Accesibilidad y procesos de despoblación rural: propuesta metodológica en Castilla-La Mancha (España)

Accessibility to certain basic services and equipment is of particular interest in the design of policies that seek to curb rural population decline processes. Its relevance is acknowledged also by institutions, as for example in the recent Population Decline Act of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), that...

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Authors: Ruiz Pulpón, Ángel Raúl, Martínez Sánchez-Mateos, Héctor Samuel
Format: article
Publication Date:2022
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/39039
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.30827/cuadgeo.v61i1.22409
https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/cuadgeo/article/view/22409
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/39039
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Accesibilidad
Accessibility
análisis factorial
Castilla-La Mancha
despoblación
factorial analysis
Ley de despoblación.
population decline
Population Decline Act
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Summary:Accessibility to certain basic services and equipment is of particular interest in the design of policies that seek to curb rural population decline processes. Its relevance is acknowledged also by institutions, as for example in the recent Population Decline Act of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), that considers accessibility as one of the basic criteria when delimiting different levels of population decline. This article shows a methodological proposal for the analysis of accessibility in the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha, so that it can serve as a reference for the diagnosis of population decline processes and respond to the technical assumptions established in that law. The methodology consists in measuring the degree of accessibility to functional, health and educational services and their level of correlation between accessibility and population decline. The conclusions demonstrate, on the one hand, the logical relationship between population decline and lower access capacity; and, on the other, the accessibility analysis to provide basic services is essential when defining the population decline phenomenon from a territorial perspective.