Are remote rural areas in Europe remarkable? Challenges and opportunities
基于人口、经济、交通、互联网、生物多样性等指标，分析欧盟偏远农村地区的现状，发现一半处于劣势，但部分拥有良好自然条件，为欧盟绿色协议提供机遇。
Remote rural areas are facing strong demographic and socioeconomic challenges as being far from a city can limit social and economic interaction opportunities. This study analyses the EU remote rural areas based on a set of selected indicators related to demographic, economic, accessibility, connectivity, biodiversity, land use and geographical context. Spatial cluster techniques revealed that half of the remote rural areas are in a disadvantaged situation because they performed poorly on most of the analysed indicators. Despite being remote, a few rural areas presented socioeconomic favourable conditions and high natural assets. This finding motivated our investigation to identify statistical differences between remote and non-remote areas by applying multivariate regression models. Our results showed that remote rural areas face major challenges in relation to transport infrastructures, internet speed, access to essential services, household income, population decline and ageing. On the contrary, their natural landscape and ecosystems, as well as agriculture and forestry can offer new opportunities to remote rural areas while contribute to the goals of the EU Green Deal.