The need for a change in the development model and its reflect in Land Planning

Abstract

Land planning in the Basque Country is a 20-year validity discipline and a reference for other territories. Its mayor instrument, the Land Planning Guidelines (DOT), has started in 2011 a checking process with the aim of making a non substantial change. The present context of global crisis of resources motivates a research about the capacity of this instrument to face and put into practice a number of sustainability criterion, with the goal of checking the gap between the content of the document and reality. The intention is to contribute in the current checking process. It has been carried out a rigorous method of analysis of the original text, studying the favourable aspects to those criterion and the possible problematic matters for putting them into practice. The conclusion shows that the presence of two brought face to face discourses in the text, one close to keep the actual development model lines and an other in favour of reducing the insustainability of the system, helps the gap between the sustainability approach of the DOT and their putting into practice.