Crítica de la exclusión del aprovechamiento de recursos naturales en los parques nacionales españoles

Resumo

The authors consider that it is difficult to understand that the ideology behind the regulation of economic activities involving the use of renewable natural resources in Spanish National Parks has not changed after the first National Parks were established in 1918. However the first ones were emblematic but very little pieces of territory, while now the Spanish National Parks occupy 284.104 ha, where multiple extractive activities are held, against the ideological principles of the Spanish regulation of these protected areas. The main aim of this study is to discuss critically that ideology, which considers that all the human extractive economic activities in the National Parks must be forbidden. The authors propose the opposite approach, all the traditional economic activities of extraction of revewable natural resources should be maintained, except those that can generate irreversibilities. This discussion is relevant because changes in the regulation of National Parks are underway in Spain and, besides, two National Parks are in the process to be established: Guadarrama, near Madrid, and Monfragüe, in Extremadura.