TY - JOUR ID - 76580 TI - Economic Evaluation of the Effects of Reducing Environmental Water Requirement of Anzali Wetland on the Livelihood and Income of the Local Communities JO - Iranian journal of Ecohydrology JA - IJE LA - en SN - 2423-6098 AU - Modaberi, Hadi AU - Shokoohi, Alireza AD - Ph.D. Student, Department of Water Engineering, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran AD - Professor of Water Engineering Department, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 481 EP - 496 KW - Ecological services KW - Wetland economic value KW - Stakeholders income KW - IWRM KW - Anzali wetland DO - 10.22059/ije.2020.296387.1280 N2 - Wetlands, because of their direct and indirect services to the human community, are of vital importance and attract growing consideration for rehabilitation and maintenance. To preserve the wetlands’ environmental values and henceforth guaranteeing the welfare of the stakeholders, it is essential to provide them with their required water necessary for presenting proper ecological services to the related aqua creatures and stakeholders. In the present research, the international Anzali wetland was selected as the case study and a conceptual model, developed based on IWRM principals, was employed to evaluate the economic loss due to its ecological condition deterioration. Defining the favorable and minium acceptable ecological conditions in Anzali wetland, the economic values of its services in an IWRM framework were calculated. To quantify the ecological condition of Anzali wetland, the economic values of direct and indirect use-values and the non-use values of the wetland was calculated as much as 10,222,220 million Rials. Then, through using the lost benefit method, the reduced values of the present condition of the wetland’s ecological services compared with the suitable and minimum conditions were determined. In this paper, by introducing some indices for the main careers of the stakeholders, the impacts of unbalanced hydrological conditions on the wetland’s tangible ecological services and through which on the system’s integrated water resources management were revealed. UR - https://ije.ut.ac.ir/article_76580.html L1 - https://ije.ut.ac.ir/article_76580_b203647a780d278483cf6c15919006f7.pdf ER -