Acceso usuarios
Alicante, España
El litoral de Alicante ha sufrido importantes transformaciones territoriales desde los años setenta del pasado siglo, y especialmente, con el último boom inmobiliario. Algunas de las consecuencias ha sido el incremento del consumo de determinados recursos como es el agua. A pesar de ello, se ha constatado una reducción del gasto de agua para usos urbano-turísticos en los últimos años. El objetivo de esta investigación es conocer y analizar cuáles son las causas que han provocado el cambio de esta tendencia. Algunas de las conclusiones extraídas es que no sólo hay un factor que ha provocado esa reducción, sino un conjunto de causas múltiples e interrelacionadas.
Since the late 1990s and particularly at the start of the 21st century, considerable research has highlighted the consequences of multiple urban developments in different areas following patterns of low residential density in Europe. A report drafted by the European Environment Agency in 2009 forecast that between 1995 and 2025 the urbanised land area would increase from 55% to 73% of total land area in Europe. This urban-residential expansion has often been located along coastal areas, for example in Ireland, Portugal and above all in the Spanish Mediterranean. In the Spanish Mediterranean alone, in the period 1992-2000, over one million two hundred thousand new dwellings were built, increasing by close to five million more between 2001 and 2011, representing an increase of 25% in housing numbers. In the case of the province of Alicante (Spain), this territory between 1997 and 2008, ranked third in Spain in housing units built (345,410), after Madrid and Barcelona and ahead of provinces with larger populations such as Valencia or Málaga.
