Author(s)

Mukdad A. Al-Khateeb¹, Nadhir Al-Ansari², Sven Knutsson²

¹University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq.
²Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden.

Iraq is facing fatal challenges: internal, external and natural that are threatening the well-being of the Iraqi community at present and certainly jeopardizing the sustainable development at all levels of Sustainable Development (SD)-Capitals: natural, human and social, and manufactured/financial. This paper is intended to discuss on establishing a Sustainable Neighborhood in Baghdad, where it could serve as an experimental project to test the forms of expenditure that would guarantee the best eco-efficient transformation of expenditure to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper illustrates the challenges of SD and the factors that would exacerbate their effect unless dealing with through scientific-well managed procedures based on green growth policies and sustainable development strategies.

Challenges of Sustainable Development in Iraq, Investment for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Capitals, Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Neighborhood, Triple Partnership

Al-Khateeb, M. , Al-Ansari, N. and Knutsson, S. (2016) A Spatial Sustainable Development Model Based on Partnership between Government, Community and Specialist in Baghdad. Creative Education, 7, 1881-1890. doi: 10.4236/ce.2016.714190.