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Internet Access in Rural Areas: Brake or Stimulus as Post-Covid-19 Opportunity?
- Source :
- Ruiz Martínez, Irune Esparcia Pérez, Javier 2020 Internet Access in Rural Areas: Brake or Stimulus as Post-Covid-19 Opportunity? Sustainability 12 22, Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 22, RODERIC. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, instname, RODERIC: Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat de Valéncia, Universitat de València
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- The lack of internet access in most rural areas has become a challenge worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted trends such as teleworking and e-commerce, meaning an opportunity for the local economy of these areas, but with serious difficulties in carrying it out. This paper aims to detect this lack of internet in inland areas of the region of Valencia through local actors, in order to identify clear priorities and real needs through an explorative and replicable approach based on agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC). The main findings suggest that there are different patterns in the rural internet access related to adequate infrastructure and planned actions by local councils. In this way, a multitude of contextual elements have emerged that influence the importance of efficient access to the internet in rural areas. It is essential to know the real needs and demands of the population before implementing plans and programs that may not be relevant for the actors involved in territorial development.
- Subjects :
- business.product_category
depopulation
Geography, Planning and Development
Population
Desenvolupament rural
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
01 natural sciences
Order (exchange)
Rural Internet
Internet access
Marketing
education
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Internet
education.field_of_study
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Multitude
021107 urban & regional planning
rural-urban
PoblaciĆ³ rural
Medi rural
internet access
The Internet
Business
Rural area
Geografia rural
Meaning (linguistics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....466bc3e0eb597b1bdb6cde3083eef23e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229619