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Multi-Criteria Environmental Impact Assessment of Alternative Irrigation Networks with an Adopted Matrix-Based Method

Authors: Parisa-Sadat Ashofteh, Omid Bozorg-Haddad, Hugo A. Loáiciga

Published in: Water Resources Management | Issue 3/2017

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Environmental impact assessments (EIA) identify the type, importance, and severity of the environmental consequences of human activities. This study performs an EIA of the Shahriar dam irrigation project in Iran. Physical, biological, and social-economic-cultural criteria and parameters are evaluated in the short and long terms with the Leopold matrix method. Results show that short-term project implementation has its most negative impact in the biological realm (with a score of −48), while long-term implementation would impact most favorably the social-economic-cultural component (+233). A sensitivity analysis of the EIA was employed to determine the relative impacts of the physical, biological, and social-economic-cultural components of the Shahriar irrigation project.

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Title: Multi-Criteria Environmental Impact Assessment of Alternative Irrigation Networks with an Adopted Matrix-Based Method
Authors: Parisa-Sadat Ashofteh
Omid Bozorg-Haddad
Hugo A. Loáiciga
Publication date: 07-12-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Water Resources Management / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0920-4741
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1650
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-016-1554-9

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