The reception of the environment in the autonomous land legislation a vision through Law 4/2017, july 13, of the soil and of the protected natural spaces of the Canary Islands

Abstract

The term environment today embraces an extraordinarily broad and representative reality of some of the most important contemporary social conflicts facing our society. In the legal field, the regulation that emerged under the auspices of the environmental category has undergone extraordinary development in recent times, affecting with notable intensity on practically all sectors of the legal system. Urban planning has been particularly permeable to environmental penetration, a discipline that was born to order urban growth from a developmental perspective. In this way, the autonomous legislations that emerged under the exclusive competences in urban planning and territorial planning are undergoing profound transformations. This work accounts, in a vision through Law 4/2017, of July 13, on the Soil and Protected Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands, of the different dimensions with which environmental regulation currently appears in the Autonomous urban planning legislation, that is why we begin with an approach to the legal concept of the environment, trying to provide the keys on which its regulation and its tensions are based, to then analyze, under this prism, all its regulation, providing conclusions and proposals.