Study of the structure and function of Non-governmental Environmental organizations and their roles in urban development process of Tehran province

Subject Areas : environmental management

Akramolmolouk Lahijanian ¹ , Reza Arjmandi ² , Naser Moharramnejad ³ , Mojtaba Jamshidi Deljoo ⁴

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Received: 2008-04-08 Accepted : 2008-07-23 Published : 2010-09-23

Keywords: Urban development, Structure, Function, Non-Governmental Environmental, People participation,

Abstract :

Non-governmental Environmental organizations are the centers that can conduct people participating in environment preservation and concentrating group and individual efforts to increase its productivity. Non-governmental Environmental organizations of Tehran province in recent years have had a little considerable growth, but qualitative growth of this organization couldn’t have a high curve like quantitative growth and as a result causes of these affairs should be studied. In order to increase the amount of participation of non-governmental Environmental organizations of Tehran province of urban development process, recognition of effective factors on the growth and development of these organizations through a scientific research which is considered a Study, laid the foundations of the goal of execution of this research. Studied Samples in this research were 80 managers and 185 members of Non-governmental Environmental organizations of Tehran province 265 persons in total. Summing up points of views of these managers and members of organizations concluded that these organizations are effective in urban development process. But this impressiveness is limited and not very considerable and impressiveness of activities is not conformed to real goals of these organizations.