Rural development and land management

Abstract

It acknowledges the rural milieu as the territorial environment where food and the raw materials that society consumes are produced, and as the place where the people that perform these activities live. In a broader sense, the rural milieu is also considered as the sum of geographical elements that concentrate natural components such as biotic, geological, climatic and environmental resources, to which we abscribe fundamental values for the sustainable development of the communities and society in general. Never the less, what really take place inside the rural world is nowadays more complex and goes for beyond these issues, due to the fact that the rural vision is located in a larger dimension than that of only considering its spaces as producers of material goods or as generators of eco¬nomic benefits in the market. Said rural reality becomes more complicated still when we identify the presence of critical factors of a productive, social, cultural, environmental and institutional nature, that frequently repeat themselves affec¬ting the rural territories of the country. Accordingly, territorial management is an alternative for the new rural development