La Urban Management in Salta Province, Argentina

Towards an integrated territorial management system based on permanent improvement programs and critical indicators

Abstract

During the last decade, multiple territorial planning instruments have been developed at a provincial, metropolitan and municipal scale in the Province of Salta (NW Argentina). According to the outputs of the investigation, most of these instruments have not been reflected in concrete and tangible territorial impacts. On the contrary, conflicts related to urban and territorial unsustainability have intensified and deepened, especially in the geographical scope where the Project is focused, the Lerma Valley Metropolitan Area.

Considering that Institutional capacity weaknesses of public agencies responsible for territorial management have been identified as the root cause of this situation, the study includes propositional contents oriented towards the creation of an Integrated Territorial Management System, based on continuous improvement programs and the use of Key Performance Indicators, which may facilitate the materialization of the Sustainable Territorial Model planned in the project.