%0 Journal Article %T Ordenaci¨®n del territorio en Venezuela: incoherencias y contradicciones actuales %A Salas Bourgoin %A Mar¨ªa Andreina %J Cuadernos del Cendes %D 2011 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X land-use planning in venezuela represents a public policy and administrative practice presently weakened by a set of problems whose solution is one of the keys for development at the national level. this becomes evident when carefully comparing the £¿must be£¿ in this context, set down in laws and management instruments, with the £¿is£¿ or current situation. how to support such a statement? with the evidences that show that the decisions made and the actions implemented are inconsistent with that £¿must be£¿. consequently, this paper focuses on the search for those evidences and on demonstrating that the venezuelan land-use planning is currently marked by incoherence and contradiction. %K land-use planning %K national policies %K public management %K incoherence %K contradiction. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1012-25082011000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en