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Prof. Dr. Angel Paniagua
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Undergraduate degree (1986) and PhD (1990) in Human Geography at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Is the first Spanish researcher with publications in Land Use Policy or Journal of Rural Studies. Referee of more than 40 journals around the world. Author or coauthor of more 150 papers and book chapters. Member of editorial board of some relevant journals (ISI, SCOPUS) in sociology and environmental studies. It is currently Member of Editorial Advisory Group. Environmental Studies book series. Cambridge Schol. Publs., book quality proposals are welcome. Between 2015 and 2017 he was the first representative of the CSIC -Spanish Council for Scientific Research- in the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. Angel Paniagua’s research focuses on four areas of interest: (1.) social, environmental and cultural dimensions of geographical rural change in depopulated rural areas, (2.) the socio-environmental qualitative research, (3.) the history and theory of Rural Geography, (4.) the relationship between nature and society and (5) geographies of urban agriculture.

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Journal article
Published: 14 February 2021 in Sustainability
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Rural differentiation processes have formed the backbone of rural studies. Owing to the strength of rural–urban and local–global relationships, the theoretical approaches to rural restructuring in the Anglo-Saxon world and new rurality in Latin America only have a limited capacity to explain contemporary global phenomena of rural spaces. Due to this, transverse theoretical and methodological approaches have emerged to explain social, environmental and spatial (rural) processes. Here, a new approach is proposed called the individual–global field, based on the individual–global binary category to substitute the traditional relevance of the locality–community–globality association This new approach tries to reinvigorate rural geography in a more flexible way, based on minor theory, to adapt to all the phenomena that can occur globally. In any case, various spatial planes are proposed, dominated by specific socioeconomic processes on which the rural individual would move.

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Angel Paniagua. Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2059 .

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Angel Paniagua. Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (4):2059.

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Angel Paniagua. 2021. "Sustainable Geographical Changes in Rural Areas: Key Paths, Orientations and Limits." Sustainability 13, no. 4: 2059.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2021 in AIMS Geosciences
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Angel Paniagua. Countryside, landscape and heritage in (new) historical Geography: Some considerations in the current geographical tendencies. AIMS Geosciences 2021, 7, 291 -299.

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Angel Paniagua. Countryside, landscape and heritage in (new) historical Geography: Some considerations in the current geographical tendencies. AIMS Geosciences. 2021; 7 (3):291-299.

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Angel Paniagua. 2021. "Countryside, landscape and heritage in (new) historical Geography: Some considerations in the current geographical tendencies." AIMS Geosciences 7, no. 3: 291-299.

Reference work
Published: 08 December 2020 in Handbook of Climate Change Management
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Usually, the relationship between rural areas and Global Climate Change (GCC) has a sectoral point of view. The influence of climate change in agriculture, and in other rural sectors – fisheries, livestock, forestry, and biodiversity and recreation – dominates the analysis of adaptation processes of rural populations. Changes in land use and migration are usually two consequences of climate change in densely populated rural areas. These two dynamics are precedents to the effects of climate change in depopulated rural areas. In low-density rural areas, the impact of climate change has differentiated regional processes. In global north, there are two types of depopulated areas: (1) areas with a historical process of depopulation due to socioeconomic changes of a global nature, but with diverse local manifestations, and (2) rural areas that usually had a low density due to their adverse climatic conditions for human activity. The analysis will pay special attention to depopulated areas through a historical process located in Europe, Australia, and North America, in aspects such as the political agenda for these areas, regional politics, and the resistance processes of local populations.

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Angel Paniagua. Climate Change and Depopulated Rural Areas in the Global North: Geographical Socio-political Processes and Resistances. Handbook of Climate Change Management 2020, 1 -17.

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Angel Paniagua. Climate Change and Depopulated Rural Areas in the Global North: Geographical Socio-political Processes and Resistances. Handbook of Climate Change Management. 2020; ():1-17.

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Angel Paniagua. 2020. "Climate Change and Depopulated Rural Areas in the Global North: Geographical Socio-political Processes and Resistances." Handbook of Climate Change Management , no. : 1-17.

Book chapter
Published: 25 November 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Angel Paniagua. Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 475 -485.

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Angel Paniagua. Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():475-485.

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Angel Paniagua. 2020. "Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 475-485.

Reference work
Published: 02 June 2020 in Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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The geographies of differences and resistances consist of experiences, processes, and visions of people in a distinctive space, expressed through everyday actions and behaviors to stay in a place....

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Angel Paniagua. Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2020, 1 -11.

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Angel Paniagua. Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 2020; ():1-11.

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Angel Paniagua. 2020. "Geographies of Differences (and Resistances) in Urbanized and Depopulated Remote Rural Areas." Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals , no. : 1-11.

