Consideración y tratamiento de los paisajes agrarios en los instrumentos de protección ambiental, ordenación territorial y planeamiento urbanístico. Cantabria (España) como caso de estudio

Abstract

From the conceptual approach of the European Landscape Convention and under a territorial perspective, this research has analysed the autonomous and municipal regulations of Cantabria on rural areas in order to know what rules and documents deal with the rural landscape, and in particular agricultural landscapes, and, when they are treated, to find out what values and meanings they are being given (environmental, economic, cultural, heritage...). In general terms, most of the documents analysed have so far hardly dealt with landscapes, let alone everyday rural landscapes. In the best of cases, the primacy corresponds to indirect actions, through the management of the Special Protection Rustic Land under three complementary or alternative approaches, productive, environmental and visual, emphasizing increasingly interest in the possible economic use of the landscape.