Plan of Sustainable TerritorialManagement in Mexico

Methodological to Develop a Plan of Sustainable Territorial Management in Mexico. April 3th 2013 Mario Alberto Rodríguez Zamora, Arch Senior Land Use Planning & Settlements greenurbanleader@gmail.com ABSTRACT Conceptual Framework The proposed methodology is basically supported by the framework that given two concepts: the "sustainable development" and "land". The Planning and Land Use is a topic scientific to support management and recovery of landscape diversity through applied research, planning, and community service. I am an architect with experience at settlements with over 15 years of experience conducting planning land use research, neighborhood developing and territory management programs, and preparing impact assessment studies in Durango, Zacatecas, Guanajuato as pilot regions . My experience includes conducting monitoring-scale assessments of environmental integrity and landscape conservation values, including the project population area. I have previously and commented on a number of cities (52) on Impact Reports for Urban Development and Land Use Office, Mexico City. Statements Environmental and Landscape Impact (by SEDESOL) for projects in the neighborhood of the proposed (CITEC) project, and I have submitted comments previously on the Habitat project 2002. I am submitting the following comments concerning the territorial Jurisdictional Delineation for the Transportation and urban growth Corridor – North of Mexico. In general the major procedural issues with the previous jurisdictional delineation appear to have been modified, and my comments will focus on the functional assessment for municipal management conducted as part of the jurisdictional delineation and the proposed mitigation measures to compensate for impacts on population growth resources in the North Zone Mexican territorial. Intensification of land use around urban growth areas often threatens ecological and environmental integrity makes its use more difficult and costly. In the densely populated landscape of Mexico, the expansion of the agricultural frontier, mining and unsustainable exploitation of forests, infrastructure projects, land speculation, and urban development, housing and tourism, threaten many protected areas. At the same time, conservation agencies decisions can have significant impacts on the planning and development of land by neighboring landowners and users of natural resources and planning cannot extrinsically planned development in urban areas. Therefore, increased collaboration for planning and regulation of land use is increasingly important for various stakeholders involved in the management of slums areas dwindling, conservation 1 Methodological to Develop a Plan of Sustainable Territorial Management in Mexico. April 3th 2013 Mario Alberto Rodríguez Zamora, Arch Senior Land Use Planning & Settlements greenurbanleader@gmail.com corridors, and lands nearby when you are going in the decentralization process decision-making land, is a risky time to integrate the processes of local land use needs of protected areas and regional conservation projects. To study these phenomena, using national and local focus groups, participatory activities, interviews, field visits, expert observation, and review of literature, we collected data on six Mesoamerican countries (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Analyze national legal frameworks and governance structures and processes for decision-making on land use and the current situation in terms of planning and land use of the six countries. This study describes and compares promising patterns and trends, and best practices found nationwide and locally in and around protected areas for conservation agencies, NGOs, and local governments and communities around protected areas designated. We also identify limitations and constraints and needs local capacity building to improve the planning and control of land use in and around protected areas. Found promising mechanisms that are being used to encourage compatible uses and land management around protected areas include creating environmental committees and local planning (Ministry of Environment.); Preparation of municipal land use plans, including zoning proposals and limits on the subdivision of land, use of increasingly difficult processes ordinance review and study the impact of projects, enacting legislation and management criteria for buffer zones, the mandatory environmental impact studies and promotion the concept of mitigation measures for development projects, payments for environmental services to private owners, charges and taxes that can be used for conservation projects, and intergovernmental agreements to work together to plan and regulate land use. The innovative techniques found being used to absorb external pressure and improve connectivity of protected areas include conservation easements, purchase or transfer of development rights, creation of valid areas by private owners and municipal governments; projects supporting diversification economic, and tenure clarification and stabilization in and around protected areas and settlements. We can say about the American experience is the landscape and visual spatial expression of our environment saturated throughout the process anachronistic. It is a scarce natural resource, valuable and growing demand, easily depreciated and difficult to renew. The landscape is considered as the ability to discern our future. In order to evaluate a Mexican landscape there are several methods and procedures. A mixed method proposed representative subjectivity direct assessment and subsequent indirect analysis with principal component analysis. The proposed method attempts to solve the balance problem with review groups whose overall opinion is representative. A panel of 2 Methodological to Develop a Plan of Sustainable Territorial Management in Mexico. April 3th 2013 Mario Alberto Rodríguez Zamora, Arch Senior Land Use Planning & Settlements greenurbanleader@gmail.com experts participated in the principal component analysis of territorial planning. A method is also described for assessing the environmental fragility of the landscape is in danger, which together with the assessment allows the application of the criteria for preservation and conservation, according to the regulatory office. This will make it possible to quantify the losses (or gains) of valuable settlements, their destructive agents and mitigating measures. The population is now, for several reasons, the development of an "environmental consciousness", with a new value of natural areas and ecosystems. This explains the growing public resistance to the loss of areas of high tourism, scenic and recreational. For this reason, it is essential to control the environmental impact of certain infrastructure projects that can be conjugated the landscape, especially in making decisions regarding project proposals from private industry or public service. Experience across regions to strengthen relations in order to achieve the exchange of knowledge and assessment of sustainability and ecological landscape planning in settlements, in this case with Development Planning Office. End 2 3