Special Issue "Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Social, Environmental and Cultural Dimensions"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Angel Paniagua Mazorra
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Guest Editor
CSIC Center for Human and Social Sciences, 28037 Madrid, Spain
Interests: rural geography; social geography; political geography

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The geographical debate on the processes of transformation of rural areas has considerable continuity and permanently generates new research issues in the global North and in the global South. This debate maintains large processes or axes of transformation that have multiple spatial disparities.

The geographical debate is multidimensional and supports various perspectives:

1. Sociocultural, which relates to the dynamics of change in communities, the emergency processes of new social groups, the renewed role of women or the new geographical identities of the countryside or rurality;

2. The new environmental perspective encompasses from the great geographical debates associated with political ecology in the global South, the unequal integration of agri-environmental policies or the environmental redefinition of rural areas by Western populations;

3. From the perspective of political geography, rural areas now have a renewed symbolic value in national identity and politics, which is expressed in the changing position of the rural core and peripherical areas.

This Special Issue supports quality research from a mainly geographical perspective that integrates multiple dimensions into a regional or local area or, on the other hand, also encourages research associated with one of the three dimensions: sociocultural, environmental or political.

Dr. Angel Paniagua Mazorra
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainability
  • rural geography
  • geographical dimensions of rural change
  • theory and applied research

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Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2059; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042059 - 14 Feb 2021
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Rural differentiation processes have formed the backbone of rural studies. Owing to the strength of rural–urban and local–global relationships, the theoretical approaches to rural restructuring in the Anglo-Saxon world and new rurality in Latin America only have a limited capacity to explain contemporary [...] Read more.
Rural differentiation processes have formed the backbone of rural studies. Owing to the strength of rural–urban and local–global relationships, the theoretical approaches to rural restructuring in the Anglo-Saxon world and new rurality in Latin America only have a limited capacity to explain contemporary global phenomena of rural spaces. Due to this, transverse theoretical and methodological approaches have emerged to explain social, environmental and spatial (rural) processes. Here, a new approach is proposed called the individual–global field, based on the individual–global binary category to substitute the traditional relevance of the locality–community–globality association This new approach tries to reinvigorate rural geography in a more flexible way, based on minor theory, to adapt to all the phenomena that can occur globally. In any case, various spatial planes are proposed, dominated by specific socioeconomic processes on which the rural individual would move. Full article
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