RURAL GEOGRAPHY

Author: MORAL TROYA AGUSTIN.
Year: 2003.
University: JAÉN.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION.

Summary: In this dissertation is a study of the structure of ownership of the various institutions and social strata in the kingdom of Jaen a lo largo del siglo XVIII. It also discusses all aspects involved so that such a division of land between the various sectors. This research not only seeks to deepen economic issues, but also aspects of mentality that explain the meaning they had to land owners, and the influence exerted on the tenure. Among the economic issues discussed highlights ele studio burdens weighing on the properties and developments. It also highlights the role of women in world agriculture, the study of the leases, analysis of the major deals and the study of their crops.

Author: FIGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA URBANO DE MENDONÇA JOAO PEDRO.
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.
Place of defense: FACULTADE DE XEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE XEOGRAFÍA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.

Summary: Lamego Távora and consists of seven municipalities in the Northern Region of Portugal, with an area of 1080 km2, a resident population of 71400 people and an economic base almost exclusivamete agrícola.Las latest trends in the evolution of Portuguese agriculture and European show this activity, despite contributing less and less to the production of wealth in different regions, in some of them assumed a significance that goes beyond its economic value and becomes, therefore, essential to farmers for their future. This thesis tried to demonstrate, based on a process of rationalization and specialization of two timber crops, vineyards and fruit growing in manzanas.Entonces  What variables were selected? It resorted to two main sources: the statistics relating to fruit production and vineyard in Portugal and in the Douro, from the mid-twentieth century, and the interview in profundidas to 25 farms located in this region. Viticulture adquerío importance essentially from the seventeenth century, the result of the influence of English merchants in the región.La fruticultura for commercial purposes is a process much more reciente.Solamente from the mid-twentieth century is introduced when the principals of modern fruticultura apple in this area. In this paper, demonstrated the resilience of some farmers to different conjunctures of the rural Portuguese integrated into the broader picture of the European Community.

Author: MOLLEVÍ BORTOLÓ GEMMA.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACUTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The research has as its main theme the culture of the vine and wine in Catalonia. A regional study of geography in which discusses those factors physical and human interrelated from vine cultivation and the entire process of production, marketing and consumption of wine taking place in the specific region of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia . The interest in this study lies in the impact it has on the present culture of the vine and wine and the fact that the region has traditionally chosen ancient wine. The research was conducted from the point of view of Geography, but is enriched by other disciplines such as law, economics, among others. This disciplinariedad brings different views on the topic and enriches the end result. In Part One sets out the objectives of the investigation, the hypothesis of departure, the methodology and data sources that have been used for the preparation of this research, which are of two types, statistical sources and sources type library. Part II reviews the historical development of the area, production and marketing of wine, from the earliest evidence of the culture of the vine and wine in Catalonia until the twentieth century, valuing the historical reasons, physical, cultural, economic religious or who have established critical periods or gold in the wine sector in Catalonia. In addition, he examines legislation played by the three scales have administrative powers in the CC.AA de Catalunya, explores aspects wine, as the influence of physical, varieties, the changes introduced and the distribution of the area under vines and aspects vine, as the current wine-making process and the evaluation of wine production. It discusses the various trading strategies of individual firms wine in a more competitive market and how the wine sector is developing some Catalan regions. Finally, we present the twelve designations of origin (DO) wine exist in Catalonia. The Third Party show the evolution of the concept of the vine and wine in Catalan society, because it is an agricultural sector whose symbolism has evolved and whose merger with the Catalan culture and society has been increasing or decreasing depending on the prevailing values . The grape and wine have been so important in the past that have left their mark on works of art, dance, ritual demonstrations and travelers' tales, directly or symbolic. The baggage got is a rich wine culture, diverse and dynamic, constantly changing, explaining that now, the role of the vine and wine in society, far from diminishing or disappearing, has reached great heights of social wealth . Science even has spoken, announcing the beneficial characteristics that have moderate and regular consumption of red wine. Moreover, it has created a new branch of tourism: enoturismo. ,

Author: MOLTÓ MANTERO ENRIQUE A..
Year: 2004.
University: ALICANTE.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE GEOGRAFÍA.

