ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the instruments: the land-use/resources matrix (LURM) illustrating in particular its possible use in evaluation and planning processes. It suggests that the availability and use of such an instrument seem essential prerequisites for correct planning, and a means to avoid possible and dangerous errors of evaluation. The territory balance may be conceived as a transformation of a territory supply vector in a territory use vector. The ‘physical’ balance of the territory, extrapolated from the LURM in the ways, may give rise to an ‘economic’ balance of the territory if we assign a monetary price/value to its physical portions. The idea of a LURM must naturally be accompanied by a series of concrete decisions that have to highlight, on the one hand, the feasibility of construction and, on the other, the feasibility of utilisation. The LURM, in fact, must be constructed for an appropriate territorial unit of reference, if it is going to have any validity.
