Strategies of planning and development and the role of the Iraqi geographer _ A study of the geographical thought

Abstract

This research analyzed the role of the Iraqi geographer in development and planning strategies based on the subjects of master's and doctoral dissertations that were discussed in the Department of Geography - College of Arts - University of Baghdad, and according to the period prescribed for the study. Al-Iraqi lays geographical foundations as an end from which planning and development begins, as the science of geography puts geographical experience and applied geographical research in the service of improving the conditions of life everywhere on earth. Spatial and social, he seeks to become a partner in managing the place and working to change the inherited organization of this field in order to improve and upgrade the various aspects and conditions of life, after he shows the pitfalls that this organization faces and then prepares and rehabilitates it in a way that raises the level of its usefulness as required, and the researcher has defined the concepts The basic principles that were mentioned in our research, given that the results of the research came with the implications of the concepts that it adopted.