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LA RENOVACIÓN RURAL EN LOS ESPACIOS DE MONTAÑA: LAS COMARCAS DE LA VERTIENTE NORTE DEL SECTOR CENTRAL DE LA CORDILLERA CANTÁBRICA

This article that is integrated in the program of diffusion of results of the investigation proyectos in that is sustained, is centered in the analysis of the changes that are experiencing the productive activities that constitute the economic base of the spaces rural peripherals of the European Union at the present time. He has taken as example the case of an area of the central sector of the northern slope of Cantabrian Mountain. It is a territory integrated by four districts (Liebana, Cabuerniga-Tudanca, Valley of Iguna and Campoo-the Valleys) that share, besides their incues-tionable outlying situation, a deep one and I release crisis process and reconversion so-cioeconomica and space. The restructuring presents, nevertheless, very diverse manifestations, common in some cases and different in others: transformation of the you activi-give agrarian and I change in the orientations productive cattlemen, expansion of the sector of the services, in particular of those related with the tourism and the leisure, decline of the traditional industrial activities, emergence of some new industries and peak of the construction. The differences in the intensity, the rules and the rhythm, of the evolution re-ciente of the economic activity, they are translating in the space reorganization and in the increase of the contrasts and imbalances inter and intracomarcales.