INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT: SOCIOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Integrated watershed management (IWM) is becoming increasingly important in such a country where the economy depends predominately on agriculture, but there are also fast-growing urban populations that depend on water and food supplies on an unprecedented scale and attention is shifting to overall socio-economic benefit along with better water and soil conservation. The ever-increasing pressure on the natural resources is further increased the intensity by the even faster economic growth the country has witnessed in the past decades. Unprecedented economic activities in areas such as agriculture, industry, power, and communication, are affecting land-use patterns in many ways. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the importance of the effective IWM, to point out the relations between its components and to realize on beneficiaries in any watershed. In particular, social, economic, environmental, and resource systems are all considered in order to improve the applicability of IWM approach. This paper presents that watershed management integrates various aspects of forestry, agriculture, ecology, soils, water use and other sciences to provide guidelines for the choosing appropriate IWM alternatives within the social and economic context.Addressing social and economic aspects is an essential part of evaluating the effects of IWM

Keywords

• IVM, social, economic, environmental

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