Chapter
Published: 08 February 2020 in Internet of Things (IoT) in 5G Mobile Technologies
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The politics of smart village is an innovative area of the European rural policies that can have a remarkable usefulness in depopulated rural areas. It is necessary to distinguish the gap in the politics of smart villages between the core rural areas and peripheral rural areas in Europe and national scales. The implementation of smart villages is easier in the core rural areas and presents more problems in the peripheral rural areas. An integrated scalar vision is needed for/from Europe and a vision for/from each country with different problems, needs and expectations. In this context depopulated Spain is a double rural periphery: European and national. There are two roads around the smart villages: (a) horizontal connecting territories, and (b) firms that favor diversification. Depopulated areas are attractive locations for leisure, work and retirement. The problem is how it is possible develop a politics to smart and competitive areas in the whole of European rural areas and how is possible implement a smart and competitive policy and politics in depopulated areas. Some answers are detailed in this contribution focused mainly in depopulated Spain.

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Angel Paniagua. Smart Villages in Depopulated Areas. Internet of Things (IoT) in 5G Mobile Technologies 2020, 399 -409.

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Angel Paniagua. Smart Villages in Depopulated Areas. Internet of Things (IoT) in 5G Mobile Technologies. 2020; ():399-409.

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Angel Paniagua. 2020. "Smart Villages in Depopulated Areas." Internet of Things (IoT) in 5G Mobile Technologies , no. : 399-409.

Journal article
Published: 01 January 2020 in Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo
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This contribution is an analysis of difference between alternative communities and a case study of others in a community of others. There is no academic consensus in the geographical field about others ruralities. Through the exam of the alternative spaces is possible to advance in the interpretation of the difference and the others. We seek to give a big picture of the alternative communities in depopulated areas and the differences between them. The alternative communities grouped in the Red Iberica of Ecoaldeas are the empirical example with a specific case study: Tierras Altas in Soria (Spain). The technique of investigation in the documentary interpretation of its own sources: leaflets, advertisements, propaganda and information leaflets. A systematic inventory and analysis of the journalistic reports on these initiatives is a secondary source. In addition, geo-ethnographic methods are used in the case of study. The study reveals different -and even contrasted-types of rural alternatives in Spain, based in new form of difference/alternative (rural) lives in a specific and special place and singular housing. It are concluded that among the other alternatives there is no convergence in its self-definition, an open category. It constitutes the symbiosis between nature, community and individual. The relationship between others alternatives and the nature/land is a central element in the discourse, tactics and strategies. In addition, social exclusivity is one of the characteristics of many alternative settlements. It eliminates the conflict between traditional rural communities and new comers. alternative; others; marginality; community; rurality; Spain

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Angel Paniagua. Alternative communities in rural spaces: A world of others. Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo 2020, 51 -69.

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Angel Paniagua. Alternative communities in rural spaces: A world of others. Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo. 2020; (49-1):51-69.

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Angel Paniagua. 2020. "Alternative communities in rural spaces: A world of others." Zbornik radova Departmana za geografiju, turizam i hotelijerstvo , no. 49-1: 51-69.

Articles
Published: 02 January 2019 in Rural Society
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This article examines the concept of resistance in rural studies. Resistance has usually been associated with community responses to global processes that alter rural space and daily life. Ethnographic interviews with 19 farmers in Spain found different individual resistance strategies within each geographic area, evidencing a plurality of responses, or strategies, regarding specific problems. Each person within a community was able to develop a strategy according to their own interests and each community did not constitute a homogeneous confluence of interests. Few studies on processes have linked the plurality of place and rural communities. This article contributes a comparison of the resistance strategies of farmers in rural areas with socio-geographic characteristics to analyse the value of geographic “place” and the plurality of resistance strategies for permanence. Main characteristics of place reveal general strategies of farmers which contrast with the individual, everyday tactics each farmer has for survival within their place.

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Angel Paniagua. Farmers’ resistance in urbanised and remote rural places: a geographical perspective. Rural Society 2019, 28, 15 -28.

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Angel Paniagua. Farmers’ resistance in urbanised and remote rural places: a geographical perspective. Rural Society. 2019; 28 (1):15-28.

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Angel Paniagua. 2019. "Farmers’ resistance in urbanised and remote rural places: a geographical perspective." Rural Society 28, no. 1: 15-28.

Review
Published: 09 April 2018 in Arts & Humanities Open Access Journal
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Ángel Paniagua. A short review of literary geographies of depopulation. Arts & Humanities Open Access Journal 2018, 2, 1 .

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Ángel Paniagua. A short review of literary geographies of depopulation. Arts & Humanities Open Access Journal. 2018; 2 (2):1.

