Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Asghar Mohammadi Fazel ¹
• Nematollah Khorasani ²
• Majid Abbaspour ²
• Seyed Mohammad Bagher Hojjati ²

¹ University of Environment, Karaj, Iran

² Environment and Energy Faculty, Science and Research Campus, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

While Iran has a rich biodiversity, it is suffering from lack of social, organizational, and managerial policies. Therefore, developing coherent strategies for the conservation of national biodiversity requires the implementation of an innovative method and needs engagement of a wide range of stakeholders and processes to ensure practical coordination. In this paper, a method generally introduced to review the "National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan of the Islamic Republic of Iran". This process is a multidimensional approach taken to fulfill different needs of potential stakeholders at national and provincial levels. A range of tools have been introduced to support the strategies to ensure that all stakeholders will participate in the process and through an outputs ownership approach.

Keywords

• Biodiversity
• environmental assessment
• strategy development