البصمة البيئية في العراق بين تحديات الواقع و الرؤية المستقبلية

Abstract EN

The study examined the environmental footprint in the Arab countries and Iraq, and the importance of research is based on the environmental footprint as an indicator of the nature of the environmental challenges facing the Iraqi economy, especially when the level of human consumption of natural resources threatens the ability of nature to renew, as there is a problem in the deterioration of ecosystems, continuously and rapidly increasing.

Therefore, it explains the increasing need for sustainable development, and that development management needs tools and methods to calculate the demand for environmental resources and calculate the capacity of these resources to continuity.

So, the absence of environmental footprint means loss Developing countries, including Iraq, to one of the important accounting tools that make sustainable development a measurable component by measuring the human consumption of its vital field, compared to the ability of this vital field to renew itself under the assumption that the inverse relationship between the evolution of development paths and the development of environmental challenges has made reforming environmental reality a necessary and sufficient condition to ensure sustainable development.

The research has set the goal of demonstrating the evolution of environmental challenges, through the Environmental Footprint indicator with a vision for improving the environmental situation in Iraq.