Geographical premises for the developmental and environmental arrangement

Abstract

The contingent significance of an environmentally sustainable territorial arrangement is analyzed from the particular point of view of Geography. Territorial arrangement means the representation of the results of man-geographic environmental interactions throughout history, implying different spatial configurations that create its own environment. Different socioeconomic development strategies lead to different models of territorial space arrangement; in a similar manner, any given territorial structure imposes conditions to the economic and social relations according to different processes: ecologic, productive and cultural. From this arises the difficulty for a territorial planned arrangement by public administration that justifies from the geographic exploration its significance. For Argentina, the environmental "constraints" related to territorial development, and the use of soil are analyzed from a legal point of view.