Ecological Urban System in GCC Countries: Potentials, Obstacles and Actions

Urban system consists of six main components: urbanism level, land cover, urban tissue, urban governance, consumed energy, and natural resources. Those components are addressing in different approaches depending on historical, cultural, demographical, architectural, geographical, and economical characteristics of the urban system. History and culture usually play the main role to put the settlements in a specific urbanism level. The more prosperous countries can make ecological urban systems for all their urban settlements. This approach is not only easy to implement in the countries that have natural resources, but also the country that is in an advanced phase of development. Solar and wind energy are the main ecological energy, particularly in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries. Renewable energy is one of the advantages of the geographic characteristic of those countries. this research explores in depth of the sophisticated map of the ecological urban system to come out with principles of producing an ecological urban system in GCC countries. The author used secondary, subjective, and descriptive research approaches, in which a theoretical background has explored the ecology and urban system components with their addressing characteristics to find out the relationship in between them. SWOT analysis study of resources and potentials have been carried out to explore the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of developing an ecological urban system in GCC countries. This research has been ended with the main results of the analysis, which are formed as recommended actions to be taken by concerned authorities to develop comprehensive ecological urban system.