Exploring the causes of policy making conflicts in the Environment and the Industry domains in Iran

The contradiction between the environment and the industry have always attracted the attention of many researchers, due to these domains inherent contradictions. This contradiction is meaningful, because on the one hand governments always seek to develop through industry growth and on the other hand, environmentalists and social activists consider environment as a valuable element underlying sustainable development. Therefore, one of the most important conflicts of government is revealed in policymaking in these field. In this research we tried to investigate the causes of policy conflicts in these two field by using the experts' point of view, and then ranking these factors using quantitative techniques. The five most important determinants of conflicts in environmental policy are: the primacy of political rationality, the adoption of short-term policy by the government, inefficiency of policymakers and environmental administrators, a rigorous look to development, considering the environment as a cost.