Urban resilience, land-use planning and environmental protection in Cuba: a legal perspective

Abstract

In order to support the need for the systematization of the norms related to land use planning and environmental protection in Cuba towards a better application of the postulates of urban resilience, this article is one of the results of the project associated with the National Program for Local Development in Cuba coordinated by the author: "The right to the city and its dimensions for local development in Las Tunas". Goal 11 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, aimed at achieving more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and human settlements, is taken as a reference. Based on this, it addresses the implications of urban resilience, given the challenges that cities face today to protect their inhabitants, their assets and the maintenance of functionality in the face of crises that may arise, especially due to the occurrence of natural and human phenomena and disasters, aspects that illustrate how in Cuba this is a relevant issue that occupies the current analysis of the way in which territories should be organized in the present and in the future, without leaving aside environmental protection, are discussed. It is emphasized how from the point of view offered by the Law, this is an issue that still does not find sufficient legal support and how the actions carried out with respect to urban resilience, respond fundamentally to other social sciences.