Administrative rural proofing for territories with demographic challenges "Impresión Bajo Demanda"

Since the issue of the abandonment of rural territories has been reintroduced into the agenda of national and European public policies, decisions and rules have been made with an aim that seem to be leading to an entrenchment of the conflict between the interests of the population that remains in the forgotten areas and the interests of other policies that are strongly anchored in long-term strategies.

The rules in which these strategic decisions are translated clash with territories and communities on which a decrease or a set of rules is imposed that makes it impossible for traditional activities to develop and adapt to the new times.

In this context, the citizens of remote (or, in popular Spanish terminology, empty') areas, who observe how other interests prevail over their demands, are confronted with a tide of alien' rules, imposed, experienced as impositions' that necessarily generate conflict, just when it seemed that positive discrimination in favour of their particular conditions would have been passed in the context of the European long-term strategy for rural areas'.

Against this backdrop, this collective work aims to provide an study of some of these conflicts, to balance the particular interests of rural territories with the major strategic objectives that mark the institutional agenda, and to vindicate the importance of orienting the actions of public authorities towards the ever necessary restoration of the dignity of rural communities.

ÍNDICE

Prologue / Fernando Carbajo Cascón

Chapter I. Legislative and institutional reforms to address the demographic and territorial challenge: a global perspective / José Luis Domínguez Álvarez

Chapter II. General laws and territorial government in rural areas: the Kingdom of Spain / Marcos M. Fernando Pablo

Chapter III. Demographic challenge and renewable energies: is Spain an example for Europe? / Daniel Terrón Santos

Chapter IV. A rural proofing mechanism to enhance special financial and taxation policies in areas with demographic singularities: the case of Castile and Leon / Nora Libertad Rodríguez Peña

Chapter V. Security management in rural areas with demographic challenges: analysis of public crime prevention policies from the perspective of formal social control / Alicia Rodríguez Sánchez

Chapter VI. Agri-food sector and rural environment / Pilar Talavera Cordero