Pathology of Inter-Organizational Collaboration in environmental protection in the Iranian Administrative Law

 Article 50 of the Iranian constitution necessitates participation of all related government bodies in environmental protection. To this end, some Act have been enacted to provide legal base for participation of various public bodies. Inter-organizational collaboration is a necessary element in environmental protection. So the question is that has the Iranian administrative law been successful in devising the required mechanisms to this end or not? The article argues based on descriptive and analytical method that because of some institutional barriers like lack of enough jurisdiction or miss-division and fragmentation of jurisdictions among the related public bodies, the environmental administration faces with essential institutional barriers in effective environmental protection which can be dissolved by elaboration of good inter-organizational collaboration to this end.