Integrating the environment in local strategic planning : Guidelines (Case of Morocco)

Hafsa Benbrahim,A Boukdir,M El Mabrouki

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20183702008

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Since 2010, an advanced regionalization project has been initiated by Morocco, which plans to consolidate the processes of decentralization and deconcentration by extending the powers of the regions and other local authorities. This project, institutionalized in the 2011 Constitution, defines the territorial organization of the Kingdom and reinforces decentralization according to a model of advanced regionalization. Through advanced regionalization, Morocco aims at integrated and sustainable development in economic, social, cultural and environmental terms, through the development of the potential and resources of each region. However, in order to honor this commitment of advanced regionalization, local authorities must be assisted in adopting a local strategic planning approach, allowing them to develop territorial plans for sustainable development in accordance with the national legal framework, specifically the Framework law 99-12, and international commitments in terms of environmental protection. This research deals with the issue of environmental governance in relation to the role and duties of local authorities. Thus, the main goal of our study is to present the guidelines to be followed by the local authorities to improve the quality of the environment integration process in the local strategic planning with the aim of putting it in a perspective of sustainable development.

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The role of territorial communities in the process of implementing sustainable development was affirmed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio (1992): «It is local communities that build, monitor the planning processes, set local environmental guidelines and regulations, and support the implementation of environmental policies at the national or sub-national level
Our research aims to highlight guidelines for integrating the environment into local strategic planning, which challenges the concept of environmental governance in relation to the role and duties of territorial communities
The principle of participation: it encourages the active participation of companies, civil society associations and the public in the process of developing and implementing plans for environmental protection and sustainable development.of participation

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The role of territorial communities in the process of implementing sustainable development was affirmed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio (1992): «It is local communities that build, monitor the planning processes, set local environmental guidelines and regulations, and support the implementation of environmental policies at the national or sub-national level. They play at the administrative level closest to the population, a key role in education, mobilization and taking into account public views for sustainable development» [1]. The integration of sustainable development requires a gradual and continuous learning and improvement process, under which sustainable development integrates, simultaneously and transversally, the economic, environmental and social dimensions into any development project, as well as their interrelations in order to find the best balance or the best possible compromise

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