Aménagement et espace: Comment et pourquoi définir un espace rural ?

A. Platier and J. Madec

Économie rurale, 1977, vol. 119

Abstract: How can one characterise "country" in comparion with built up aeras and why should it be defined ? Research into intercommunal relations and the criteria of "rurality" is an attempt to answer these questions. A survey who carried out of each of the 37 000 French "communes" with less than 20 000 inhabitants close to the main towns, based on a questionnaire of 880 questions. This enabled a "data bank" to be set up which is at the disposal of the planning specialists. This survey challenges the use of the demographic criterion alone as a definition of the country. The research mentioned is on the contray based on an analysis with several criteria. The factors taken into account are qualitative rather than quantitative and concern phenomena related not only to the economic activity but also to the various aspects of the life of the people in the area. A typology of the communes and of the degress of "rurality" is thus set up.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1977
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