MODELO ESPACIAL MULTIESCALA PARA LA PLANIFICACIÓN DE ÁREAS FORESTALES: UN EJEMPLO EN LA COMARCA DE A MARIÑA ORIENTAL (NE GALICIA)

Abstract

Developement in recent years of new trends in forestry planning - in the framework of Sustainable Forestry Planning - has acknowledged the need to widen the scope of action to one with multiple scales or functional levels in forestry areas. It also required from the compatibilization of different objectives of forestry production, corresponding with the multifunctional possibilities of the forest, oriented to the economical, social-cultural and ecological sustainability of forestry systems. In this work an application of spatial strategies at multiple scales is proposed, with the goal of establish a coherent compartimentation of the territory for forestry activities. With this objective, successful examples of spatial planning are analysed, in order to identify the key spatial concepts that ensure their successfulness. Next, a multiscale structure is developed responding to the dynamics and spatial arrangement of land uses in a shire in NE Galicia (Spain). As a result, a reference model is obtained for forestry planning, adapted to the characteristics and needs of land use in the study area, and which inter-connects three spatial levels. micro-, meso- and macroscale. Keywords: Sustainable Forestry Planning; multi-scale; spatial concept; land use; land use planning.