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Ángel Paniagua. 2018. "A short review of literary geographies of depopulation." Arts & Humanities Open Access Journal 2, no. 2: 1.

Article
Published: 13 March 2018 in GeoJournal
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Geography based on feelings and affection is an emergent research area in the rural sphere. Rural areas have undergone processes of social change associated with the movement of people to them. This paper examines the processes of repopulation and social change in depopulated areas using a qualitative methodology based on biographical narrations. The aim is to frame the value of feelings and emotion towards another person in a rural setting of encounter. Therefore, the paper will primarily assess the emotions between two people in building a life in a particular rural place. This contrasts with the more customary approach based on the emotional relationship between individuals and the rural environment as a factor explaining moves to rural areas. The paper will analyse six biographical cases involving women who have moved to/in remote and depopulated areas for love. It concludes that inter-personal feelings are an area that has been under-explored in rural geography yet they may explain mobility processes on a micro scale.

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Angel Paniagua. Encounters in the valley: love and emotions in microprocesses of gentrification in depopulated rural areas. GeoJournal 2018, 84, 471 -481.

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Angel Paniagua. Encounters in the valley: love and emotions in microprocesses of gentrification in depopulated rural areas. GeoJournal. 2018; 84 (2):471-481.

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Angel Paniagua. 2018. "Encounters in the valley: love and emotions in microprocesses of gentrification in depopulated rural areas." GeoJournal 84, no. 2: 471-481.

Article
Published: 18 September 2017 in GeoJournal
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The aim of this study is to place the current geographical debate on nature in the context of protected natural areas severely affected by depopulation processes, in which the daily lives of the inhabitants have been altered by changes in the traditional balance between human and non-human populations. A significantly humanized area within the Sierra Norte de Guadalajara National Park in central Spain is considered as an example. The qualitative methodology followed is based on documentary analysis and interviews with key inhabitants in the area, revealing narratives with a productive or consumer view of the nature. The national park appears as a container of a cultural nature, initially created by the traditional inhabitants, which generates an artificial, excessive nature and accelerates regressive sociodemographic dynamics.

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Angel Paniagua. Local people unprotected by protected (depopulated) natural areas: the case of Sierra Norte Guadalajara, Spain. GeoJournal 2017, 83, 993 -1004.

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Angel Paniagua. Local people unprotected by protected (depopulated) natural areas: the case of Sierra Norte Guadalajara, Spain. GeoJournal. 2017; 83 (5):993-1004.

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Angel Paniagua. 2017. "Local people unprotected by protected (depopulated) natural areas: the case of Sierra Norte Guadalajara, Spain." GeoJournal 83, no. 5: 993-1004.

Articles
Published: 21 July 2017 in Space and Polity
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The concept of resistance is multidimensional in political and rural geography. It is mainly used to classify communities’ strategies in response to the actions of extra-local public and private agents. In this approach, the community is usually studied homogeneously. However, some interpretations consider that resistance creates differentiation processes within the rural community. From this perspective, individual resistance strategies can be analysed, which join forces in times of community resistance. In depopulated regions, the purpose of resistance is to remain in a place. This paper studies several cases of resistance in small populations affected by depopulation in a region of Spain.

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Angel Paniagua. Spatial and individual resistance(s) in depopulated and remote rural areas. Space and Polity 2017, 21, 303 -317.

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Angel Paniagua. Spatial and individual resistance(s) in depopulated and remote rural areas. Space and Polity. 2017; 21 (3):303-317.

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Angel Paniagua. 2017. "Spatial and individual resistance(s) in depopulated and remote rural areas." Space and Polity 21, no. 3: 303-317.

Original articles
Published: 02 January 2017 in Landscape History
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Few studies in the geographical literature have focused on historic rural routes, which are traditionally considered to be part of the farming landscape. Today, this subject can be tackled from the perspective of changing rural spaces and the disappearance of traditional landscapes and societies. This work studies the evolution of routes that connected municipalities in a mountainous region in the north of the Madrid province, focusing on the creation and disappearance of one particular historic rural route. Various information sources are used: documentary and archival sources, fieldwork for geographical dating of the route and informal interviews and geoethnographical analysis of the elderly population of permanent residents in the area.

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Angel Paniagua Mazora. The (lost) life of a historic rural route in the core of Guadarrama Mountains, Madrid (Spain). A geographical perspective. Landscape History 2017, 38, 81 -94.

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Angel Paniagua Mazora. The (lost) life of a historic rural route in the core of Guadarrama Mountains, Madrid (Spain). A geographical perspective. Landscape History. 2017; 38 (1):81-94.

