Assessment of non-monetary facilities in Urmia Lake basin under PES scheme: a rehabilitation solution for the dry lake in Iran

Assessment of non-monetary facilities in Urmia Lake basin under PES scheme: a rehabilitation solution for the dry lake in Iran

The decline in Urmia Lake basin’s water resources has resulted in a severe drought of the lake. The drought of this hyper-saline lake has put lives of 6.4 million inhabitants at risk. This study was conducted to assess the technical and economic employability of a payment for ecosystem services (PES...

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Published in:Environment, development and sustainability Vol. 23; no. 7; pp. 10141 - 10172
Main Authors: Daneshi, Alireza, Panahi, Mostafa, Masoomi, Saber, Vafakhah, Mehdi, Azadi, Hossein, Mobeen, Muhammad, Ozuyar, Pinar Gökcin, Tanaskovik, Vjekoslav
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01-07-2021
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Carthamus tinctorius
Cropping systems
Cultivation
Drought
Earth and Environmental Science
Ecology
Economic Geology
Economic Growth
Ecosystem services
Employability
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental Management
Farmers
Irrigation
Irrigation systems
Lake basins
Land use
Payments
Playas
Rapeseed
Recruitment
Rehabilitation
River basins
Saline environments
Salt lakes
Soybeans
Sustainable Development
Target recognition
Water policy
Water resources
Water resources management
Urmia Lake
Cropping pattern
Irrigation system
Benefit–cost ratio
Payment for ecosystem services
Willingness to accept
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Summary:The decline in Urmia Lake basin’s water resources has resulted in a severe drought of the lake. The drought of this hyper-saline lake has put lives of 6.4 million inhabitants at risk. This study was conducted to assess the technical and economic employability of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) method as a policy tool to improve water resources management of Siminehroud river basin which is the most important tributary of Urmia Lake basin. For this purpose, the target areas were identified after the development of a land-use map for the basin. Then, by recruiting the integrated interview method and distributing 398 questionnaires, the required data were collected to assess the employability of the proposed PES method. Among various PES schemes, two methods including a) payment for shifting irrigation methods and b) payment to change cropping patterns in the frame of “Willingness to Accept” (WTA) were proposed to farmers. The results suggest that farmers highly welcomed both proposed methods. The benefit–cost ratio (BCR) for the change in irrigation system was 3.98, whereas the changes for the cropping pattern were 0.8 (for rapeseed), 0.72 (for soybean), and 1.09 (for safflower). As a result, shifting irrigation methods and changing cultivation patterns to safflower are both economically justifiable.
ISSN:1387-585X
1573-2975
DOI:10.1007/s10668-020-01051-y