Environmental Problems of Persian Gulf From Ecopolitical Perspective

Environmental risks and conflicts in the framework of the relations between countries and subsequently their role-playing in interaction and collaboration or conflicts and struggles between political actors especially in the level of states have reproduced serious discussions and disputes on environment, security and power which are interpreted as environmental geopolitics or ecopolitics by modern political geography. Geographically, the Persian Gulf is a semi enclosed sea that has a very low capacity of self-dredging in comparison to high seas; hence, it retains the pollutants for longer periods of time. Some of its environmental problems arise from the various activities of the people residing along the northern and southern shores. Since this situation has exacerbated by the factors such as oil and it’s subsequent pollutions, militarism and it’s subsequent destructio and desalinasion of sea water and the construction of artificial islands, overall one can conclude that regional convergence among the countries neighbouring this body of water in the process of bio regionalism would be an essential necessity.According to the research findings, states acting in geopolitical region of Persian Gulf to produce power, security and to sustain them, from one hand, and to protect this shared aquatic ecosystem in the event of sustainable development, from the other hand, should mobalize all collective cooperations and operationalize the bioregionalism in regional and supranational scales.