The incorporation of Green Infrastructure in spatial planning

Abstract

Sustainable spatial planning of territories has incorporated, in the last two decades, basic work tools for the task of assigning new land uses. Landscape and green infrastructure have become basic pieces in the spatial planning and territorial management processes. In recent years, spatial planning experiences have been developed, in different countries of the world, based on the definition of the components that are part of green infrastructure of a territory. This instrument of spatial planning allows to delimit those areas that require protection and singular treatment in the phase of allocation of future land uses, for their environmental, patrimonial and cultural values or because they are spaces of connection between them. The Plan de Acción Territorial de Infraestructura Verde del Litoral (PATIVEL) in the Valencian Community, approved in 2018, is an interesting example for the protection of a particularly sensitive geographic area, where land use and interests diverse converge, often conflicting, but which requires conservation and sustainable management for the maintenance, present and future, of its activities.