EEZ – Economic Ecological Zoning

The ordering of the territory, understood as an expression of economic, social, cultural and ecological, is set in Europe by the European Charter of Ordination of the Territory, 1984.

This document assumes the land as public policy and suggests that planning is “the land application of all public policies, economic and social aspects, urban and environmental issues, aiming at the location, organization and proper management of human activities (… ). “expected,” Socio-economic balanced regional: (…) land management should seek to contain the growth of crowded regions or subject to a too rapid development, encourage the development of backward areas and maintain or adapt infrastructure essential for economic recovery of the regions in decline or threatened with serious employment problems (…); Improved quality of life: the choice of location that allows for optimum use of space favoring the improvement of the quality of everyday life, whether home, work, culture, recreation, or even relations within human communities, including improving the welfare of the individual translated into job creation and installation of equipment of an economic, social and cultural, corresponding to aspirations of different sections of the population.

In relation to different types of territory, the European Charter for Regional Planning (established by the Council of the European Union), defines specific goals for the following regional areas: rural, urban areas, border regions, mountain regions, regions with structural weaknesses , depressed regions and coastal regions and islands.