Green Infrastructure in Spanish Spatial Planning?

Authors

  • Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Espinosa
  • Francisco Aguilera Benavente

Keywords:

Green infrastructure, environmental planning, land use planning, spatial plans

Abstract

Green infrastructure (GI) can be understood as a strategically planned network of natural
and semi-natural areas, designed and managed to provide multiple ecosystem services. Since its
inception in the late twentieth century, the GI concept has been incorporated into many planning
policies and actions on different scales, such that it now appears that the inclusion of decidedly
environmental issues will be increasingly common and effective in spatial planning. In this paper
we analyse the extent to which GI is being included in planning on a nationwide scale in Spain
(excluding urban planning) as a new instrument for environmental planning, by reviewing the
current spatial plans in Spain’s autonomous regions, particularly the sub-regional ones. The results
show that, although the number of references to the GI concept that are made in them is still small,
some of the principles on which it is based are indeed included in many of the plans studied,
particularly those developed more recently. We may therefore infer that this concept is gradually
being built into the planning process, thus suggesting an opportunity for a new, better integrated
and more multifunctional way of undertaking planning in Spain.

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Published

2016-09-20

How to Cite

Rodríguez Espinosa, V. M., & Aguilera Benavente, F. (2016). Green Infrastructure in Spanish Spatial Planning?. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 48(189), 399–418. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76490

Issue

Vol. XLVIII, núm. 189 (2016)

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Copyright (c) 2016 Víctor Manuel Rodríguez Espinosa, Francisco Aguilera Benavente

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