Sustainable Development the Way to Overcome Development Challenges In Iraq

Abstract

The international community identified the components of sustainable development as: economic growth, social development, the protection of the environment and natural resources. The importance of sustainable development in a planning approach comes from its ability to achieve a set of national and comprehensive goals. It aims to improve the living conditions of all people and secure their needs without overuse the natural resources. Iraq has good potentialities like oil, Population: Agriculture: Industries, but there are many challenges facing it , like: spatial balance Challenges (population distribution), economic balance (regional differences), the infrastructure, Unemployment, poverty, illiteracy, and corruption. We think that we can overcome all these challenges depending upon sustainable development.