@article{Poorzady:199807,
      recid = {199807},
      author = {Poorzady, M.},
      title = {Role of governmental and local policy in forest  degradation and sediment transportation to the Caspian Sea},
      journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial  Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics},
      address = {2012-05},
      number = {1333-2016-103836},
      pages = {2},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Forests protect water quality by slowing runoff,  stabilizing soils and filtering pollutants.
Conversion of  forest land to other uses interrupts these natural  processes and increases the
potential for water quality  impairment. Since soil erosion and sediment redistribution  have
implications for both soil and water resources, and  scientists have established that the
movements of soil,  sediment and water are intrinsically linked, it is critical  to implement
integrated resource protection strategies. It  is therefore, encouraging that policy maker and
managers  are now opting to manage soil erosion and sediment  transfers at a catchment or river
basin scale, as has been  proposed in the Eu water framework directive, for example.  Excessive
or enhanced soil erosion due to poor land  management can result in both on and off-site impacts
that  are detrimental to a whole range of receptors. Erosion,  transport and sedimentation
processes gain increasingly  importance in socio – economical and ecological respect.  This study
seeks to survey the role of forest degradation  and land use changes in soil erosion and  ultimately
sediment transportation by rivers. Based on  problem-solving logic, it is possible to drive a five
stage  model of policy cycle which is consisting of: agenda  setting, policy formulation, decision
making, policy  implementation and policy evaluation. The overarching  objective of this thesis is
to determine what strategies  and policies need to be implemented in order to decrease  the
treatments arising from sediment transition into the  Caspian Sea. In addition, this study seeks to
examine the  relationship between the extent of Hyrcanian forest  degradation and the extent of
sediments arising from both  degradation and soil erosion which are transported to the  Caspian
Sea.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199807},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199807},
}