Analysis of Obstacles to the Implementation of National Environmental Strategies (Case Study: Clean Air Policy)

Aslipour, Hossein; Nooshiravan Baboli, Pegah; Yaghoobi, Elham

doi:10.30473/ee.2025.70694.2715

Analysis of Obstacles to the Implementation of National Environmental Strategies (Case Study: Clean Air Policy)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Associate Professor, Faculty of Public Administration, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

² Master of Public Policy, Faculty of Public Administration, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

³ Ph.D. Condidate in Decision Making and Public Policy, Faculty of Public Administration, Allameh Tabataba’I University, Tehran, Iran

10.30473/ee.2025.70694.2715

Abstract

Different levels can be considered for public policy making. The strategic level of policy-making is considered to be the intersection of public policy and strategic management. Public policy in its process approach has general stages of formulation, implementation and evaluation. The implementation phase has received less attention than other phases. Environmental policies are considered to be one of the important issues of strategic level in various countries because they have wide-ranging effects on individual citizens and affect their health directly and over a long period of time. One of the most obvious environmental issues in the country is air pollution, which has had many negative effects in recent years. Laws have been formulated to eliminate and reduce air pollution, but they have not been fully implemented. The current research follows the why analysis and prioritization of the implementation obstacles of the clean air law as one of the most important environmental strategies through the use of a combined approach (first thematic analysis and then Dimtel technique). Theme analysis through interviews with environmental managers and experts of the country and finally data coding has led to the formation of 5 overarching themes (obstacles related to executives and managers, environmental, structural, hardware and infrastructure and defects in the nature of the law). Then, in order to level the obstacles to the implementation of the clean air policy, with the help of organizing themes, a paired comparison questionnaire has been formed. Finally, the obstacles to the implementation of the clean air policy are classified into two levels: high (effective obstacles) and low (effective obstacles).

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