Governments of Iran have established several policies
to protect and manage the natural resources during the last
decades. Most of these efforts have taken top down
strategy and often have proven unsustainable and
unsuccessful. In recent years government of Iran has
developmed new approaches to solve this problem. Along
this a people centered program for sustainable
management of land and water resources was initiated, as a
joint program of UNDP and the government of Iran in
1997. Kushk-Abad watershed management operation is one
of these attempts to sustainable management of land and
water resources in Iran which is limitated as a joint program
of UNDP and Islamic Republic of Iran in 1997. This area
includes the region that is characterized by high population
density, natural resources degradation and declines in
agricultural productivity, posing significant challenges to
rural people to provide for the growing people participation
while maintaining the productivity of land and water
resources. This study was designed to analyze the role of
this theory in explaining people behavior to people
participation in WMO in Kushk-Abad basin in Iran.