Explaining Strategic Environmental Assessment in Urban Development Policies (Case Study: Kermanshah County)

Given the importance of strategic environmental assessment in development policy documents The purpose of this research is to screen development policies in Kermanshah county And providing a model is a combination of principles and criteria of sustainability. The research approach is applied And focuses on analytical methods of strategic environmental assessment and AHP hierarchical analysis. In this process, 9 policies were extracted from the content analysis of the above-mentioned plans of Kermanshah county Screening and analysis of principles and criteria in the form of a questionnaire was performed on 18 experts and thinkers related to development and environmental issues in Kermanshah county Which were selected by snowball sampling method, were done for weighting and evaluation. Findings after the screening phase showed that Large and heavy industry development policy (refineries and petrochemicals) is a priority for strategic environmental assessment. The results of the principles and criteria were analyzed by Choice Expert software And principles and criteria of local and self-sufficient economic development with a final weight of 1.040 And determination of lands based on ecological capability with a final weight of 0.862 Has the highest score And decentralization of the office structure with a final weight of 0.009 has the lowest score. Although the adoption of this policy has led to the relative development of Kermanshah county And according to the results of strategic environmental assessment, research, although socially, economically, institutionally important And has effects and consequences on economic development However, the effects and consequences of not paying attention to environmental considerations and the ecological potential of large industrial areas in the long run lead to a decrease in social, economic and institutional effects.