مجله آموزش محیط زیست و توسعه پایدار
سال یازدهم شماره 3 (بهار 1402)

In recent years, issues related to environmental protection and sustainability in the food sector have become a global concern. Also, the not-so-favorable conditions of our country in terms of environmental protection and the need to pay attention to green concepts at the management levels of organizations led to this innovative research aimed at designing a green quality management model in the food industry with an emphasis on environmental performance improvement. The ultimate purpose of this research is to be practical and in terms of methodology, a descriptive survey was used as well as a qualitative approach that has been done using the Grounded Theory method. To collect data, a library method was conducted within the literature on the subject matter and a purposive sampling method and theoretical saturation principle were used. In-depth and semi-structured interviews were also conducted with 16 officials and experts of companies active in the food industry in Ardabil province. The information obtained from the two phases was combined and data analysis was performed in a three-step process of open coding, axial and selective, with the help of MAXQDA software. The findings of this study show that the paradigm pattern of green quality management in the food industry has 5 components: green human resource management (causal conditions), green management thinking (contextual conditions), technology management, and environmental management system (interventional conditions), green management innovation (strategies) and supply chain green (consequences). Therefore, the success of the food industry to upgrade environmental performance will depend on the establishment and proper implementation of the designed model and the superior management of these components.

Although wetlands were once considered the best recreation areas in Iran, nowadays many of them have dried up and disappeared due to many factors such as ineffective management, human-wetland conflict, social conflicts, and natural phenomena. The present article has been carried out as an attempt to organize Heshilan Wetland in Kermanshah province, Iran, through capacity building and social engagement, based on the findings from the implementation of the Heshilan Wetland Management Plan with a social capacity building approach. The research method is a partnership approach with the function of research in practice. The statistical population of the research is local and government institutions as well as women and men of the villages around the Wetland, especially the villagers of Heshilan. To organize the Heshilan wetland, the CEPA (Communication, Education, and Public Awareness) tool was used as a tool for capacity building and social participation. A festival and some educational workshops were held for the people of Heshilan village in order to communicate with the community and local and government institutions and to highlight the importance of the Wetland. Moreover, some meetings were arranged with local trustees and they were investigated through a questionnaire, in line with the presentation of strategic plans. SWOT technique was used and data were analyzed with SPSS26 software. According to the results, establishing communication, training, and awareness were the most important effective factors to conserve and support the Wetland. Furthermore, ecotourism development and sustainable utilization can play an important role in empowering rural youth, earning a sustainable income, and providing the basis to reduce their migration to the surrounding areas.