摘要：AbstractIn recent decades, environmental degradation and its consequences as well as the importance of its safeguarding have resulted in the emergence of many researches in different scientific fields. However, the environmental geopolitics, as O Tuathail states, deals with the relationship between the earth and human in geopolitical tradition. Accordingly, in this paper, by adopting critical geopolitics perspective and through descriptive-analytical method, the environmental geopolitics in the Persian Gulf is studied. In this regard, the artificial islands of Dubai are considered the study cases. The facts suggest that these islands which are created as the result of developmental policies of Dubai, have threatened the environmental security of Persian Gulf and have caused alarming environmental consequences for other coastal states.
