Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:36 GMT.
On January 16, José María Tubío defended his PhD dissertation
"Institutions and land-use planning. The adoption of land-use
act LOUGA by local authorities in Galicia", prepared under
supervision of professors Rafael Crecente and Harvey M. Jacobs.
This work approaches the reasons that local governments
had for adapting or not their land-use plans to the legal
framework currently in force. Considering that one of its
main goals was to control the increase of urban areas at
the expense or rural land, some of the conclusions seem
particularly interesting: for example, results suggest that
most municipalities that adopted the new system did so precisely
to increase their urban or developable area, while those
for which the new framework would imply a reduction of developable
area simply chose not to adopt the law.