Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Urban planning faces a new challenge: the double need to curb climate change and, more importantly, to cope with the risks posed by new resilient planning. It is not only about planning new growth capable of resisting the increasingly real threat of climate, it is also about guaranteeing conservation of the most vulnerable areas, avoiding new construction or even ensuring the demolition or relocation of existing buildings. This article focuses on analyses of previous experiences in urban planning and on the legal instruments to adapt the coast to comparative law. It analyses the limits and possibilities of urban planning legislation to address climate change. In many cases, this creates a complex legal problem regarding the urban development rights of private property owners and supposes a real collective challenge for the future.

Studies established that oceans cover 71% of the Earth's surface. This area of the planet, nowadays, suffers from plastic pollution due to its inadequate disposal, which affects marine fauna and flora. Only 9% of these plastics are reused or recycled, meaning that the rest ends up being garbage that goes into different places. According to United Nations Environmental Program, about 90% of the waste that is floating in the oceans comes from plastic or derived. Given this scenario, the UN has established the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources as one of its sustainable development main goals, to be accomplished in 2030. This goal will not be achieved without the containment of contemporary predatory capitalism, were the general model of life is linked to consumption, as a way of demonstrating the identity of the individual, his ethical values and behaviors, requiring more effective coercive norms, organized with economic incentive policies. Considering that Brazil and Panama are ROCRAM members, and that one of its main principles is to integrate efforts and exchange experiences in order to make more effective implementation of international conventions on maritime pollution, it’s possible to compare these two countries related legislation. As a result of an ongoing research, this paper proposes as a mechanism to approach to a possible answer and to address the following points in the investigation: What are the international environmental agreements related to the protection against incorrect plastic disposal and ocean pollution? What are theenvironmental legal norms applied by Brazil and Panama, and the relationship between the legal norms and the effectiveness (or not) of pollution reduction? The methodology is based on a descriptive investigation, through data collection, making an analysis and focusing on solving the questions established above, according to the existing international legislation, aiming for ocean protection.

ABSTRACT:Together with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the promotion of renewable energies, energy efficiency is one of the priority objectives of the EU's energy policy with a view to ensuring the sustainability of the model in terms of environmental and economic sustainability and security of supply. The deployment of energy saving and optimisation measures in the building sector is considered crucial as it is one of the main energy consumers of the Community area. To this end, the member states have committed themselves to promoting the construction and comprehensive refurbishment of buildings with a high energy qualification and nearly zero energy building in order to achieve the targets set by the European institutions for the years 2020 and 2030. District heating and cooling networks are a good example of the use of highly efficient technologies to obtain low carbon dioxide emissions and significant energy savings in buildings and installations. This work analyzes an innovative project in this field, the District Heating and Cooling(Xarxa Espavilada) in Olot, which allows an area of 40,000 square meters to operate exclusively with renewable energy through a formula of energy trilogy (biomass, geothermal and photovoltaic).

In the first decade of the XXI century, Catalonia has successfully received Land Stewardship as a strategy for nature conservation. As a result, many efforts have been taken to regulate Land Stewardship agreements in the Catalan civil law given the great opportunity of the Catalan private law codification that has taken place in Catalonia during the present and previous decade. For this purposes, all features of these agreements, such as duration, effects and nature have been thoroughly studied giving place to specific provisions in the Civil Code of Catalonia. This unique experience is studied in this article, extracting the key elements, learning and suggestions leading to some guidelines for a European common roadmap to the regulation of land Stewardship agreements.

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Perspectiva del Derecho Internacional del Medio Ambiente (Primer semestre 2019)

Jurisprudencia ambiental en la Comunidad de Madrid (Primer semestre 2019)

Derecho y políticas ambientales en La Rioja (Primer semestre 2019)

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Asturias (Primer semestre 2019)

Derecho y políticas ambientales en Galicia (Primer semestre 2019)