Cuarenta años de leyes de costas en España (1969-2009)

Abstract

Spanish coastal law 22/1988, which overcomes already twenty years of force, was proposed as the definitive instrument that would allow to recover these spaces for the civil use, eliminating the property deprived in the public domain and guaranteeing its recovery. Nevertheless, passed two decades and four from the entry into force of the coastal law from 1969, the balance is not positive. Spain continues suffering an indiscriminate occupation of his coasts, specially in the Mediterranean front, which reveals the lack of a real integrated coastal policy. It is operated of punctual form on these places, while the technical and juridical complexity of the application of the law has generated the appearance of many technical, social and economic problems, linked to the demarcation, expropriations and demolitions announced. This work tries to offer a global perspective of the coastal regulation in Spain, a critical analysis "from the geography" of the juridical text and a balance of the consequences of these forty years of application.