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"This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and remoteness from large metropolitan areas. It uses geographically referenced population data (from the Gridded Population of the World, version 3) to tabulate the distribution of populations in Latin America and in individual countries by population density and by remoteness. It finds that the popular perception of Latin America as a 75 percent urban continent is misleading. Official census criteria, though inconsistent between countries, tend to classify as "urban" small settlements of less than 2,000 people. Many of these settlements are however embedded in an agriculturally based countryside. The paper finds that about 13 percent of Latin America populations live at ultra-low densities of less than 20 per square kilometer. Essentially these people are more than an hour's distance from a large city, and more than half live more than four hours' distance. A quarter of the population of Latin America is estimated to live at densities below 50, again essentially all of them more than an hour's distance from a large city. Almost half (46 pecent) of Latin America live at population densities below 150 (a conventional threshold for urban areas), and more than 90 percent of this group is at least an hour's distance from a city; about one-third of them (18 percent of the total) are more than four hours distance from a large city. "--World Bank web site.
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"This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and remoteness from large metropolitan areas. It uses geographically referenced population data (from the Gridded Population of the World, version 3) to tabulate the distribution of populations in Latin America and in individual countries by population density and by remoteness. It finds that the popular perception of Latin America as a 75 percent urban continent is misleading. Official census criteria, though inconsistent between countries, tend to classify as "urban" small settlements of less than 2,000 people. Many of these settlements are however embedded in an agriculturally based countryside. The paper finds that about 13 percent of Latin America populations live at ultra-low densities of less than 20 per square kilometer. Essentially these people are more than an hour's distance from a large city, and more than half live more than four hours' distance. A quarter of the population of Latin America is estimated to live at densities below 50, again essentially all of them more than an hour's distance from a large city. Almost half (46 pecent) of Latin America live at population densities below 150 (a conventional threshold for urban areas), and more than 90 percent of this group is at least an hour's distance from a city; about one-third of them (18 percent of the total) are more than four hours distance from a large city. "--World Bank web site.
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The 2020 World Happiness Report suggests that rural residents in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are generally happier than their urban counterparts. Similar findings have been reported in country-level studies and broader regional research, especially in Europe. Such findings go against conventional wisdom in the field and represent something of a conundrum to researchers and policymakers alike: the rural-urban happiness paradox. Is quality of life really better in the countryside? How and under which circumstances is this the case? Did influential writers like Edward Glaeser get it all wrong when suggesting that the city had now triumphed? What can we learn from digging deeper in the rural-urban happiness paradox and which critical questions does this leave us with for the future? What might policymakers, planners, architects and other influential actors learn from such an exercise? The purpose of the proposed book is to delve deeper into these matters by asking what quality of life in rural areas is actually all about. Since 2018 a cross-disciplinary team of researchers from four research environments at three Danish universities has been carrying out an ambitious research project to do just that. In this edited volume their findings are presented alongside chapters written by specially commissioned international authors from across Europe, North America, Asia and Africa.
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Voici un récit charmant et captivant qui fascinera les lecteurs dès la première page - et leur donnera l'envie de visiter la campagne irlandaise des jours passés… Barry Laverty, M. D., a toutes les peines du monde à trouver le village de Ballybucklebo en Irlande du Nord sur une carte géographique quand il se met en route pour y chercher un emploi. Il saute sur l'occasion d'occuper un poste d'assistant dans un tout petit cabinet médical de campagne. Du moins, jusqu'à ce qu'il fasse la connaissance du docteur Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. Ce médecin plus âgé a sa propre vision des choses. Au début, Barry n'arrive pas à décider si le pugnace O'Reilly est le plus grand charlatan qu'il ait jamais rencontré ou le meilleur professeur qu'il pouvait espérer avoir un jour. Par l'entremise d'O'Reilly, Barry a très vite l'occasion de connaître tout le village et ses résidents hauts en couleurs et attachants ainsi qu'un tas d'autres personnages excentriques qui font de chaque jour une expérience d'apprentissage pour le jeune médecin inexpérimenté. Ballybucklebo est bien loin de Belfast et Barry découvre vite qu'il a encore beaucoup à apprendre sur la vie rurale. Mais avec du courage et de la compassion plus une petite pincée de blabla, il en apprendra plus sur la vie - et sur l'amour - qu'il ne l'avait jamais cru quand il était à l'école de médecine.
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Quand Louis, le nouveau docteur du village. prend ses fonctions, il n'a pas encore idée de ce qui l'attend : les querelles des ménages, l'hygiène un peu douteuse de ses patients, leurs confidences impudiques. Mais également les Virées en voiture sur des routes étroites pour accoucher une fille mère à toute heure du jour et de la nuit. "Fada", comme le Surnomme son ami de toujours, a épousé sa vocation pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Or, dans son métier le pire et le meilleur ne se lassent jamais de Surprendre.
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Il se mijote toujours quelque chose sous la surface trompeusement endormie du village de Ballybucklebo. Le jeune médecin Barry Laverty vient tout juste de commencer son assistanat auprès de l'excentrique docteur Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, mais il se sent déjà tout à fait chez lui. Quand la mort soudaine d'un patient jette une ombre sur la réputation de Barry, ses chances de s'établir dans le village sont menacées. Tandis qu'il attend avec anxiété les résultats de l'autopsie, il doit regagner la confiance du village cancanier de l'Ulster. En commençant par une vendeuse en magasin exploitée avec une mystérieuse éruption cutanée jusqu'à la grossesse délicate d'une jeune femme pas encore mariée. Ballybucklebo fournit suffisamment de cas pour occuper deux médecins généralistes de campagne. Quand un promoteur gourmand jette son dévolu sur le cœur même de Ballybucklebo - le pub du village -, il revient aux médecins de sauver "le Cygne noir", affectueusement connu sous le nom de « Canard boueux » et empêcher qu'il soit transformé en piège à touriste trop cher. Après tout, les bons citoyens de Ballybucklebo ont besoin d'un endroit où boire à la santé les uns des autres…
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