The Department of Environment submitted a proposal to the full City Council to be held on Thursday 25 June to claim the role of local governments in the protection and management of environmental and landscape heritage for its ability to preserve the ways of living in harmony and for their sensitivity and interest in maintaining the best legacy social, cultural and sustainable economic growth to the next generation.
Also, through this proposal claim the National Government the implementation of legislation developed by the European Landscape Convention with a unitary character and give local authorities the means to meet the objectives of landscape quality, awareness its value and processing, training of specialists and development of multidisciplinary programs for the protection, management and landscape management.
The Councillor for Environment, Trini Cayuela, recalled that last June 5 was held on World Environment Day and this celebration coincides this year with special circumstances in the local protest, as "the year 2009 has special significance for local authorities because it offers a balance of light and dark after 30 years of democratic government. "
In this way, highlighted the tremendous effort made by local councils in the years to adapt to modernity and the provision of quality services, while expressing great concern existing "how to face the future in a time of financial asphyxiation and resource depletion. "
Therefore, emphasized that "now more than ever, calls for adequate funding, adequate and proportionate to the level of provision of services by Local Authorities, and at the same time you ask a comparable skills and comparable to the management capacity of other administrations. "
He explained that "the Spanish public authorities are obliged therefore to devise methods of landscape evaluation, including the elements of citizen participation, such as the dissemination of information on the landscape heritage, awareness of the value of landscapes and its cultural significance, ecological, structural and economic evaluation of the quality of the countryside and the detection of changes and developments of it. "
