REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: A METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL FOR A STUDY BEYOND UBRBAN ECOLOGY

摘要

The territorial system at a regional scale has a greater capacity to allow dissipation and assimilation of different environmental impacts produced in the urban system. Urban spaces, considered as the main promoters of serious environmental impacts, should be analyzed as interdependent systems of other territories, establishing this way the conformation of regional systems of great importance for analyzing the environmental sustainability capacity. The method of study of such capacity is the aim of this article (phase four of the methodology), which product is one of the results of the research conducted within the framework of the Master#39;s Degree thesis requirement of one of the authors. The selection of Twenty-two strategic environmental variables resulting from the analysis of two groups of environmental variables studied within this research become the main determinants that will determine the degree of success of environmental sustainability of an area set up as a region.