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Title: RURALITY INDEX: A STATE-OF-THE-ART NETWORK VIEW
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Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: The United Nations (2009) declared that the year of 2007 was the first time in human history when the majority of the world’s human population was not living in rural areas. That being said, there is currently no official definition of the term “rural”. Consequently, the discourses in academics and politics about this theme are controversial. Some approaches have sought to define “rural” in either descriptive or socio-cultural terms, while others believe there are no differences between rural and urban. In spite of this, there are authors trying to create a rurality index, which contributes to delineate “rural” in the literature. Several authors have taken part in this approach, generating a web of studies in which they applied rurality indexes to different objectives, such as aiding public policies. With the objective of better understanding the peculiarities and interactions among these authors and indices, this chapter seeks to build a network concerned with this line of research. In these studies, the primary tendency was the definition of “rural” as a lifestyle. In this investigation, we created a network by using the social network methodology. The results demonstrated the centrality around Cloke (1986; 1977) and his seminal role. The outcomes also showed low modularity and density in the network, which suggests that the discussion is still at an elementary level and that there is no wide exchange of ideas between authors concerned with rurality indexes.
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Authors: Braga, Gustavo, B; Remoaldo, Paula, C; Fiúza, Ana Louise, C
Publisher: Universidade do Minho
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Population Data Science
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