RT Journal Article
T1 Borders, cross-border cooperation and depopulation: the case of the Spanish-Portuguese North-Central Border
A1 Podadera-Rivera, Pablo
A1 Calderón-Vázquez, Francisco José
K1 España - Fronteras y límites
K1 Portugal - Fronteras y límites
AB Cross-border cooperation has been (and still is) one of the main assets of the acquis communitiare in everything that refers to cross-border development. In fact, development initiatives aimed at addressing the problems of intra-European border areas could have better results if they were concerted (horizontally coordinated) and executed jointly by the governments, national, and local actors from both border sides, to improve their populations’ quality of life. The study goal is to provide new contributions that enrich critical reflection and debate on the issue of depopulation, in order to propose economic policy recommendations within a framework of cross-border institutional cooperation and inter- and intra-governmental coordination of political actors involved.
PB European Commision (Open Research Europe)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33492
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33492
LA eng
NO PODADERA-RIVERA P and CALDERON-VAZQUEZ FJ. Borders, cross-border cooperation and depopulation: the case of the Spanish-Portuguese North-Central Border [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] Open Research Europe 2023, 3:200 https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.16319.1
NO We prepared a descriptive analysis of its evolution during the period 1960-2020, with three essential variables: a) population evolution border based on the losses or gains verified with respect to 1960; b) critical population mass existing in 2020 based on the indicator of population density (inhabitants per square kilometer), and c) level of population aging based on the indicator percentage of population over 65 years of age over total population. Our descriptive analysis exclusively covers the border municipalities located along the both sides of the Spanish-Portuguese north-central border line, a total of 49 border municipalities (nine Portuguese and 40 spanish).
NO This project has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research & Innovation as part of the COST Action CA20123 - Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance (IGCOORD), as supported by the COST Association (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026