The Sustainable Management of the City: Examples of Implementation of Agenda 21 in Spain

J. Vázquez, M. P. Otón
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After the Rio Summit (1992), the European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns -held in Aalborg in May 1994- ended with the drawing up of the Aalborg Charter, a document signed by 80 European local administrations. This Charter set out the main principles of sustainable urban management through the Local Agenda 21 programme, with public-private agreement and citizens' participation as key principles. The work methodology of the Local Agenda 21 is based on the drawing up of several indicators on economic, social and environmental aspects. There are increasingly more municipalities in Europe implementing Local Agendas 21 and developing them through analysis, action plan and monitoring stages. This essay studies the implementation in Spain of two of the most important issues addressed in Local Agendas 21: sustainable mobility and the recovery of degraded urban areas. EMERGENCE OF THE LOCAL AGENDA 21 During the 1970's, European society in particular, but also the whole Western World, became more clearly aware that the economic growth model based on an irrational exploitation of natural resources and implemented without any environmental control could not be maintained indefinitely due to its unsustainability in the medium term, as some clear effects of environmental degradation were already evident. Thus, the need of a new development model entailing a rational management of natural resources with strict environmental control and protection instruments was recognized. However, it was not until the late 1980's that the concept of sustainable development spread, first appearing officially in the Brundtland Report of the United Nations World Commission on the Environment and Development in 1987, which defined it as: "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". Taking this new concept as a starting point, there was an attempt to adopt a new alternative development model, which became a reality in the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The Programme 21 came out of this summit. It was a comprehensive document which committed its signatories to boost sustainable development through the concepts of respect for the environment, social equity and durability (1).
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城市的可持续管理:在西班牙执行《21世纪议程》的例子
里约首脑会议(1992年)之后,1994年5月在奥尔堡举行的欧洲可持续城市和城镇会议以起草《奥尔堡宪章》结束,这是一份由80个欧洲地方行政当局签署的文件。该《宪章》规定了通过《21世纪地方议程》方案进行可持续城市管理的主要原则,公私协议和公民参与是主要原则。《21世纪地方议程》的工作方法是根据拟定关于经济、社会和环境方面的若干指标。欧洲越来越多的城市正在执行地方议程,并通过分析、行动计划和监测阶段来发展这些议程。本文研究了西班牙在21世纪地方议程中提出的两个最重要问题的实施情况:可持续的流动性和退化城市地区的恢复。20世纪70年代,特别是欧洲社会,而且整个西方世界都更加清楚地认识到,基于对自然资源的不合理开发和在没有任何环境控制的情况下实施的经济增长模式不可能无限期地维持下去,因为它在中期是不可持续的,因为环境退化的一些明显影响已经很明显。因此,人们认识到需要一种新的发展模式,包括以严格的环境控制和保护手段对自然资源进行合理管理。然而,直到20世纪80年代末,可持续发展的概念才开始传播开来。1987年,联合国世界环境与发展委员会的《布伦特兰报告》首次正式提出了可持续发展的概念。该报告将可持续发展定义为:“满足当代人的需要而不损害后代人满足其需要的能力的发展”。以这个新概念为起点,曾试图采用一种新的替代发展模式,这在1992年在里约热内卢举行的联合国环境与发展会议,即更为人所知的地球问题首脑会议上成为现实。这次首脑会议产生了《21世纪纲领》。这是一份全面的文件,签署国承诺通过尊重环境、社会公平和持久性的概念促进可持续发展(1)。
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