Advanced sustainable urban management
Introduction
The Andalusian urban sustainability strategy is a policy developed by the Junta de Andalucía with the objective of establishing actions aimed at achieving sustainable development in Andalusia.[1][2][3].
The urban environment is reaffirmed as one of the priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Environment"). From the conviction that the future of sustainable development of the planet will be decided in cities, and that to achieve this, social and economic development compatible with the rational use of natural resources must be promoted, it continues with the shared effort with other administrations and institutional agents, in the search to put into practice specific management policies immersed in a culture of sustainability.[4].
In this way, the Ministry of the Environment undertook a pioneering project in Spain called the Ciudad 21 Environmental Sustainability Program. To promote the development of the program, the Ministry of the Environment had the collaboration of the Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FAMP). Under the motto: “towards a network of sustainable cities in Andalusia”. It focuses on promoting networking on areas and subjects that make up the regional urban environment to establish a common meeting space that encourages coordination, the exchange of experiences, and the rationalization and effectiveness of efforts.[5].
Ciudad 21 serves as a reference for the Andalusian Urban Sustainability Strategy, which was born with the aim of becoming a guiding document for the coordination of actions related to urban sustainability. It does not replace other planning documents such as the Andalusian Sustainable Development Strategy") or the Andalusian Strategy to Fight Climate Change"), but rather complements and develops them.[6].
Ciudad 21 has been a reference as a model of urban sustainability for these entities, as well as for other Autonomous Communities thanks to the incorporation of the Program to the Network of Urban Sustainability Networks in charge of developing a national urban environment strategy.
At this time, all municipalities belonging to the City 21 Program, which joined in 2002, have a diagnosis of the environmental situation of their municipality, serving as a base document for planning their Action Plans. In order to establish homogeneous technical criteria, Ciudad 21 adapted the minimum contents of the Environmental Diagnostics, relying on the data and structure of the documents from those municipalities that had previously developed them.