Constitution, environment and spatial planning

Abstract

Throughout this work, the current environmental situation in which we find ourselves is studied (in Spain in particular, in the world, in general), in which the Environment is understood as a set of ecological, socio-economic interrelationships and cultural; or as a hybrid concept between nature and society, increasingly precise, in societies like ours, of a normative regulation, but not just any normative regulation, but a regulation that, while effective, is above all practical, making it clear that, among all the social issues that the 1978 constituents would have to face, the Environment would undoubtedly be one of the most innovative, novel and at the same time controversial; even more so taking into account the then limited progress of the issues concerning it. The protective and promoting activity of the public powers that the constitutional articles allude to, at the present time leads us to induce how in societies like ours the environment, in terms of law, intends to be embedded within a regulated and standardized social reality as ours replacing the classic concept of justice. Likewise, the physical habitable base is analyzed where natural conditions allow life to develop in society, a society that, being eminently regularized and regulated, needs that space to be specified and ordered in some way (foundations and precepts of space geographic), in order to know and organize the environment that surrounds them. Where society specifies the space that it intends to organize and order, in the territory, through administrative relations, by means of power relations, identifying a certain historical reality, issues that, without a doubt, affect and have repercussions on the organization of the own territory.