Refining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile

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dc.contributor.authorAnriquez, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorCalabrese, Jazmine
dc.contributor.authorFoster, William
dc.contributor.authorKeim, Klaus
dc.contributor.authorOsses, Pablo
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T16:14:20Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T16:14:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe rural-urban divide has traditionally been used to characterize key features of regions, including features of economic geography like density and connectivity that determine the prospects for economic growth and other dimensions of territorial development. In this paper, we develop a methodology that identifies areas along the urban-rural continuum according to their key features of population density and distance to large urban settlements at a more-detailed scale than the smallest administrative areas, taking Chile as a case study, a country that has experienced a rapid socio-economic transition over the last three decades. Information derived from the application of this methodology allows the identification of geographic categories according to observable density and distance. We also present geographic definitions of urban, rural, and mixed areas, which allow a practical, policy-relevant taxonomy of the rural-urban landscape, consistent with the 3-tier approach taken in most OECD countries. We demonstrate the relevance and practical importance of this smaller-scale approach by showing that, in the case of Chile, there is a significant mismatch between the official, cruder definitions, based on political subdivisions and currently in use by the government, and the realities of the country's present ruralurban landscape. Our results demonstrate that a focus on the scale at which information can be interpreted and summarized is not merely an academic exercise, but a way of correctly identifying, within the policymaking framework, communities according to the realities of their needs and capabilities.
dc.description.funderChilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103318
dc.identifier.eissn1873-7730
dc.identifier.issn0143-6228
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103318
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/90435
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001258679800001
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaApplied geography
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectRural-urban landscape
dc.subjectTravel time
dc.subjectPopulation density
dc.subjectConnectivity
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.titleRefining the scale of the rural-urban landscape: A policy-relevant application to Chile
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen168
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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