Crisis Ambiental y Ordenamiento Territorial de los Bosques Nativos en la Provincia de Salta: entre la Política Ambiental Sostenible y la Gestión Territorial Participativa

Abstract

In this paper I inquire into the potential of territorial management as an instrument of comprehensive planning for an environmental policy that will lead to sustainability and social justice. To do this I focus on the analysis of a court case that developed around the implementation of the National Law 26,331, of "native forests". Since its sanction in 2007 it established Land use Planning of Native Forests as an instrument to regulate its proper uses. The law sets up common 'sustainable' criteria that should guide the Land use Planning that each province should carry out, adding the mandatory inclusion of social participation mechanisms. From understanding land use planning as one of comprehensive planning which aims to harmonize the policy goals (objectives of the Act) with the means to implement it (instruments), I wonder about the boundaries between them and how they