التنمية المستدامة في المناطق الصحراوية الهضبة الغربية في العراق (أنموذجا)

Abstract

The sustainable development means the optimal investment of human and natural resources in order to achieve the process of environmental balance. This is to provide the continuity of their use and non-depletion to enable the future generations to get their benefits in order to live a better life in a way that provides essential needs for any population. Therefore the sustainable development aims not to exhaust the resources especially the rare ones  but to use them rationally. The desert areas are very rich of these resources especially the western plateau of Iraq, which is considered a source for many natural resources. Therefore the study attempts to highlight the role of the sustainable development to invest the desert areas like the western plateau, which has environmental capabilities that can be adopted to establish may developmental  projects in the light of human and  natural qualifications in order to set a clear study that invests different sources in this area of Iraq. The study is chosen because of many environmental problems that attack the desert areas  such as the availability of water ( the lifeblood of such areas)  which is being very scarce. Therefore the sustainable development is the means that can be adopted in addressing obstacles and some problems that prepares the way to invest these areas in a way that achieve equivalence in using resources and the ability to redistribution the population. And this helps in achieving the developmental balance in the desert areas of Iraq especially the western plateau