Development a practical model to designation and analysis of environmental planning strategies

Mehdi Farokhnejad, Mohammad Javad Amiri

Environmental planning is the process of evaluating how social, political, economic and governing factors affect the natural environment when considering development. With successful environmental planning, society wins by being able to use the area in productive ways, and the environment wins by being able to sustain itself for future generations. Environmental planning needs to develop new techniques. Which they can develop strategies and solutions to be applied strategies. One of the tools that help managers and planners to develop these strategies, that is using a SWOT analysis. In this study, by making use of the analytical network method, strengths and weaknesses due to internal factors and opportunities and threats caused by external factors were identified. Based on the findings, relevant strategies for the Environmental planning of the Tehran city and the executive programs needed for their implementation were designed. These strategies are limited for operational programs and priority. At this straight by using of Analytic Network Process, which is one of multi action methods for deciding the strategies were graded. Results shows that although the presented offensive patterns ranked best among strategies, followed by conservative, competitive and defensive patterns, but it was found that the use of a combination of the above-mentioned patterns and strategies with attention to their rankings provides the best opportunity to Environmental planning in Tehran city.