Investigation the Socio-Economic Effectiveness of watershed management efforts in the some Provinces resulted from research achievements

During the past years, based on predetermined goals, relatively appropriate financial resources have been spent in the field of agricultural research and natural resources. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of research activities in Iran has always been accompanied by many debates by its supporters and opponents. With this approach, this study, with the aim of evaluating the effectiveness of watershed research, evaluates and measures the effectiveness of applied research projects including flood spreading, rain catchment surface system, underground dam and various soil protection treatments in Razavi Khorasan, North Khorasan, Kermanshah, Fars, Tehran, Qazvin, Zanjan and Semnan provinces. In order to investigate this issue, the key research projects that are based on solving the problems of watersheds in the aforementioned provinces, their identification and effectiveness in achieving the goals of watershed management from an economic and social point of view were examined. In the current research, the effectiveness of the research was evaluated using the cost-benefit method and the level of satisfaction of watershed criteria before and after the implementation of measures. The research results showed that in all the selected provinces, the implemented research projects were economically and socially effective, and among them, flood spreading projects had the highest economic index with an average benefit-cost ratio of 24. 5.