TERRITORIAL APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT: A PERSPECTIVE FROM INSTITUTIONAL DIMENSION OF TERRITORIAL HERITAGE

Abstract

The territorial heritage is constituted by a set of goods and resources accumulated over time in a territory. Thus, based in the study from which the text results, the institutional dimension of territorial heritage was focused on the following components: political-administrative division; planning and public policies; and institutions and public actors. The objective of the paper is to assess the conceptualization of the descriptor components and variables that make up the political-administrative dimension of territorial heritage: a) the performance and obstacles of the State in an institutional political system guided by federalism; b) the implementation of public policies based on state capacities and institutional arrangements between the planning instances, related to the legacy and experiences generated in the proposition of participatory territorial planning; c) territorial governance analyzed by cooperative governance and by the endogenous approach. At the end of this paper, an assessment of the obstacles involved in the implementation of participatory and territorial governance is carried out.