| Catalan | English |
| desenvolupament i planificació urbanes | urban planning and development The activity or process of preparing for the future arrangement and condition of an urban center, particularly the development of its physical lay-out, which would include the construction, reconstruction, conversion, alteration or enlargement of buildings and other structures, and the extension or use of undeveloped land |
| gestió i planificació del territori | land management and planning Operations for preparing and controlling the implementation of plans for organizing human activities on land |
| llei de planificació | planning law A binding rule or body of rules prescribed by a government to organize, designate and regulate land use within its domain through zoning laws, subdivision regulations, rent and sign controls, growth management and other measures designed to protect human health and ecological integrity |
| mesures de planificació | planning measure A procedure or course of action taken to design, organize or prepare for the future |
| permís de planificació | planning permission An authorization, license or equivalent control document issued by a government agency that approves a step by step method and process of defining, developing and outlining various possible courses of action to meet existing or future needs, goals and objectives |
| planificació agrícola | agricultural planning The development of plans and measures to achieve greater and more efficient output from agriculture; a sound agricultural policy should be able to reconcile three basic needs: the production of food and agricultural products, the protection of the environment and the maintenance of the socio-economic structure of rural areas |
| planificació ambiental | environmental planning The identification of desirable objectives for the physical environment, including social and economic objectives, and the creation of administrative procedures and programmes to meet those objectives |
| planificació de construcció | building planning The activity of designing, organizing or preparing for future construction or reconstruction of edifices and facilities |
| planificació de costos mínims | minimal cost planning The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate the production of goods or services at an output that would require the lowest possible expenditure of money, time or labor |
| planificació de l'ús de terres | land use planning The interdisciplinary process of evaluating, organising, and controlling the present and the future development and use of lands and their resources in terms of their suitability on sustained yield basis. Includes an overall ecological evaluation in terms of specific kinds of uses as well as evaluations of social, economic, and physical contexts to the land concerned |
| planificació de polítiques | policy planning The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate any course of action that may be adopted and pursued by government, business or some other organization |
| planificació de ruta | route planning The activity of designing, organizing or preparing for the construction of boulevards, turnpikes, highways and other roads |
| planificació del desenvolupament | development planning The act or process of formulating a course of action that promotes the economic advancement of a region or people, particularly in countries known to have low levels of economic productivity and technological sophistication |
| planificació del transport | transport planning A programme of action to provide for present and future demands for movement of people and goods. Such a programme is preceded by a transport study and necessarily includes consideration of the various modes of transport |
| planificació econòmica | economic planning An economy in which prices, incomes etc. are determined centrally by government rather than through the operation of the free market, and in which industrial production is governed by an overall national plan |
| planificació educativa | educational planning The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate the training, instruction or study that leads to the acquisition of skills or knowledge, or the development of reasoning and judgment |
| planificació familiar | family planning The control of the number of children in a family and of the intervals between them, especially by the use of contraceptives |
| planificació física | physical planning A form of urban land use planning which attempts to achieve an optimal spatial coordination of different human activities for the enhancement of the quality of life |
| planificació i gestió rural | rural management and planning The activity or process of overseeing and preparing for the future physical arrangement and condition of any agricultural or pastoral area, which may involve protecting and developing natural and human resources that affect an area's economic vitality |
| planificació industrial | industrial planning The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate the manufacturing, producing and processing of goods or merchandise |
| planificació nacional | national planning The step by step method and process of defining, developing and outlining various possible courses of actions to meet existing or future needs, goals and objectives for a country or a large body of people associated with a particular territory, often sharing similar ethnic backgrounds, customs and language |
| planificació paisatgística | landscape planning The aspect of the land use planning process that deals with physical, biological, aesthetic, cultural, and historical values and with the relationships and planning between these values, land uses, and the environment |
| planificació per a situacions d'urgència ambiental | environmental contingency planning The production of an organized, programmatic and coordinated course of action to be followed in the case of some accident, disaster or occurrence threatening an ecosystem and the human health or natural resources within it |
| planificació regional | regional planning The step by step method and process of defining, developing and outlining various possible courses of actions to meet existing or future needs, goals and objectives for a designated area or an administrative division of a city, county or larger geographical area |
| planificació urbana | urban planning The activity of designing, organizing or preparing for the future lay-out and condition of a city or town |
| sistema de planificació-programació-pressupost | Planning-Programming-Budgeting System A system to achieve long-term goals or objectives by means of analysis and evaluation of the alternatives. PPB is designed to solve problems by finding the most effective and most efficient solution on the basis of objective criteria |
