Eurostat methodology applied to the characterization of rural and urban Brazilian spaces

Bulletin of Geography. Socio - Economic Series

Gustavo Basto Braga¹  Ana Louise de Carvalho Fiúza² 

[1] Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Departamento de Economia Rural, Avenida Purdue, s/nº, Campus Universitário, Edifício Edson Potsch Magalhães, 36570.900 – Viçosa – MG – BR, Minas Gerais;Universidade do Minho, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Departamento de Geografia, Campus de Azurém, 4800-058 Guimarães

关键词: rurality;    urbanity;    Eurostat;    rural definition;    urban definition;   

DOI  :  10.1515/bog-2018-0036

学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika * Wydawnictwo Naukowe / Nicolaus Copernicus University Press

【 摘 要 】

The Brazilian official statistics show that the country is mainly urban, while authors including Veiga (2002) and Miranda and Silva (2013) present a more rural Brazil. The absence of a uniform way to define the rural areas in Brazil has led to diffused data about rural Brazil’s size. Therefore, are Brazilian regions predominantly urban, rural or intermediate? This paper applies the rural definition methodologies from Eurostat/European Union to the municipalities of Brazil. The results show the predominance of the intermediary category in Brazilian territory, while the population mostly lives in urban areas. However, due to methodological characteristics, this paper reinforces the necessity of developing other methodologies which would be able to identify rurality and urbanity, considering socioeconomic dimensions.

【 授权许可】

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