Áreas protegidas integradas ao ordenamento territorial

reflexões a partir da experiência das Ilhas Canárias, Espanha

Abstract

This work discusses the territorial planning experience in the Canary Islands, Spain. Since the 2000s, this autonomous community has made efforts to consolidate a systemic and coordinated planning model, which assumes the integration perspective of matters relating to natural attributes, urban land and management and uses of the territory, with a view to promoting development processes more balanced and sustainable. It aim, in this sense, make a reflection about the nature, limits, progress and challenges related to the consolidation of this proposal. This research, with the qualitative focus, involved the bibliographic and documentary analyses, as well semi-structured interviews with researchers, managers and environmental technical who lives de Canaria reality. The results indicate that, despite significant advances in terms of the integrated planning proposal, in reality, this design of planning still found challenges to effective your implementation, such as the excessive centralization of power in the levels of government, reduced technical capacity to implementation the planning instruments and fragility in the consolidation of territorial governance processes