Diagnóstico y recomendaciones sobre el ordenamiento territorial en Colombia

Abstract

The book describes the regulatory development of the country's territorial and environmental planning and the main lines of jurisprudence that have been developed in the last 25 years. It also shows the change in the urban density of the main cities since the beginning of the 1990s, and the relationship between deforestation trends and territorial and environmental planning instruments in five selected municipalities. Also, it evaluates the implementation of territorial planning instruments in the urban agglomerations of Cali, Bucaramanga, Medellín, Pereira, Barranquilla and Bogotá, and the gaps between the objectives set out in the POTs and the territorial conditions achieved. The main global learnings about the relationship between sustainability and territorial planning are summarized. With the conclusions of the diagnostic exercise, a balance is made in a tree of problems of territorial and environmental planning of the country, complemented with interviews and workshops carried out within the framework of the project and a diagnosis of the existing literature. In the same way, the main lines of recommendation are presented and, finally, it shows an approximation to the estimated impacts of having denser cities on the emission of Greenhouse Gases.