Dimensions and components of the green policy in the aviation industry

Subject Areas : environmental management

Ali Changizi ¹ , hasan givarian ² , Gholamreza hashemzadeh Khorasgani ³

1 - Ph.D. Student, Department of Public Administration, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Management, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2023-01-07 Accepted : 2023-10-17 Published : 2024-09-22

Keywords: public policy, environment, aviation industry, green policy.,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: The aviation is one of the main producers of greenhouse gases. Nowadays, improving the environmental performance is one of the important challenges of aviation. There is consensus on improvements in technology, aviation operations and infrastructure in order to reduce carbon emissions in the aviation sector. The aim of current study is identify and rank of the dimensions and components of the green policy in the aviation.

Material and Methodology: The direction of the research is applied and according to the type of method, it is mixed (quantitative and qualitative) and exploratory. Sampling in the qualitative part has been done purposefully and the interviews continued upto theoretical saturation was reached. Finally, an in-depth semi-structured interview was conducted with 14 experts in the aviation and climate changs. The data was analyzed using thematic analysis. After gathering the dimensions and components and designing the theme network, the dimensions and components were ranked by used of DANP method.

Findings: The results show that the green policy in the aviation includes structural, content, contextual, environmental dimensions and 14 components. The most important dimention was related to structural dimention (0.2548 weights), followed by contextual dimensions (0.2517), environmental dimension (0.2509) and content dimension (0.2425)

 

Discussion and Conclusion: To adopt a green policy in the aviation, focosed on the structural dimension is crutial and then other components of "green technology", "green infrastructure", "communication", "organizational structure", "planning" and "decision making" are very imortant in next stage.

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