Institutions and land-use planning (PhD dissertation)

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.

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