Compensación ecológica en la evaluación de impacto ambiental en españaSituación y propuestas de acción
- Villarroya Ballarín, Ana
- Jordi Puig Baguer Doktorvater/Doktormutter
Universität der Verteidigung: Universidad de Navarra
Fecha de defensa: 16 von Juni von 2012
- Santiago González Alonso Präsident/in
- Juan José Pons Izquierdo Sekretär/in
- Urban Emanuelsson Vocal
- Juan Bald Garmendia Vocal
- Pedro Cifuentes Vega Vocal
Art: Dissertation
Zusammenfassung
This article presents an environmental impact assessment (EIA) controversial case, which was finally settled by the passing of a sentence. The sentence enforced a payment to compensate for the economic damage caused to a fish farm through local environmental changes in Urola river estuary, located in the Basque Country. The damage was allegedly caused by a breakwater extension built at the mouth of an estuary nearby the farm, and linked to a recreation port project located within the estuary. While the sentence settled the meaning of compensation from an economic perspective, it raised by contrast some questions on the difficulty of undertaking ecological compensation within EIA practice, using of this particular case. Maybe these difficulties account for the lack of compensation in coastal development projects, which we have observed in a variety of cases in Spain, particularly for coastal development projects.