Entwicklungsdynamiken der hyper-ländlichen Räume in Frankreich : Neue wirtschaftliche Basis für französische ländliche Peripherräume

The Dynamics of Hyper-rural Areas in France : New Economic Bases for French Rural Peripheries

Samuel Depraz (1)

1 EVS - Environnement, Ville, Société

In a context of strengthened metropolization and urban growth, official French spatial categories have erased the references to rural areas as a space distinct from cities and their influence, so that the adjective “rural” appears now to be an out-dated socio-spatial scientific reference. However, this paper intends to demonstrate that rural peripheries in France are still to be considered as a research object per se, since recent changes into the most remote, scarcely populated areas in France have occurred. Based on three recent studies, this paper will show that “hyper-rural” peripheries are growing again, with positive allocations of revenues and new, non-productive economic bases – but with remaining structural weaknesses at the same time. That is why an adapted regional policy is still claimed for those “hyper-rural areas”.

Mots clés: France; rural areas; peripheries; economic base

Domaines: Géographie

Samuel Depraz. The Dynamics of Hyper-rural Areas in France : New Economic Bases for French Rural Peripheries. Ulrike Grabski-Kieron, Ingo Mose, Anja Reichert-Schick, Annett Steinführer. European rural peripheries revalued. Governance, actors, impacts , LIT-Verlag, pp.47-63, 2016, coll. "Rural areas: Issues of local and regional development / Ländliche Räume. Beiträge zur lokalen und regionalen Entwicklung", 9783643130501. ⟨halshs-01547589⟩