Identifying Effective Solutions in the Field of Environmental Protection (case study Naghadeh Township)

This research was conducted with the mean goal of identifying environmental protection solutions in Naghadeh Township. The statistical population of this research included all employees of the Agricultural Jihad, Environment and Natural Resources Office (N=110). Krejcie Morgan table was used to determine the sample size (n=86). The Random sampling method was used in this research. To determine the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach s alpha was used (α=0.894) which indicates that the reliability of the questionnaire was appropriate. To analyze the findings and to achieve the research goals, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used. The findings show that awareness raising among people to improve their relationship with the environment (CV=0.215), the promotion of environmental culture and the definition of environmental guidelines among people (CV=0.225) and prevention of destruction of land and its change and destruction of rangelands and forests (CV=0.227) were identified as the most important effective environmental protection solutions in Naghadeh in west Azerbaijan province. Exploratory factor analysis was used to categorize effective environmental protection solutions. The results showed that seven factors were identified. These factors named as legal, socio-cultural, educational and awareness, managerial, economical, and environmental solutions. These seven factors account 74 percent of variations in environmental protection solutions.