Enrique Moltó Mantero

Recursos de agua no convencionales en España: estado de la cuestión, 2010

Water not conventional resources have experienced a notable development during the first decade of the present century. The fulfillment of European Directive 91/271 of urban waste water treatment and the development of the Programa AGUA have been decisive for the impulse of the water purification and water desalation processes in Spain. On the contrary, the reutilization of residual polished waters, though it (he, she) possesses (relies on) significant performances (agriculture, recreative uses), it continues being a subject dependent on water planning in our country.

La funcionalidad de los medios rurales en las sociedades urbanas

Rural areas in development countries have undergone remarkable changes on functions held by them since 1950. As opposed to areas where rural activities and rural way of life were dominated, in the last few decades, it is noticed a gradual appearance of new uses found on their tertiaritation. Unification of behaviour rules and diffusion of urban way of life make difficult to separate urban from rural society. This article reflects on different processes (the depopulation of the countryside, rural development policies, mass media, etc.) that have taken part in these changes and have favoured the unification of ways of life between the country and the city. Nevertheless, it is necessary to insist that

Desarrollo local, geografía y análisis territorial integrado : algunos ejemplos aplicados

The changes produced in the current economic, social and political position turn into a land reorganization at every scale. Facing this world-wide extension process, it is generated a remarkable enlargement of researches that have to do with local scale. The land, understood as the area of relationships and interdependences among different factors, is one of the elements that strengthen and consolidate Geography’s significance and function. The analysis of ecological and socio-economic structure is essential in every proceeding linked to development. In these studies, ought to prevail the integrated condition, nevertheless, studies where approaches relating to a particular sector or ones resulted of a simple addition of elements are very common.

Las aguas pluviales y de tormenta: del abandono de un recurso híbrido con finalidad agrícola a su implantación como recurso no convencional en ámbitos urbanos

espanolLas aguas de turbias desempenaron un papel fundamental en los paisajes agrarios tradicionales del sureste peninsular. En ellos, la escasez de precipitaciones unido a su torrencialidad, obligo a la adopcion de una sistematizacion de laderas y barrancos para aprovechar al maximo los caudales circulantes asociados a precipitaciones de cierta intensidad. Estos sistemas, que van a entrar en un proceso de abandono y desarticulacion a partir de mediados del siglo XX, han sido objeto de un interes creciente vinculado a cuestiones ambientales y patrimoniales. A estas se une recientemente su posible utilizacion como recursos no convencionales asociados a las politicas de sostenibilidad ambiental y de adecuacion de la calidad de las aguas segun su uso (fit for purpose). El objetivo de este articulo es examinar, teniendo en cuenta el significado patrimonial y ambiental que estos recursos de agua desempenaron en las sociedades agrarias tradicionales, su recuperacion, desde el punto de vista de iniciativas a escala local y de sostenibilidad ambiental. Para ello se analizan las actuaciones llevadas a cabo en ambitos como los municipios litorales de la provincia de Alicante y el area metropolitana de Cataluna. EnglishStormwater played a fundamental role in the traditional agricultural landscapes of Southeastern Spain. Relatively rare but violent outbursts of precipitation forced traditional agriculture to build a sophisticated system of slope and ravine management to take advantage of flows associated with intense rainfall. These systems, which will be entering a process of abandonment and disbandment from the middle of the 20th century onwards, have been the subject of growing interest linked to environmental and landscape conservation issues. On the other hand, rainwater flows also regain their importance in urban areas as local, alternative resources able to provide for the needs of certain uses such as garden irrigation after the concept of fit for purpose. The aim of this paper is to examine, initiatives aiming at the recovery of rainwater flows under the same philosophy of traditional agrarian societies but this time directed to the urban sphere. To this effect we will present cases in the coastal municipalities of the province of Alicante and the metropolitan area of Barcelona where rainwater and other alternative water flows are increasingly used.

La agricultura en la montaña de Alicante: situación actual y potencial futuro

The diversifying proceedings of economic activities on the rural areas show a remarkable guidance with activities connected with rural tourism. Nevertheless, the development of rural activities by the improvement of traditional crops and the spreading of new ones, the introduction of new crop methods and the incomes generated by having more than one job can help to keep them. These enterprises have to defend the originality of these products and its quality in charge of its quantity. Supporting these farming activities allow, moreover, the preservation of landscapes, whose giving up produce noteworthy problems on the environment. The issue is to transform the «octward goods» that offer these anthropogenic landscapes in a «market goog».

Grandes nevadas y percepción de las mismas en Alcoy

Snow precipitations are not an unusual phenomena in Alcoy Valley, but they are not either absolutely routinely. There are snowfalls over the highest land in...