The concern for preserving environmental quality, a growing preoccupation worldwide, includes a distinctly spatial dimension among its multiple facets. Maintaining ecological balances depends largely on various modes of space occupation and their adequacy to specific environmental conditions. Neither the legal regime of land control, nor urban policy or property development, nor housing design or architectural style, are indifferent to the harmonious or chaotic shaping of the urban and rural environment where populations establish their living framework. The question of space management from an environmental protection perspective is therefore of considerable importance. The relationship between land status and environmental protection has seemingly never been studied in depth in Morocco, despite its critical implications for coastal ecosystems caught between terrestrial and marine pressures.
Mohamed Ali Mekouar (Sat,) studied this question.