AUDITORÍAS AMBIENTALES DE DESTINOS TURÍSTICOS. DIAGNOSIS TERRITORIAL PARA EL DESARROLLO DE AGENDAS 21 LOCALES

Abstract

     The socioenvironmental crisis is urging to act locally to limit human activities in terms of sustainability, or at least to mitigate its worst effects. According to this, the Agenda 21 —main product of the UNEP Rio’s Summit in 1992— was adapted to the European urban areas’ needs in the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns which was hold in Aalborg, Denmark on 27 May 1994. Notwithstanding, the same year the local council of Calvià (Majorca) established a pioneer target with the development of an Local Agenda 21, which was moreover specially adapted to the diagnosis and to the intervention on declining intensive tourist resorts. The aims of this strategy are co-ordinating all the managing subjects of the local administrations and favouring citizens participation in the definition of their territorial, social and environmental project. This paper analyse the aims and the results of the Calvia’s project, further to another Balearic project, called ECOTUR and managed by the Regional Government, and the Barcelona’s Provincial Government initiative, dealing with the local authorities of its jurisdiction. Our main aim is to advance in the knowledge and the application of this regional planning tool, specially adapted to tourist destinations, on the case of the Balearic Islands.