Summary: The fundamental objective of this dissertation is not forgetting the classical theoretical reflections and the methodological and analytical skills of other authors analyze plurifuncionalida of agriculture by applying new sources and new methods in the field work on a particular territory and well-bounded, but some conclusions can be valid generically in many rural areas Spaniards. This monograph should put in the context of recent studies on the new possibilities postoproductivas on rural development and its own options advocated by the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union on multiple in rural areas and multi-agriculture suppliers of agricultural products on the one hand and as a producer of public goods, on the other, to create nature and landscape, preserve the environment and facilitate the management of the territory, elements by which a citizen taxpayer must pay. We try to highlight the multiple functions of agriculture, including the production function, marginalized in some proposals for integrated rural development.

Author: SAN ROMÁN RODRÍGUEZ JOSÉ M..
Year: 2004.
University: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA.
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE XEOGRAFÍA, FACULTAD DE XEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTADD E XEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The dissertation is a study of a mountainous territory which covers 2,351 Km2 which is shared by fifteen municipalities in the provinces of Leon, Zamora and Ourense (Galicia and Castillla and Leon). He agreed largely with Mountain Galaico-Leonesas and tectonic trenches of Valdeorras O Bolo. Predominantly rocks silicates and are noted for their economic value tabloids. In this mountain area forms of relief flattened, the result of the intense erosion processes that have occurred in some sections contrasted with a riverine network very securely fastened. In the Sierras Segundera, Axis and Cabrera appear in the footsteps of glaciarismo quaternary. This is a mountainous Massif dividing watershed del Duero and SII-Miño. The climate is affected by the altitude and exposure, the Mediterranean influences are seen in the river valleys Casaio, Cabrera and Sil. At higher altitudes are more intense precipitation and temperatures below zero with frequent frosts. The vegetation cover is home to species domain eurosiberiano and Mediterranean. In the first match O Teixedal of Casaio and second masses encinares and alcornocales Valley Cabrera and Sil. In the period 1950-2001 reduces the population of 48,925 to 31,009 inhabitants. Only grows township O Barco and some municipal seats. The capital barquense with 11,398 inhabitants and the parishes of this township concentrated half of the population of the area of study. The trend of aging is lower in the valley of Sil (in the municipality of O Barco 22.32% of the population is under 19 years). Population distribution by the sectors of activity in the fifteen municipalities, shows a high percentage of people employed in the secondary sector (49.2%) and third (43.31%) and decreases in prinario to (7.00 %). The agricultural sector is in crisis, have reduced the number of farms (-45.75%) and increased farmland abandoned. Most farms are oriented toward subsistence, but in the last decade there has been an increase in the size delas holdings. The most profitable are dedicated to viticulture in the valley of Valdeorras. The surface mount is very extensive, the few jobs that are related to generate some jobs and cultural services firefighting. Have been included in the network of protected areas of Galicia and Castilla-Leon certain areas of high landscape value. The stocking forest have not served to generate an assistant timber industry. Also, large tracts of chestnut groves, and the production of this fruit provides supplementary income in some parishes mountain. In addition to these surfaces forest concetra wealth of mycological study space. Mining is the economic activity, more jobs. The exploitation of limestone rock has driven the location of the company CEDIE.También has been extracted tin in the parish of Penouta, Viana do Bolo. The slate industry output increases with sales to France, and in turn influences the job when it comes to a very intensive in the workforce. With over three thousand employed in these mining is the main export product of Ourense and third in the proncia de Leon. The construction of hydropower plants has had a major impact on economic activity. Specialization energy continues with the construction in 2001 of four wind farms. Improvements in the provision of public services such as education facilities and health services have created many jobs. The district hospital of Valdeorras ejmplifica improvements in health care services and the impact on employment. The number of business establishments had increased with increasing levels of income, and in other cases by the relationship 8 onados c 30e on the road. It has extended the offer estableicimientos rural tourism. Programs Leader and Proder has participated in the financing. It is a mountain area where there are lights and shadows, the possibilities for regional development and intervention can be critical to eliminate the shadows, and the Massif mountain Trevinca is a living space.

