Determinación de criterios y lineamientos básicos para la elaboración de una normativa de protección del paisaje para el área de influencia inmediata de la ciudad de Cuenca

Abstract

The landscape an important component of the territory, exists when it is perceived by the human being, has been object of multiple studies and approached by different disciplines. The growth of the cities, generates a territory adjacent to its limit, which is in the process of transition from rural to urban, here the landscape has lost its quality due to the processes that are generated; like the urban and industrial developments, mining exploitations, among others. This influences the loss of landscape quality and its values: environmental, historical, cultural and ecological. In our country, there is no specific law for the protection of the landscape, but a broad normative framework that has implicitly allowed its protection, and it is necessary to rethink national and local policies and strategies, so that the landscape can be treated as a component of mandatory analysis in the planning and planning of the territory at the different levels of government and at different planning scales, which will create a sensitivity to the issue and contribute to its value. Considering the exclusive competence established to autonomous decentralized cantonal and metropolitan governments, in Article 264 of the Constitution; It is pertinent to propose that this level of government is aimed at its value, for which purpose the regulatory instrument for its protection and management should be generated, the present work being a contribution in determining the basic criteria and guidelines that should be considered