The impact of ecological footprint on the sustainability of urban design of the city

  • Zeyad Ali Ismael Department of Urban Planning, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq
  • Saba Jabbar Nemaa Department of Architecture Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Jathwa Abd-Al Kareem Ibrahem Department of Architecture Engineering, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Keywords: Ecological footprint, environmentally sustainable design, urban environment problems, sustainable consumption

Abstract

The cities of the world suffer from the horizontal expansion resulting from the large increase in population, and the consequent increase in the energy demand and food and increase the introduction of carbon dioxide. Therefore, the cities do not meet the needs of their residents, resulting in a set of designed planning problems for the cities urban environment and poor infrastructure and the absence of accounts for energy consumption or the amount of renewable energy produced. Due to the lack of research and studies on this subject, the research problem has resulted from the scientific need to reach the ecological footprint leads to the sustainability of the city urban design. The research has identified the following objectives: To study, understand and provide scientific knowledge about the ecological footprint with its various components, as well as to reach the variables that affect them, which lead to the sustainability of the city urban design. This will be addressed through the study of the sustainable urban design of the city to the most important problems in the cities and the study of the ecological footprint and its components and components, ending with the practical application of the ecological footprint in the sustainability of urban design of the city to reach the most important indicators of the impact of ecological footprint on the sustainability of the city urban design.

Published
2019-06-30
How to Cite
Ismael, Z., Nemaa, S., & Ibrahem, J. (2019). The impact of ecological footprint on the sustainability of urban design of the city. Association of Arab Universities Journal of Engineering Sciences, 26(2), 98-108. https://doi.org/10.33261/jaaru.2019.26.2.013
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