Assessing land take control in spatial planning policies and legislation: the cases of Argentina, Colombia and Perú

• Autor(a) principal: Torres, Sergio Alejandro Guarin
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/36253
• topic: Land use; Public policies; Spatial planning; Land-use regulations; Land-take control

The land takes is a major environmental challenge, specifically for biodiversity and the degradation and fragmentation of ecosystems. The most used tools to control it are the design of public policies and spatial planning. Although land take has serious effects in Latin America, little is known about the control mechanisms of land take in this region. This paper evaluates the land take control mechanisms implemented by the spatial planning plans of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogota (Colombia) and Lima (Peru). The evaluation was carried out through a content analysis based on three variables, the frequency of the terms related to land take control, the consistency of their inclusion in the plans, and the consistency found between the strategic documents and the regulatory documents. The findings reveal that the land take does not emerge as important concerns compared to the objectives of the plans. The main strategies to control land take in the three cities were the programs for a more compact city, land zoning and the imposition of economic charges on new urban projects. It was found that Bogotá is the city that has the most complementary programs for the control of land take, while Buenos Aires is the city that shows the least complementary strategies. It was established that the main trade offs of land take are the demographic increase and the economic dynamics of each city, but none of the cities analyzed have programs to prevent these causes.