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Royal Decree 665/2023 modifies the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain, the Regulation of Public Water Administration, and Royal Decree 9/2005. These modifications respond to the reforms established in the Council's Proposal for the Implementation Decision regarding the approval of Spain's recovery and resilience plan assessment. The main objective of this decree is to simplify the management of the public hydraulic domain and update the regulatory framework to the new existing pressures on the management of the PHD. Measures are included to reduce administrative burdens and promote environmental recovery after forest fires. It also addresses the management of invasive exotic species and plantations in the public hydraulic domain. The text presents modifications to the Hydrological Planning Royal Decree (RDPH) with the aim of streamlining and homogenizing administrative procedures related to water. A simplified regime is established for the discharge of low-impact wastewater, and the digitization of water use control is promoted. Measures are also included to prevent water pollution due to agricultural activity and criteria are established for the protection of groundwater. In addition, a procedure is established to assess damages and define actions in case of localized contamination of an aquifer. Royal Decree 665/2023 modifies the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain (RDPH) in several aspects. The direct discharge of wastewater is prohibited regardless of its content, and indirect discharges are limited, requiring a hydrogeological study for authorization. A new regulatory framework is established for aquifer recharge, and adjustments are made in flood risk planning and management. The mapping of the public domain is also updated, and discharges from the overflow of the sanitation system during rain episodes in cities are regulated. In addition, aspects of the concessionary regime for water use are addressed, and administrative procedures are improved. The modification came into effect on September 20, 2023. [Extracted from the article]

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This study analyses the effect of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) comparing mortality data of a specific rare disease (Huntington) in three levels of spatial aggregation in Spain. The objective is to compare mortality indicators and cartographic visualisations in order to soundly advise on the optimal aggregation level according to population, covered area, and number of cases. We designed an adjacency ratio to observe the effect of neighbourhood relationships among three geographic units: province; district (comarca); municipality. For each level of aggregation, we performed epidemiological indicators of mortality as well as local indicators of spatial association. Maps were plotted with user-defined intervals to compare visual and statistical differences. MAUP-related effects are particularly noticeable in relatively infrequent events such as rare diseases. We found that district displayed the highest indicator for stability in the adjacency ratio and showed optimal characteristics for spatial resolution and the amount of information revealed through plotting. This helps in the choice of the working scale that can be used with other diseases or the levels of aggregation as a first step for more advanced epidemiological analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work analyses soil loss over the last 150 years due to urban growth in one of the boroughs of highest environmental value around Madrid (Spain), i.e. Colmenar Viejo. The extent and patterns followed by urban extension are examined retrospectively using a present cartographic base layer. This evolutionary approach considering space and time has required a thorough compilation of cartographic sources that were created using classic topography, photogrammetry or remote sensing, some of which have been rarely used so far. These documents have been georeferenced, edited and handled using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing programs. Urban growth in Colmenar Viejo has been steady, has registered exponential increases (soil sealing affected 0.14% of the total municipal territory in 1861 and covers 2.64% nowadays) and has followed similar patterns to other Spanish towns influenced by metropolitan processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pursuant to the Royal Order of July 25, 1946, issued by the Ministry of Government, the Council Architect of Alicante Emilio Jover Pierron made the General Plan of the city of Alicante. His work, which started immediately in 1846, led to a document which contained the alignment of the buildings existing at the time, and also the future plans, consisting in the modification of some previous buildings and the creation of new ones. This plan was the first graphical instrument of this nature affecting the whole of the city; nevertheless, such an interesting item has been now missing since 1990. This paper summarizes the study of the only remains of the document and the work leading to its recovery through digital reconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Architectural drawing has always been used as a tool of expression as well as for study and exploration. The aim of this research work is to find an approach to chart chorographies of the historic urban landscape of Granada by using current cartographic techniques. In relation to this, it was critical to study the methodology of a chorographer from the Renaissence such as as Anton van den Wyngaerde. When we f irst outlined the way of tracing these chorographies, an unexpected result came up. Setting the topography as a fundamental element in the urban configuration of Granada, we began to realize that the main hills upon which Granada is set converge at the same place: the Cathedral. To be more precise, they do so on the supposed location of the Turpiana Tower, the minaret of the old Main Mosque. This discovery may lead to a new contribution to the debate about the city and its landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two productions in the field of urban representation applied to the City of Madrid are introduced here. They may be understood as partial "portrayals" of two monumental areas, the Prado-Recoletos Axis and Gran Via. The conceptual unit is established on the basis of two mixed considerations: on the one side, the possibilities of action in the context of new graphic media and the ancient purposes of drawing; on the other side, the relationship between research and dissemination in the field of urban cartography in a broader sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1544 Pedro de Guevara executed his plan to reform the defenses of Valencia. This is the first "reliable" cartographic representation of the city and constitutes a paradigmatic example of the so-called Transitional Fortification, but also involves the introduction of the new renaissance way of representing the city, in which the image acquires a strong will to objectivity, clearly different from the idealized graphical view of previous centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El Greco's painting View and Plan of Toledo and, especially, the outlined plan included in it is one of the first drawn floor plans of Spanish cities. Its accuracy and quality is only comparable to the military plans of the time and it raises the question about El Greco's training as a cartographer. The analysis of the plan, both as a part of the pictorial composition and also as a cartographic document by itself, opens up new hypothesis about his training as a cartographer and also about the assessment of this remarkable work of the artist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The studies on the construction of territory and landscape are closely related to the tangible and the intangible or living' Cultural Heritage. Through all of them the geographical area turns into a Cultural Heritage itself, composed by an ensemble of phenomena and processes, of landmarks and relationships, that configure its real memory. According to the motto 'knowing-analyzing-acting', these studies are essential and previous to achieve any intended work at every scale. In this process the set composed by cartography, photographs and drawings, views and paintings, plays an essential role together with oral and written testimonies. The Bay of Cadiz is proposed as the case study, due to its rich outstanding Cultural Heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article inquires about the role of empirical knowledge in the genesis of Geography in Spain in the late eighteenth century. To do so, it focuses on the analysis of a document written by the cartographer Juan Polo y Catalina titled "Discourse on the need to ascertain the productive surface of the states, work done with this purpose by all the powers of Europe, and means used to know it". This analysis raises the issue of image, as well as topics related to map-building such as the combination of theory and practice, the progressive impulse, the quest for productivity in the Spanish provinces and, significantly, the limitations and findings of this technical exercise in achieving accuracy as a key element of the pursuits of Geography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on manuscript and printed sources, this paper analyses the rise and decline of land surveying in New Spain, from 1500 to 1800. To do so, it describes four, closely related factors that affected colonial surveying: the ambiguity of the royal decrees intended to define land grants: a flawed system of weights and measures; the poor development of the surveying tool kit and techniques; and the predominance of empiricism in the daily practice of surveyors. Among these factors, the first three provided the contextual background for the fourth one: the surveying praxis. Thus, based on manuscripts such as the Geometría práctica y mecánica..., written by Joseph Sáenz de Escobar in the early eighteenth century, the paper documents some of the vicissitudes of surveying. It also describes how this subject became marginal and was gradually superseded by topography during the nineteenth century. It demonstrates that, notwithstanding the attempts to achieve greater accuracy, the under-development of colonial surveying accounts for the many contested surveys and faulty cartographic representations. It concludes that both the practical and theoretical development of surveying was the result of specific colonial conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]