Typification of rural space through multivariate methods: exercise in the rural area of Malaga
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Abstract
The concept of rural space has been changing considerably in Europe since the mid-twentieth century. Due to that the integration of the rural in the global society has been neither simple nor homogeneous, which leads us to suggest that in each territory, rurality has been built from some heterogeneous territorial, cultural and productive bases. Therefore, there is no single rurality, in other words each territory has specific features that should be considered in social analyses. The aim of this paper is to establish a delimitation of the rural area in the province of Malaga using the factorial analysis technique. This analysis has been complemented by a cluster analysis and a non-systematic direct classification, which have both been compared. The final result has been to develop typologies based on the level of productive transformation and the dynamism of the municipalities of Malaga with less than 20000 inhabitants.