creating people's organizations, employment, increasing production, flood control and reviving pastures.