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Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía
Print version ISSN 0121-215XOn-line version ISSN 2256-5442
Abstract
SERENO, Claudia A and SANTARELLI SERER, Silvia Alicia. The Rural: Urban Fringe as a Space of Vulnerability and Risk. A Qualitative Study in the City of Bahía Blanca, Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2012, vol.21, n.2, pp.149-165. ISSN 0121-215X.
The article characterizes the rural-urban fringe, the outer boundary of the peri-urban, of the city of Bahía Blanca, province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), as a space exposed to urban growth and as an environment fraught with fragility and vulnerability for its inhabitants. In order to achieve this objective, the article focuses on the risks posed for the inhabitants of this border area when faced with the threat of having to modify their way of life and of losing their properties due to urban development. The results of the research make it possible to specify the strengths and weaknesses of rural owners and their modalities of action on the basis of their exposure to this expansion and of their rootedness to their place. The compilation technique employed was the semi-structured interview with residents of the rural-urban fringe.
Keywords : adpatation responses; risk; rural-urban; meaning; vulnerability.