Economic-Social Effects of Dam Construction base of Upstream Villagers-Case study: Maashoreh Dam in Lorestan Province

The dam is one of the huge development projects. With the implementation of this project, a lake will be formed behind the dam and a significant area of land will be submerged, which will create employment for many residents of the lake shore. Today, the construction of the dam has many socio-economic benefits and harms, and efforts are being made to obtain the most benefits and the least losses in the form of examining the effects of this project. The main purpose of this study is to assess the attitudes of residents of 14 villages upstream of the dam from the socio-economic effects of the construction of Mashoureh Dam in Lorestan province, on their lives. The statistical population in this study includes residents of villages upstream of Mashoureh Dam, 290 of whom were identified based on Cochran's formula. After collecting data, using SPSS software, a significant relationship was observed between the age variable of individuals with the level of satisfaction with the implementation of the project and the destination of immigrants in the future. The basis of the amount of land that goes under water was examined. According to the results, there was a significant difference in the attitude of residents in the two periods before and after the construction of the dam and the attitude of the two groups (based on the amount of water covered by their lands) and this indicates changes in socio-economic dimensions of residents due to Construction of a dam.