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Angel Paniagua Mazora. 2017. "The (lost) life of a historic rural route in the core of Guadarrama Mountains, Madrid (Spain). A geographical perspective." Landscape History 38, no. 1: 81-94.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2016 in Sociální studia / Social Studies
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The study of and participation in festivals and celebrations is an area of great interest in the tourism experience. Social situations and a power structure (which is unequal) can be expressed through the events taking place. Also, by studying the organization of events one can identify different ways of articulating local authenticity and socio-cultural processes of rural change in a global context. Using qualitative techniques, the present study focuses on different events affected, to varying degrees, by socio-cultural processes of rural change in a global setting. Events with farming origins have been studied in term of, or associated with, the seasons, or interactions of the seasonal weather with the agriculture. Also of interest are other festivals or events of more recent origins which try to revive the historical roots of an area or recover traditional trades or professions. The events are often a means of setting rural traditions in a different socio-cultural context, and of emphasizing the nature of the rural place. Hence, each celebration has a different function in each place.

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Angel Paniagua. New Rurality, Events, and Festivals in Selected Places of Rural Spain. Sociální studia / Social Studies 2016, 13, 113 -129.

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Angel Paniagua. New Rurality, Events, and Festivals in Selected Places of Rural Spain. Sociální studia / Social Studies. 2016; 13 (2):113-129.

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Angel Paniagua. 2016. "New Rurality, Events, and Festivals in Selected Places of Rural Spain." Sociální studia / Social Studies 13, no. 2: 113-129.

Articles
Published: 09 February 2016 in The Professional Geographer
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To date, only limited research has focused on the individual in rural geography compared to the importance given to the rural community. With the sociocultural turn and moral positions in rural geography, however, the individual is acquiring more relevance but encapsulated in analytical traditions of locality community and of marginal situations and people. This article synthesizes the most significant works about the individual, especially within rural geography, and its key dimensions are identified: citizenship (political and normative dimension), emotional aspects (the extraordinary moments in peoples' lives), everyday life (the relationship between the individual and the rural place), and difference and otherness (between and within others). To develop an individual rural geography, these four dimensions, which reflect different aspects of the rural individual, must be used in a complementary manner. The relevance of each dimension suggests different types of individualities in rural areas. Ultimately, this article proposes a “new humanism” in contrast with antihumanistic poststructural approaches.

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Angel Paniagua. An Individual Rural Geography. The Professional Geographer 2016, 68, 511 -518.

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Angel Paniagua. An Individual Rural Geography. The Professional Geographer. 2016; 68 (3):511-518.

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Angel Paniagua. 2016. "An Individual Rural Geography." The Professional Geographer 68, no. 3: 511-518.

Journal article
Published: 06 August 2014 in The Geographical Journal
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Ángel Paniagua. Geographical trajectories, biographical determinants and (new) place political elites in selected remote rural areas of north-central Spain. The Geographical Journal 2014, 181, 401 -412.

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Ángel Paniagua. Geographical trajectories, biographical determinants and (new) place political elites in selected remote rural areas of north-central Spain. The Geographical Journal. 2014; 181 (4):401-412.

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Ángel Paniagua. 2014. "Geographical trajectories, biographical determinants and (new) place political elites in selected remote rural areas of north-central Spain." The Geographical Journal 181, no. 4: 401-412.

Journal article
Published: 20 December 2013 in Land
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Agriculture and its conflicts is a traditional debate in contemporary rural geography, associated with the organization and transformation of cultural landscapes by social groups. One of the most important areas of research is the perspectives and responses of farmers on the urban-rural fringe. The problems associated with land use change and the varying influences on new uses of traditional landscape introduce renovating and permanent elements to the management, responses and perspectives of farmers: extensification, changes in the organization of farm, relocation, etc. The purpose of this research is to analyze the conflicts, key responses and perspectives over farmland uses and their coexistence with the main dynamics of local and regional land use governance in the metropolitan rural area of Madrid, Spain. This contribution presents the main results of an empirical research in a key area in the north of the Madrid region: the municipalities of Colmenar Viejo and Tres Cantos. The methodology is mainly qualitative, based on an ethno geographical approach concerning livestock farmers directly affected by the urbanization process. The main results reflect the relevance of local politics and the individual livestock farmers’ strategies.

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Ángel Paniagua. Perspectives of Livestock Farmers in an Urbanized Environment. Land 2013, 3, 19 -33.

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Ángel Paniagua. Perspectives of Livestock Farmers in an Urbanized Environment. Land. 2013; 3 (1):19-33.

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Ángel Paniagua. 2013. "Perspectives of Livestock Farmers in an Urbanized Environment." Land 3, no. 1: 19-33.