December 11 – International Mountain Day.

This year, International Mountain Day is celebrated under the motto: “Promoting mountain products to improve livelihoods.” The aim is to boost the local economies of mountain populations by marketing their limited products, whose main value lies in their excellent quality and […]

International Day for Disaster Reduction: “2015: Knowledge for life”

October 13: International Day for Disaster Reduction. “2015: Knowledge for life” Luis Fermín TURIEL PEREDO Geographer / Director of Integral Security For twenty-six years we have celebrated on this date the International Day for Disaster Reduction, when the United Nations General Assembly determined the need for […]

Housing and Land Observatory. Annual Bulletin 2012.

The GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF ARCHITECTURE, HOUSING AND LAND has published the 2012 annual bulletin of the Housing and Land Observatory of the Ministry of Public Works, offering on its first pages the most relevant data: The granting of licenses by city councils for the construction of new housing has continued to decline in recent years, […]

Rethinking Santander

RETHINKING SANTANDER El Diario Montañes, November 4, 2012 (Luis Fermín Turiel Peredo, president of the College of Geographers of Cantabria) The College of Geographers, in its objective of lending its collaboration to citizens in order to improve the public management of the territory with the search and definition of management models for the transformations […]

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