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Analysis of the process of formulation of the national land management policy in Costa Rica (pnot 2012–2040)
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This article applies the cognitive approach of Pierre Muller (1998), in some of the instruments of public action on the subject of territorial planning for the Costa Rican case in the period from 1995 to 2013, showing how the territorial planning arises. In the first time, in an environmental legislation initiative it was dimensioned in urban planning aspects linked to land use, somewhat limited. After that, various initiatives were generated up to what is presented today in a dimension of sustainable development, thus being a benchmark change. Some aspects that emerged from the analysis process were: referential of integral vision of territorial planning with environmental criteria (Organic Law of the Environment (LOA) of 1995); referential of the Common Vision and Regional Development at the Central American level (ACOT, 2010); referential of vision of planning of regional scale at national level that serves as a framing of the regulatory plans of the municipalities of the GAM (GAM Plan 2013); referential spatial vision of social, environmental and economic policies in the territory in three strategic areas: Habitat Quality; Environmental Protection and Management and Territorial Competitiveness (PNOT, 2012–2040); Referential vision of sustainability of the operational management of the strategic areas of the PNOT: Habitat Quality, Environmental Protection and Management and Territorial Competitiveness (PLANOT, 2012–2040).References
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