The rural in dispute: Discourses of rurality in the Pyrenees

Geoforum

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 602-612

  López i Gelats, Feliu ^a   Tàbara, J David ^b   Bartolomé, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Counter urbanisation; Discourses; Mountains; Q methodology; Rural change; Tertiarisation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC REFORM; ENDOGENOUS GROWTH; MOUNTAIN REGION; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL SOCIETY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; PALLARS SOBIRA; PYRENEES; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 67649967513     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.04.008     Document Type: Article

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