Angel Maria Marinero Peral
General Director for Housing & Planning Policies
Regional Government of Castilla y Leon
Spain

Biography
Jobs
2011-2015 (current): General Director for Housing, Architecture & Planning Policies, Regional Government of Castilla y León.
2007-2011: General Director for Planning Policies, Regional Government of Castilla y León.
1994-2007: Director of the Regional Urban Planning Service, Regional Government of Castilla y León.
1990-1994: Planning official in the Regional Urban Planning Service, Regional Government of Castilla y León.

Degree
MSc. Architecture (Arch. Design, Arch Engineering & Urban Planning), University of Navarra, 1988

Publications & lectures
Codigo de Derecho Urbanistico (BOE, 2014)
Manual de Derecho Urbanístico de Castilla y Leon (Iustel, 2007)
Derecho Urbanistico de Castilla y Leon (La Ley, 2000, 2005 y 2009, coordinator)
> 40 papers / > 300 lectures on regional & urban planning, urban regeneration, housing policies & related issues.

Acknowledgments
The European Urban and Regional Planning Awards 2002, Award for the project: Land Planning Guidelines for Valladolid and its surrounding area
9th European Urban and Regional Planning Awards 2011-2012, Special Mention for the project: PRAU Program / Regional Urban Development Action Program

Abstract
Cross border SDI Cooperation Experience in Castilla y Leon

Co-Author: Alberto Gonzalez Monsalve, Director of Castilla y Leon Spatial Information Center, Regional Government of Castilla y Leon

Cross border cooperation concerning Spatial Data Infrastructures in the Spanish Region of Castilla y Leon started 1997. Back then the Regional Government devised a variety of cooperation strategies with the Portuguese Region Norte de Portugal.

One of those early projects, the "Terra Duero/Douro" was among the first initiatives aiming to develop a cross border GIS -then conceived as a basis for a long-sought strategic & coherent Cross Border Planning Guidelines.

Even as the current SDI developments and tools were not yet available, that project worked for both regions as a regional planning experimental lab. We got a common state-of-the-art Cross Border GIS, spanning along the whole Duero/Douro basin and focusing on riverine towns and cities.

Again in 2005 a cross border cooperation project received INTERREG III-A funding, now to develop a "Cross Border Observatory for devising and evaluating Sustainable Development & Regional Planning Strategies in the Duero/Douro basin" -only along the cross border area between Castilla y Leon and Norte de Portugal.

Thus we were able to profit from the "Terra Duero/Douro" Project experience and outcome in a variety of issues: updating the GIS to the new interoperability SDI requirements, using the Reference System ETRS89, devising Map Web Services, refining a Spatial Indicators System?

Lately, the "Cross border Cooperation for Duero-Douro Basin Coherent Territorial Management (SITET Duero-Douro)" Project was included in the POCTEP Program. This EU Program was developed in 2009-10, aiming for a whole comprehensive geographical data gathering, compilation and processing, in order to get it into the common Cross border Spatial Data Infrastructure.