Introduction of an integrated approach for watershed management through participatory preparation and implementation of land use plan (Case study, Hablehroud watershed)

While being considered as a complicated process, the management of a watershed area consists of different components each of which should be taken into account to assure the sustainability of the watershed.Such a systematic look at watershed area and its components as well as its inputs and outputs was the approach taken by “Sustainable Management of Land and Water Resources” Project (SMLWR), the joint Project between Iran Government and UNDP. In this regard and given the look at a basin as a dynamic and live system and the necessity of keeping the balance among the components of the system, SMLWR Project put the participatory designing and implementation of the land use plan and the integrated management plan on the agenda of its second. The process of preparation of the land use plan is included:

1-Preparing the land use plan 2-Approval of the land use plan 3-implementing of the suggested scot plans in the selected areas.