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Article

A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain

by
Vasco Barbosa
1,2,3,*,
Inés Santé-Riveira
4,
Rafael Crecente-Maseda
4,
Carlos Díaz Redondo
5,
Juan Porta Trinidad
6,
Jorge Parapar López
6,
Ramón Doallo Biempica
6 and
José Ambrósio Ferreira Neto
7
1
Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de La Sabana, Chía 140013, Colombia
2
Prometheus, Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, Praça Gen. Barbosa 44, 4900-347 Viana do Castelo, Portugal
3
Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2000-2199, South Africa
4
Department of Agroforestry Engineering, University of Santiago de Compostela, LaboraTe, 27002 Lugo, Spain
5
Agency for Rural Development of the Xunta de Galicia (AGADER), Lugar da Barcia, 56. Laraño, 15897 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
6
Computer Architecture Group, Universidade da Coruña, CITIC, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
7
Department of Rural Economics, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa 36570-900, Brazil
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Land 2022, 11(6), 800; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060800
Submission received: 20 April 2022 / Revised: 16 May 2022 / Accepted: 23 May 2022 / Published: 28 May 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Optimisation)
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Abstract

Rural settlements (RS) are a reality of rural areas. They consist of cluster of buildings and ways of life mainly associated with activities related to agriculture. As economic policies applied in rural development have evolved, the physical delimitation of rural areas has become more important because such areas are recipients of financial support, which depends on an area’s characteristics. Thus, it is necessary to formulate a new spatial approach for RS delimitation. The objective of this study is to define spatial criteria for identification and delimitation of the RS to recognize the morphological context of each RS. With respect to methodology, RS in the community of Galicia, Northwestern Spain were studied, and factors for spatial characterization were defined according to experts’ evaluations. Subsequently, spatial restrictions and conditions were identified for the delimitation of boundaries. The criteria that this research proposes reveal numerically adjustable factors that can recognize and interpret the morphological characteristics of each RS, which is also evidenced by the results of RS delimitations. It can be concluded that the numerically defined criteria associated with a spatial operation allow the adaptation to the morphological characteristics of any RS, as well as spatial equity by recognizing the differentiation of building structures and land uses of each RS, rather unlike the criteria defined by the law.
Keywords: rural planning; rural settlements; physical delimitation rural planning; rural settlements; physical delimitation

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Barbosa, V.; Santé-Riveira, I.; Crecente-Maseda, R.; Redondo, C.D.; Trinidad, J.P.; López, J.P.; Biempica, R.D.; Ferreira Neto, J.A. A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain. Land 2022, 11, 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060800

AMA Style

Barbosa V, Santé-Riveira I, Crecente-Maseda R, Redondo CD, Trinidad JP, López JP, Biempica RD, Ferreira Neto JA. A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain. Land. 2022; 11(6):800. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060800

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Barbosa, Vasco, Inés Santé-Riveira, Rafael Crecente-Maseda, Carlos Díaz Redondo, Juan Porta Trinidad, Jorge Parapar López, Ramón Doallo Biempica, and José Ambrósio Ferreira Neto. 2022. "A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain" Land 11, no. 6: 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060800

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Barbosa, V., Santé-Riveira, I., Crecente-Maseda, R., Redondo, C. D., Trinidad, J. P., López, J. P., Biempica, R. D., & Ferreira Neto, J. A. (2022). A New Spatial Criteria Method to Delimit Rural Settlements towards Boundaries Equity: Land Use Optimization for Decision Making in Galicia, NW Spain. Land, 11(6), 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11060800

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