Del minifundio al megaincendio. Transiciones, rupturas y nuevos retos cara a un desarrollo sostenible en el medio rural gallego.

Abstract

In a context of globalization, the Galician rural environment is facing new challenges and dares that cannot be addressed without first understanding the origin and scope of them, and that will force to establish a new paradigm of spatial planning that allows searching solutions to the main problems in a social context very different from that of previous eras and with sustainable development as the main challenge. In this sense, a preliminary diagnosis is made of the transitions carried out from a
model of mixed farming use of the environment, and that after a deep process of social transformation and the productive model, involved a livestock and forestry specialization, which at its once coexists with a greater urbanization and dispersion on the territory. To the problematic derived from this social and productive transformation we must add those that originate from the increasingly extreme weather conditions derived from the gradual process of climate change.
This change in the socioeconomic model in recent decades has led to a multifactorial and heterogeneous imbalance in different areas of the rural environment, which we consider is the trigger for problems such as the increase in the danger and dimensions of forest fires, the sizing and profitability of agricultural operations, abandonment and changes in the use of productive land, etc. For this purpose, a breakdown of this model is proposed, and possible measures are taken to consider.