Proyecto de evaluación ambiental de configuraciones urbano territoriales en el área de amortiguación del paisaje protegido Laguna de Rocha

Abstract

Human welfare and environmental sustainability depends on proper ecosystem management. Responsible land use should realize that politics changes and environmental management practices produce multiple effects on these. Laguna de Rocha belongs to the National System of Protected Areas under the category of Protected Landscape in order to preserve the ecosystem functioning and the interactions between humans and nature. About the buffer zone overlaps the Coastal Lagoons Local Land Use Plan, aims to regulate the huge economic pressures by land use, promoting urbanization and quadrupling possible to construct surface. With the objective of transforming threats into opportunities through sustainable developments, the project aims to analyze the behavior of urban-territorial configurations, evaluating sustainability and support the implementation of the protected area, selecting those that minimize the impact on the landscape the natural functioning of the system, enabling urban-tourism development.