Urban growth represents a contradiction to sustainable development, since the increases in urban areas, which have been seen to grow exponentially, are reflected in the reduction of natural and energy resources, so it is necessary to establish planning for this increase in the area of ​​urban populations through instruments that imply optimal growth in local and social development, as well as in the protection of the environment.[9]​.

Along with urban growth there is a series of problems such as environmental problems, with the so-called environmental footprint, due to the amount of energy, water and materials consumed by cities, the loss of biodiversity due to the construction of urban settlements; as well as transportation, housing, mobility and connectivity problems.[10]​.

La necesidad que tiene un Estado para la organización y desarrollo de la población y la conservación ambiental, se da a través de políticas con perspectivas político-sociales, económicas "Economía (ciencia económica)"), ambientales y culturales, las cuales siguen una perspectiva sistémica, prospectiva, democrática y participativa, dando como resultado el instrumento que también funge como política del Estado, que es el ordenamiento territorial.[11]​ Este instrumento entonces estaría buscando la disposición correcta, equilibrada y armónica de los componentes del territorio, sobre todo de los componentes antrópicos, para que así los impactos que las actividades humanas tienen sobre el medio ambiente, se puedan tanto prevenir, como aminorar.[12]​.

El ordenamiento territorial es llevado por una corriente de estudio interdisciplinario, además con el enfoque de la gestión eficiente del territorio, a partir de construcciones de consensos para que el Estado le defina finalmente como una verdadera política del Estado, para la resolución de problemáticas del territorio que exigen la participación de los poderes políticos, saberes técnicos específicos y holísticos, además de la coordinación de las políticas públicas que permitan la bases para la construcción de un sistema que pueda trascender en el tiempo.[13]​.

Environmental geography

Since the late 1960s, Geography as a discipline has had interest in territorial planning as a field of study,[14]​ from the field of Applied Geography, which is focused on what is understood as Geography in the public sector through the analysis of spatial models, which have methods and approaches that dominate the teaching of this.[15]​ However, Geography has to formulate objectives and methodologies that respond to the context of the century, since contemporary problems correspond to important issues that include risks, vulnerability, territorial distributions of biodiversity, planning and land use, landscape analysis, among many others, which require a view that is focused on an internationality between the elements that make up the geographical space and that create these problems, with critical positions focused on the understanding of environmental interdisciplinarity, so the role of Environmental Geography, no longer as a discipline, rather as a vision of Geography, is the proposed path to respond to these issues, through action and interpretation of public policies that help give visibility to environmental vulnerabilities and injustices.[16]​.

Urban growth represents a contradiction to sustainable development, since the increases in urban areas, which have been seen to grow exponentially, are reflected in the reduction of natural and energy resources, so it is necessary to establish planning for this increase in the area of ​​urban populations through instruments that imply optimal growth in local and social development, as well as in the protection of the environment.[9]​.

Along with urban growth there is a series of problems such as environmental problems, with the so-called environmental footprint, due to the amount of energy, water and materials consumed by cities, the loss of biodiversity due to the construction of urban settlements; as well as transportation, housing, mobility and connectivity problems.[10]​.

La necesidad que tiene un Estado para la organización y desarrollo de la población y la conservación ambiental, se da a través de políticas con perspectivas político-sociales, económicas "Economía (ciencia económica)"), ambientales y culturales, las cuales siguen una perspectiva sistémica, prospectiva, democrática y participativa, dando como resultado el instrumento que también funge como política del Estado, que es el ordenamiento territorial.[11]​ Este instrumento entonces estaría buscando la disposición correcta, equilibrada y armónica de los componentes del territorio, sobre todo de los componentes antrópicos, para que así los impactos que las actividades humanas tienen sobre el medio ambiente, se puedan tanto prevenir, como aminorar.[12]​.

El ordenamiento territorial es llevado por una corriente de estudio interdisciplinario, además con el enfoque de la gestión eficiente del territorio, a partir de construcciones de consensos para que el Estado le defina finalmente como una verdadera política del Estado, para la resolución de problemáticas del territorio que exigen la participación de los poderes políticos, saberes técnicos específicos y holísticos, además de la coordinación de las políticas públicas que permitan la bases para la construcción de un sistema que pueda trascender en el tiempo.[13]​.

Environmental geography

Since the late 1960s, Geography as a discipline has had interest in territorial planning as a field of study,[14]​ from the field of Applied Geography, which is focused on what is understood as Geography in the public sector through the analysis of spatial models, which have methods and approaches that dominate the teaching of this.[15]​ However, Geography has to formulate objectives and methodologies that respond to the context of the century, since contemporary problems correspond to important issues that include risks, vulnerability, territorial distributions of biodiversity, planning and land use, landscape analysis, among many others, which require a view that is focused on an internationality between the elements that make up the geographical space and that create these problems, with critical positions focused on the understanding of environmental interdisciplinarity, so the role of Environmental Geography, no longer as a discipline, rather as a vision of Geography, is the proposed path to respond to these issues, through action and interpretation of public policies that help give visibility to environmental vulnerabilities and injustices.[16]​.