 Urban-rural interactions and their territorial disparitiesCarolina Perpiña Castillo (),
Ine Vandecasteele (),
Jean Philippe Aurambout (),
Sjoerdje van Heerden (),
Ricardo Ribeiro Barranco (),
Claudio Bosco,
Christiaan Jacobs (),
Irune Martínez-Ruiz,
Javier Esparcia,
Martina Pertoldi (),
Mert Kompil (),
Carlotta Fioretti (),
Daniela Ghio,
Fabrizio Natale,
Jan Loeschner,
Filipe Batista E Silva () and
Carlo Lavalle ()
No JRC129206, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre Abstract: Urban areas are usually considered the main centres of economic activity with a high population concentration, good infrastructure, service provision offering employment, social services, innovation and recreational opportunities that attract people to live there . However, cities are also heavily dependent on peri-urban and rural areas, especially for food production and basic products, management of natural resources, protection of natural landscape, as well as recreation and tourism. Mutual inter-dependencies exist over the continuum between urban, peri-urban and rural areas, conceptually described as ‘linkages’ or ‘flows’. These can be associated to people, goods and public services or environmental flows. Under the lens of the degree of urbanisation, this policy brief analyses territorial discrepancies and flows between types of settlements across several dimensions such accessibility of essential services and internet connection, housing market, tourism capacity, as well as natural resources and population dynamics. Incorporating this territorial perspective, strategic development policies have gained momentum with a tendency of creating large and strong functional regions with a focus on the enhancement and the intensification of urban-rural interactions that can help to reduce inequalities, ensure the well-being of citizens and the development of balanced and sustainable territories. Keywords: urban; rural; peri-urban; population; migration; housing; tourism; LUISA; land flows; policy strategies; functional areas (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ipt:iptwpa:jrc129206 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre Contact information at EDIRC. |
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