Author: RUIZ PULPON ANGEL RAUL.
Year: 2004.
University: CASTILLA-LA MANCHA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE LETRAS.

Summary: The thesis is the classification territorial municipalities of the Guadiana river basin which have some similar characteristics of their irrigation, in order to raise a model space to decision making on the management of water resources, agricultural and environmental Castilla-La Mancha, in keeping with the precepts laid down by the Water Framework Directive and the European Spatial Strategy. To achieve this we have used, from a theoretical point of view, a comprehensive and systemic approach to bring together the principles that define sustainable agriculture, defined as one that combines the specific environmental, economic and social territory. From a methodological point of view, it has benefited from the analysis of multivariate statistical techniques, which allow the assimilation of all municipalities some variables information relating to the theoretical foundations of the work, selecting an analysis of clusters by means of Ward. The use of such techniques allows the pooling of municipalities with homogeneous characteristics of their irrigated, while ensuring the maximum difference to other conglomerates created. Key results of the investigation show, once definidad agriculture gift Basin from a multidisciplinary perspective, the emergence of eight categories of land, where there is the obvious presence of esquilibrios in municipalities with more intensive irrigated, compared to other categories that either show greater restraint in their indicators, or they identify a residual role. The final results can be taken into account within the complex game that set the social forces that use water, and can also help us to value the new laws that have a direct bearing on the management of water resources, such as the development, at the behest the National Hydrological Plan, a new Draft Plan Special High Guadiana, or the possible consequences that can generate the imminent transfer of the Tagus to the Mancha plain.

Author: GONZÁLEZ RODRIGUEZ LAURA ELENA.
Year: 2004.
University: SEVILLA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: This research makes an analysis characterization of the landscape of the San Marcos River Basin in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico on the basis of their biophysical components, operation and dynamics between the years 1973 and 2003. This identified 25 subunits landscape listed in two major units or geosistemas: Geosistema Mountain: (10) in the Sierra Madre Oriental and Geosistema of Plain (15) in the Depression Victoria. The results showed that after 30 years of handling antrópico maintenance of the mass of scrub submontanoen basin has been a 24% of their area, as well as the forest has advanced on the scrub and cultivation, marking a clear recovery. The retraction of scrub before the crop has been an 17%. Throughout the scrub and forest without altering in the past 30 years representing an 42% on the surface of the basin. The most important maintenance occurs in the middle and lower basin of the watershed and depression Victoria. It is concluded that there is a different dynamic in the past 40 years between the formations mesofilas of the mountain and tropofila of the plains. In the mountain degradation has been less and focuses on the penetration through the valleys. In the Plains this degradation and transformation has been very important, especially in years 50 and 70 has been made in the last decade. The pace of recovery of the forest tropofilo (scrub submontano) and scrub tropo-xerovilo is less than 25 years while in the mountains the pace of recovery for the ecosystem pine is 20 years. Finally we say that the state of conservation of the basin is the most optimal regional environment. And according to the dynamics of the past 30 years is acceptable conservándose remnants natural in each of the units of the landscape, except for the tropical grasslands (savannah or zacatonales Mexicans).

Author: MOYA GARCÍA EGIDIO.
Year: 2004.
University: JAÉN.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACIÓN.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE JAÉN.

