Classification of Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Application of a Rural Development Index for Austria and Portugal

Barraí Hennebry; Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz

doi:10.2478/quageo-2020-0014

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Classification of Structurally Weak Rural Regions: Application of a Rural Development Index for Austria and Portugal

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 39 (2020): Issue 2 (June 2020)

By: Barraí Hennebry and Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz

Open Access

|Jun 2020

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse to what extent the level and dynamics of development of rural regions located in two firmly different countries, Austria and Portugal, differ. In order to do this, an index to measure the ‘structural strength’ of rural regions was created. This index is a more holistic measure of socio-economic development than the traditional GDP per capita. After the identification of structurally weak regions in both Austria and Portugal, the paper compares them in the context of challenges faced by such regions.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/quageo-2020-0014 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103

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Language: English

Page range: 5 - 14

Submitted on: Mar 26, 2020

Published on: Jun 11, 2020

Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University

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Keywords:

rural development,

regional disparities,

Austria,

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