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This paper focuses on the strategic planning method linked to the territory's sustainable development as it is currently being proposed by various organisms involved in public policies in Peru. It is aimed to discuss the methodology in terms of its validity as a new theoretical paradigm. Its ultimate goal is to bring about a new comprehension of the strategic planning process within the present competitive framework -among districts, provinces, regions, etc.- featured by factors such as human resources assessment, expressive technological investments and emphasis on inter-connectivity, among others. The paper starts by revising the strategic planning model genesis within the public initiative sector and its relationship with the attraction of private investments at local scale. The percourse which links one point to the other goes through both the perspective of economists and administrators and the vision of prominent planners. It ends up by showing the possibilities of a new prospect in the strategic planning of development at local scale, as well as existing doubts regarding the model: firstly, if we lack adequate information in reference to the objective capacities of our closest competitors, we will hardly be able to elaborate competitive strategies favorable to us in a specific environment; secondly, we consider that, in the current context of our country, the goals in the territory development process must be guidelined by employment and income generation for local population and this, without doubt, relies on systematic planning of investment attraction; and finally, we accept that strategic planning may constitute a tool that will enable to consolidate the decentralization and territorial integration processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to show the Strategic Environmental System (SAE) as a tool to strategic planning, and a model to territorial competitivity applied in practice with long run objectives to integrate the environmental aspects in the development planning processes, increasing the knowledge level about the environmental context and the interrelations with other dimensions of sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is land management? How important it is as instrument for environmental monitoring? In this paper the author tries to answer to this and other issues related to the importance of this concept as a tool for sustainable development. Moreover, it presents an exegetic analysis of how this concept has been attended by governmental administrations linked to the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I show the experience obtained in Mexico and Latin America from the application of the Methodological Framework for the Evaluation of Management Systems with Sustainability Indicators between 1999 and 2005. These are diverse efforts to increase and evaluate the sustainability of agro ecosystems under various conditions, with different constraints and results; in some cases, these include the comparison of contrasting systems and, in others, the changes obtained for the same system under alternative ways of management. All the cases are attempts to make operative the concept of sustainability applied to sustainable development, specifically supported over the experience of evaluating agro ecosystems under the conditions of the Latin American countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I present a synthesis of what is understood for territorial management and its different stages when applied to specific cases. It departs from the concept that territorial management is not only a technical, economic, and political issue but also a cultural one, where the value systems play a very important role, because each society arranges its space according to its culture. Only by this way we may reach a sustainable territorial management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]