Medio ambiente y ordenación del territorio

The book that I am pleased to present is the result of the research "Environment and territorial planning" that the Environmental Law Research Group of the Externado de Colombia University projected with the objective of identifying and studying the concepts of planning and planning. , as well as some territorial planning and environmental planning exercises developed in Spain and Colombia, in order to identify the legal framework and public policies that have been developed in the matter, and verify their achievements and difficulties.

Before describing the content and structure of the document, we begin by indicating that from a terminological point of view, ordering implies "Placing something or someone according to a plan or in a convenient manner", "Directing and directing something to an end" (DRAE, 2014). We understand that if we refer to organization we are talking about a process through which things or elements are ordered in such a way that, if the stages identified in a plan are carried out, the goal that has previously been projected and delimited is achieved. .

Now, the territory being the basis on which multiple human activities are developed that are carried out in accordance with the delimitations determined by the legal system on which the social State of law is built, it is necessary that in addition to the tools defined in the framework normative, planning and territorial ordering instruments are built and developed that allow the State to prescribe a series of procedures that encourage it to achieve its substantial objectives.