Green Infrastructure and Spatial Planning in Spain

Spatial planning uses in last years a sustainable planning tool: green infrastructure, which has been incorporated into territorial regulations and plans in several western countries. These include Spain, where an official document for the development of a green infrastructure strategy has recently been published by the central government. This paper analyses the integration of green infrastructure into the territorial policies of the Spanish autonomous communities through two different procedures: the approval of specific strategies and its integration into the spatial planning plans. We analyse in depth those autonomous communities that can be considered examples of good practices: Valencian Community, Basque Country and Cantabria, whose territorial plans give green infrastructure an important role in the definition, delimitation and management of land uses.