Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• jamal mosaffaie ¹
• Ataollah Ebrahimi ²
• Mahmood Arabkhedri ³
• Parviz Garshasbi ⁴
• Amin Salehpour Jam ⁵
• Mahmoudreza Tabatabaei ⁶
• Hamidreza Peyrowan ⁷
• Mohammadreza Gharibreza ⁸
• Mehran Zand ⁹
• Bagher Ghermez Cheshme ¹⁰

¹ Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute, Tehran, Iran.

² Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI)

³ Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)

⁵ Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

⁶ Member of scientific boAssistant Professor, Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran

⁷ SCWMRI

⁸ Head Department of River and Coastal Engineering

⁹ Associate Professor,Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute,Tehran,Iran.

¹⁰ Assistant Prof., Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

For the effective management of watersheds, it is necessary to conduct appropriate and practical research, which in turn requires solving the problems related to this area. This article intends to have an analysis of their problems in the field of soil conservation and watershed management based on common thinking with the research and education centers of agriculture and natural resources of the country. For this purpose, these problems were collected based on the request of the SCWMRI from the provincial branches. Then, the announcements were categorized in two organizational and thematic ways (general and partial). The results indicate that in this survey, 25 centers out of 32 provincial centers (78% participation) have announced 182 cases as problems in the research department in the field of soil conservation and watershed management. Thematic classification of the announced cases showed that the subjects of knowledge-based productivity of watershed resources, watershed monitoring and evaluation, and solving the gap in the research department with implementation have the most importance with 28, 26, and 25 cases (15%, 14%, and 13%), respectively. The results of organizational classification also indicate that the departments of the directorate and research departments of watershed management and also hydrology and water resources development have the most importance with 34, 28, and 24 cases (19%, 15%, and 14%), respectively. Based on the results of this research, the managers and decision-makers of the research and implementation departments of soil and watershed protection in the country will be able to have better targeting for their future policies, strategies and actions.

Keywords

• research and implementation
• soil conservation
• common thinking
• problem classification
• prioritization