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BRAVO, Luis Carlos et al. Strategic Environmental Assessment: Proposal to Enhance the Application of Ecologic Ordinances: "Sea de Cortes Region" Case Study. Gest. polít. pública [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.1, pp.147-170. ISSN 1405-1079.

ln this paper the limitations to regional planning are exposed, especially regarding ecological ordinances since they need horizontal and vertical coordination among different government levels and several actors to better know, adapt and apply the law in their own competences. We propose the possible use of Strategic Environmental Assessment as a tool to motivate transversal coordination among these different agencies to formulate, apply, evaluate and monitor ecological and territorial ordinances. Besides, we express the need to motivate a government transversal coordination scheme to operate coastal lands and vertical coordination among them to attend all types of ecological ordinances (general, regional, local and marine). We took as an example the regional ecological ordinance and the regional environmental impact assessment applied to one of the most ambicious projects of Vicente Fox presidential period named "Nautic ladder of the Sea of Cortes, Mexico"

Palavras-chave : Mexican sea planning; Northwest of Mexico; proposals ecological matter; environmental impact; ecological ordinance; strategic environmental assessment.