El medio físico y los recursos naturales en el diseño de programas leader de la UE

Abstract

The LEADER II Program is a U.E. Iniciative created to support innovative actions in the rural world searching or local development. Along 1991-94 —years owning to the LEADER I Program, pattern for the new LEADER II Program— it was detected important problems to consider environmental condicionants in the evaluation of supportable proyects. This article shows a methodology developed in the Sierra Oeste (Madrid) LEADER II Program to incorporate environmental factors to the selection and evaluation of proyects. These factors constitutes one of the seven criterions —joint to the legal factors, the socioeconomic situation, the productive sector situtioin, the social opinion, the existence of quality or I + D programs and the own LEADER Sierra Oeste criterions— developed for this job. The fisic medium criterion evaluates the relation being between the proyect and the environment, either the resources needings of the proyects as the effects that its developed can produce. According to this criterion the proyects can be qualificated with 3 points —specially interesting—, 2 points —acceptables—, 1 point —indiferents—, 0 points —non acceptables— or -1 points —reajustables—. The article finish showing the thirteen proyects with a best qualification after apllied the seven critrions from the present methodology.