Planificación forestal táctica y ordenación territorial: planes de ordenación de los recursos forestales, una aplicación en el distrito ambiental I de Galicia (España)

Abstract

The spatial integral management and its multiple use are concepts more and more present in the forest planning, and in the different figures of spatial and sectorial planning. In Spain, until the present time, the norms and instruments of spatial planning, most of them with an urban planning conception, use to be precarious with respect to forest spaces. Only with the National Forest Law 43/2003, forest tactic management plans acquire more importance in Spain, being designated like Planes de Ordenación de Recursos Forestales or PORF (Management Plans of Forest Resources) and which according to this law, “have
been created like instruments of forest planning integrated within the framework of the land planning, and their scope of application will be the forest territories with homogeneous geographic, socioeconomic, ecological and cultural features, with larger extension than forest but inferior to the province”. In the case of Galicia, the forest unit that fulfils these requirements is the Environmental District. This article exposes the methodology that has been developed in order to elaborate this kind of plans in Galicia and their application in a concrete Environmental District: the Environmental District I, Ferrol.