IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/vrs/eurcou/v13y2021i2p330-351n12.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

What Do Public Policies Teach us About Rural Depopulation: The Case Study of Spain

Author

Listed:
  • Pinilla Vicente

    (Professor Vicente Pinilla, Universidad de Zaragoza, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, Zaragoza, Spain)

  • Sáez Luis Antonio

    (Associated Professor Luis Antonio Sáez Pérez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, Zaragoza, Spain)

Abstract

This study evaluates the policies developed in Spain to address depopulation and explains the reasons for their low effectiveness. We consider that the low impact of these policies is due to an incorrect diagnosis and design in terms of their content and governance. Therefore, we propose that depopulation policies should have the objective of enabling citizens to reside where they wish and obtain the best possible quality of life. These policies should be implemented within a new governance framework in which the foundations on which they are based and the way in which they are implemented are renewed. With the support of the European Union, such action could be carried out more efficiently and could constitute a reference of successful territorial cohesion contributing to erasing the populist opinion in places that believe that they do not matter.

Suggested Citation

  • Pinilla Vicente & Sáez Luis Antonio, 2021. "What Do Public Policies Teach us About Rural Depopulation: The Case Study of Spain," European Countryside, Sciendo, vol. 13(2), pages 330-351, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:eurcou:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:330-351:n:12
    DOI: 10.2478/euco-2021-0021
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0021
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.2478/euco-2021-0021?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fátima Matos Silva & Cristina Sousa & Helena Albuquerque, 2022. "Analytical Model for the Development Strategy of a Low-Density Territory: The Montesinho Natural Park," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-18, April.
    2. Antonín Vaishar & Milada Šťastná & Hilda Kramáreková, 2022. "Moravian–Slovak Borderland: Possibilities for Rural Development," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-16, March.
    3. Eugenio Cejudo-García & Francisco Navarro-Valverde & José Antonio Cañete-Pérez, 2022. "Who Decides and Who Invests? The Role of the Public, Private and Third Sectors in Rural Development according to Geographical Contexts: The LEADER Approach in Andalusia, 2007–2015," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-20, March.
    4. Andrés Rodríguez-Pose & Lewis Dijkstra & Hugo Poelman, 2024. "The Geography of EU Discontent and the Regional Development Trap," Economic Geography, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 100(3), pages 213-245, May.
    5. Luis Antonio Sáez & Vicente Pinilla, 2024. "Ends and Means in Spanish Depopulation Policies: Rethinking Development Objectives in Sparsely Populated Rural Areas," Documentos de Trabajo dt2024-02, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Zaragoza.
    6. Cecilia Reynaud & Sara Miccoli, 2023. "Demographic sustainability in Italian territories: The link between depopulation and population ageing," Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, vol. 21(1), pages 339-360.
    7. Nalin Wu & Erling Li & Yihan Su & Li Li & Li Wang, 2022. "Social Capital, Crop Specialization and Rural Industry Development—Taking the Grape Industry in Ningling County of China as an Example," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(7), pages 1-22, July.
    8. Thomas Dax & Andrew Copus, 2022. "European Rural Demographic Strategies: Foreshadowing Post-Lisbon Rural Development Policy?," World, MDPI, vol. 3(4), pages 1-19, November.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:vrs:eurcou:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:330-351:n:12. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Peter Golla (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciendo.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.