出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The delimitation of rural areas has traditionally been a topic of considerable scientific interest. The contrasts between urban and rural areas, which are easily distinguishable both in the landscape and in their social and economic characteristics, have raised the interest to define a limit that has not always been easily detectable. Quantitative and qualitative criteria, and even a mixture of both, have been used to label rural and urban territory, sometimes using terminology that shows more of the gradation between the two concepts rather than their dichotomy. International agencies have not been oblivious to this concern, and have proposed methodologies for cataloging these areas and the people in them according to criteria of rurality. Furthermore, the «territorial approach» is one of the bases of the Rural Development Programs that have been applied in the European Union over the last twenty five years, which has given a new impulse to the research in this field.
关键词：rurality;delimitation;rural development programs;ruralidad;delimitación rural;programas de desarrollo rural;ruralité;délimitation rurale;programmes de développement rural
