Manuel Borobio Sanchiz
Director and Chief Executive
Territorial Studies Institute
Spain

Biography
Manuel Borobio Sanchiz is Architect by the ETSAUN (1998) with a Master in Urban Planning by the INAP, (2005) and a Master MArch II by the ETSAC (2009). PhD on course. Member of Architects without Borders and The Association of Sustainability and Architecture among others.Expert in territorial analysis and GIS. In his recent career stands out his work as General Director of Sustainability and Landscape of the Xunta de Galicia, from where he elaborated the Galicia Spatial Planning Guidelines (2011) and codirected the Galicia Coastal Plan (2011), which was rewarded in 2012 by the United Nations as Good Practice and obtained the Prize of the XII Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. Author of Galicia Landscape Strategy (2012) selected as National Good Practice in 2014 by the Spanish Habitat Commitee. At this moment, he is the Director of the Insitute of Territorial Studies of Galicia and editor of the collection ?Paisaxe Galega?, activity he combines with teaching and researching as Assistant Professor at INAP and Associate Professor at Santiago de Compostela University and Associate Professor of the Projects and Urban planning Department at ETSAC at A Coru?a University since 2008.

Abstract
Harmonized data for decision-making

Co-Authors:
Alfredo Fernandez Rios, Technical Director of Territorial Studies Institute
Manuel Gallego Priego, Responsible for the management of geographic information in Territorial Studies Institute

The administrative cross-borders limits between Galicia (Spain) and North region of Portugal contribute to the growthof differentiated political and social development models and dynamics, hence contributing to the definition of heterogeneous realities particularly in rural areas, in spite of the proximity of cultural identities and common historical past. These differences limit the objectives and potential results of supranational projects. The spatial data infrastructure facilitate the territorial shift towards a joint social, economic and environmental promotion, concurrently permitting proper land use planning and natural resources management.

The goals and objectives of SDIs can be associatedwith a wide variety of contexts, including supporting social and economic growth,decision-making, formulating public polices for multiple areas,emergency management, disaster relief, improvements to the exercise of citizenship,entertainment, etc.

The use of a monitoring system that is based on measurement, by means of indicators, as a tool to help to assess the way that as society are evolving, it is key to control the effects on these variables and, on the other hand, check the fulfilment of the general and specific objectives for each of these variables and therefore, the effectiveness of a sustainability strategy.

In Galicia,the Territorial Studies Institute (IET) is definingand management those indicators that can provide useful data and information with regard to the assessment of the evolution of ecosystems.

Indicators of territorial sustainability, so called in the Monitoring of implemented sustainability in Galicia plan, try to represent reality the perspective of objects of the territorial model defined in the instruments of regional planning. These indicators are part of a system that aspires to objectivity, raised from the harshness from the data available, as well as the ability to obtain them and manage them. However, the monitoring of territorial sustainability requires going beyond the compilation of data and calculations, complex they may be, must address the monitoring of trends and processes for the management of decision-making.To build these indicators, we need a reliable, homogeneous and documented data.