‘Cosmovillagers’ as Sustainable Rural Development Actors in Mountain Hamlets? International Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Perceptions of Sustainability in the Lleida Pyrenees (Catalonia, Spain)

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Ricard Morén-Alegret, J. Milazzo, F. Romagosa, G. Kallis
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Abstract In recent decades, small villages in some mountainous regions in Europe have been suffering from ageing and depopulation, yet at the same time, immigrants have been arriving and settling there. This paper sheds light on the perceptions of sustainable rural development among international immigrants living in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants, which are already the home to some ‘cosmovillagers’. If immigrants’ views are left unattended, an important part of reality will be lacking in the picture of mountainous areas because today immigration is qualitatively relevant in rural Europe. This paper aims to answer the following questions, among others: What dimensions of sustainability are underscored? What are the main challenges for sustainability and the proposals for improvement? What are the local sustainability challenges? This paper provides research results and insights based on original data gathered during fieldwork in the Pyrenees as well as analyses of documents, maps and statistics. Specifically, the main focus is on some several sparsely populated areas in the Lleida Pyrenees, e.g. dozens of municipalities in Alt Urgell, Cerdanya, Pallars Sobirà and Val d’Aran. Thus this paper aims to help fill that relative gap in the existing academic literature by offering original qualitative information.
“宇宙村民”是山区乡村可持续发展的行动者?比利牛斯大区国际移民企业家对可持续发展的看法(加泰罗尼亚,西班牙)
近几十年来,欧洲一些山区的小村庄面临着人口老龄化和人口减少的问题,但与此同时,移民不断涌入并定居在那里。本文揭示了居住在人口不足500人的城市的国际移民对可持续农村发展的看法,这些城市已经成为一些“宇宙村民”的家园。如果不考虑移民的观点,那么山区的图景将缺少现实的一个重要部分,因为今天移民与欧洲农村地区在质量上是相关的。本文旨在回答以下问题,其中包括:强调可持续性的哪些方面?可持续发展面临的主要挑战是什么?有哪些改进建议?当地的可持续性挑战是什么?本文根据在比利牛斯山脉实地考察期间收集的原始数据以及对文件、地图和统计数据的分析,提供了研究结果和见解。具体而言,主要重点是比利牛斯州莱里达的几个人口稀少的地区,例如阿尔乌盖尔、塞尔丹尼亚、帕拉斯索比孔和阿兰谷的几十个市镇。因此,本文旨在通过提供原始的定性信息来帮助填补现有学术文献中的相对空白。
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来源期刊
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
12.50%
发文量
29
审稿时长
39 weeks
期刊介绍: European Countryside scope: ecology of rural landscape, rural sociology, demography and gender, multi-functional rural development, agriculture and other branches, rural geography, rural borderland, rural and agro-tourism, rural settlement, small towns as centers of rural micro-regions, rural planning and architecture.
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