Summary: STUDIES OF FORESTRY IN PUBLIC SYSTEM OF COMARCAS MERIDIONALES OF THE PROVINCE OF JAÉN, DOMINADAS BY SIERRA MÁGINA, SIERRA AND SOUTH GUADIANA THE VALLEY OF THE CHILD, THE PERIOD DURING WHICH TRANSCURRE BETWEEN CATASTRO OF ENSENADA (1752) AND THE NEWS, FROM A PERSPECTIVE GEOHISTÓRICA. IN THE SAME IS MADE BY ONE SIDE, THE IMPACT ON PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH PREDIOS, BOTH OF SOIL AS OF FLIGHT AND INFRASTRUCTURE. And BY ANOTHER, BE DISCUSS PORMENORIZADAMENTE THE USES (APROVECHAMIENTOS, TOURIST AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES) AND FUNCTIONS (ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC) THAT OVER THE PERIOD BE DIRECTED IDO PRODUCIENDO, BEARING IN BOTH THE GOAL OF SECTIONS OBSERVE THE CHANGING HOW HAS DIDO MANAGEMENT OF FORESTRY.

Author: MENDEZ ESPINOSA JOSE ARTURO.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA, UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The study analyzes and explains the major historical, socio-economic and political factors that have influenced the continuing transformation of the territorial Soconusco region in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The investigation was dealt from the analysis of the changes in the structure agroproductiva regional, which are presented as a result of the joint elements of nature exogenous and endogenous. That for the purpose of identifying the strategies of reproduction that have deployed Units Domesticas Campesinas (UDC) for its restoration and permanence, and they have allowed recomponerse productive and socially. The investigation was conducted under a territorial approach, as part of the vision of a new rural county levels and from the socio-economic aspect of the multifunctional character of agriculture and the recomposition of peasant agriculture.

Author: CORTÉS SAMPER CARLOS.
Year: 2005.
University: ALICANTE.
Place of defense: FACULTAD FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE GEOGRAFÍA UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE.

Summary: The Mountain Alicante is a geographical area comprising 42 municipalities with fewer than 2000 people. The present research has analyzed the recent demographic trends, in which the most significant feature has been changing demographic trend due to positive migratory balance, this behavior has on many of the municipalities and agreed temporarily to other new socio-economic processes. On the one hand have been applied to rural development initiatives by the EU (LEADER) has been widespread consideration of this area as a potential resource for the expansion urbanistica. Furthermore, it has been made known through the uneven development of rural tourism, and all this in a context related to the impact on two areas: on the one hand the shaft urban industrial Alcoy-Cocentaina-Muro and, secondly, the area the north coast of the province of Alicante. All these issues hansido analyzed in the present investigation, in order to establish possible links and realize the current situation in the municipalities of the Mount of Alicante.

Author: PAÒL I CARRIL VALERIÀ.
Year: 2005.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTAT DE GEOGRAFÍA I HISTÒRIA.

Author: VALLE RODRÍGUEZ SANTIAGO.
Year: 2006.
University: AUTÓNOMA DE BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS.

Summary: It presents an introduction which describe a comprehensive historical information on the preservation and protection of nature. The role, function and importance of management in the PNA and the current situation in Mexico on these issues. It then provides the background, which describes global environmental problems, the role of sustainable development in the PNA, the importance of biodiversity in the PNA, the development of conservatism in Mexico, the situation of the PNA in a state of Zacatecas and the characteristics of the Sierra de Monte Escobedo. In a following section, presents 8una overview of the country in terms of physical, social and cultural diversity. It mentions the current status of biodiversity globally and the impact of conservation strategies of the PNA. In a second section, up to the general description of the state of Zacatecas, starting with their physical and social environment. It highlights their specificity on the issues of biodiversity and PNA. Similarly deals with the municipality of Monte Escobedo, highlighting their natural heritage. Later, describing the area under study: the Sierra mountain Escobedo, highlighting its value natural landscape more representative. In a final section, presents the proposal for the creation model and the management plan for the Natural Park Municipal Sierra mountain Escobedo for the purpose of biodiversity conservation and development dela local population. Finally, we present the findings to the study that appears in this work.