Social impact assessment (SIA) of the project of water pumping stations on the sustainable development of the local community: the lived experience of the villagers of the Khalsa plain of Dereshahr city.

Mirzaei, Ebrahim

doi:10.22055/qjsd.2025.49679.3070

Social impact assessment (SIA) of the project of water pumping stations on the sustainable development of the local community: the lived experience of the villagers of the Khalsa plain of Dereshahr city.

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Document Type : Research Paper

Author

ebrahim mirzaei

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

10.22055/qjsd.2025.49679.3070

Abstract

The current study is a part of monitoring and in order to ensure the development project that brings the most benefits and the least costs. This qualitative research and data analysis was carried out in the framework of contextual theory and the studied population was the residents of 19 villages of Khalsa plain who are engaged in agriculture or who are knowledgeable about agriculture.The sampling method was purposeful and theoretical, and theoretical saturation was achieved by conducting interviews with 15 people. The findings show that the central phenomenon of this study is "social empowerment". The causal conditions governing this phenomenon include the categories of "water pump, land, variety of products, the amount of cultivation, investment".The causal conditions governing this phenomenon include the categories of "water pump, land, variety of products, amount of cultivation, investment)".The ruling bases are also "existence of water, geographical processes". Intervening conditions on the central phenomenon are also defined as "health (physical, mental, social), the amount of hectares of land, the number of human resources".The results showed that with the introduction of this project, the quality of life has improved and to some extent it has led to medium-term sustainable development, but unfortunately, the indiscriminate use of technology and traditional irrigation methods by farmers in the local community has had unfortunate and catastrophic consequences regarding water. And it will create the soil in terms of long-term sustainable development.

Keywords

Social effects

pumping station

sustainable development

lived experience

Khalase plain

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