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Spatial planning, as a regional and subregional public policy, establishes a territorial integral vision implemented through spatial plans, aimed at achieving a balanced and sustainable spatial development and improving quality of life. To enhance the effectiveness of these plans, evaluation and monitoring are needed. This paper critically analyses the monitoring and evaluation framework for spatial plans in Spain. Based on extensive literature, legislative, and document review, as well as in-depth interviews with key stakeholders, the paper describes the legal provisions of spatial plans and how they work in practice. One of the main conclusions is that, although many laws and spatial plans have been adopted in Spain, they do not include sufficient details and provisions regarding basic monitoring and evaluation procedures. This practice is in fact highly dependent on the political will of regional governments. The main progress on monitoring and evaluation of spatial plans is achieved thanks to the enforcement of environmental legislation. Finally, it is suggested that the role of specific bodies, public participation, territorial observatories, and indicator systems should be strengthened as key elements of the evaluation and monitoring procedures for spatial planning.

Este trabajo está orientado a reconocer la importancia del uso de los indicadores territoriales en las políticas públicas en la actualidad. En concreto, se trata de verificar el grado de implementación de los sistemas de indicadores como herramientas para retroalimentar positivamente los nuevos planes de ordenación del territorio en España, incidiendo, de manera especial, en los apartados de la planificación dedicados al seguimiento, evaluación y control de dichos planes. Con ese objetivo se ha analizado la normativa vigente y los planes de ordenación del territorio andaluces. ; This paper is intended to recognize the importance of using spatial indicators in public policy today. Specifically, it seeks to verify the degree of implementation of indicator systems as tools for positive feedback on the spatial plans in Spain, focusing, in the sections devoted to monitoring, evaluation and control of plans. With this aim we have analyzed the existing legislation on the matter and Andalusian's spatial plans.

Este trabajo está orientado a reconocer la importancia del uso de los indicadores territoriales en las políticas públicas en la actualidad. En concreto, se trata de verificar el grado de implementación de los sistemas de indicadores como herramientas para retroalimentar positivamente los nuevos planes de ordenación del territorio en España, incidiendo, de manera especial, en los apartados de la planificación dedicados al seguimiento, evaluación y control de dichos planes. Con ese objetivo se ha analizado la normativa vigente y los planes de ordenación del territorio andaluces. ; This paper is intended to recognize the importance of using spatial indicators in public policy today. Specifically, it seeks to verify the degree of implementation of indicator systems as tools for positive feedback on the spatial plans in Spain, focusing, in the sections devoted to monitoring, evaluation and control of plans. With this aim we have analyzed the existing legislation on the matter and Andalusian's spatial plans.

Los conceptos de cohesión, diversidad y desarrollo territorial han ido ganando progresiva importancia durante los últimos años en el debate sobre las políticas públicas a aplicar sobre el territorio, en especial en el seno de la Unión Europea. Este artículo plantea una clarificación terminológica de los mismos y una aproximación metodológica a su medición, centrándose en la experiencia desarrollada con los Informes de Desarrollo Territorial de Andalucía. ; The concepts of cohesion, diversity and spatial development have gained increasing importance in the debate on public policies in recent years, in particular within the European Union context. This article raises a terminological clarification of these concepts, as well as a methodological approach to its measurement, focusing on the experience gained with the Spatial Development Reports of Andalusia (Spain).

In the last few years, parallel evolutionary processes in the socio-political, governmental and technological arenas have been providing new pathways for the collaborative generation, coordination and distribution of polycentric information. From a technological perspective, the proliferation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has boosted the availability of information about our planet, along with its storage, processing and dissemination capabilities. The Worldwide Web and satellite and electronic sensors combined with smart phone technologies have also opened new means for social, political and scientific innovation. From a socio-political standpoint, the implementation of policies that encourage the reutilisation of data and protect the right to information of interested parties, together with growing social demands for transparency, have resulted in an increasing number of governments drawing strategies to open up public data. In this context, this paper addresses two main topics that we deem will be key drivers for improved water governance in the near future. First, it discusses new practices of collaborative and distributed generation and disclosure of information for water governance, and the resulting challenges and opportunities afforded by the use of ICTs. Second, it looks at the interplay between the uptake of ICTs and institutional frameworks, social dynamics and technological structures within which they operate to understand the extent to which ICTs affect decision-making processes and contribute to creating alternative spaces for the production of common services or alternative discourses. Despite the advances in open data policies, findings suggest that there remain significant challenges to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by ICTs, mostly derived from the structural conditions of existing models of decision-making, and information generation and management. It seems that the potentialities of ICTs as transformative tools are conditioned by the regeneration of the context within which decisions are made, that is, the democratic process itself.