Bases territoriales para la construcción regional en el espacio fronterizo del Suroeste Peninsular

Abstract

Having as an objective to identify the local resources and potentialities, against the persistent dislocation and geographical and socioeconomic marginality of the Spanish-Portuguese border, the study seeks to understand if the Luso-Andalusian sector serves as the territorial integration paradigm and as a new spatial organization. W e ha ve analyzed the territorial and productive systems of the regional scenario Huelva-Algarve-Baixo Alentejo, and, locally, the Lower Guadiana. The results demonstrate economic inequality, territorial asymmetry, opposed factors of development and an internal dislocation, without any sign of identity and specialization to help the territorial marketing. Nevertheless, the obtained synthesis converges in a regional construction project, whose keys are: (i) to minimize the effects of population and urbanrelational systems; (ii) the adequacy of the functionality of the border and land uses in a glocal logic, and (iii) the new dynamics at the border and its conduction to the standardization of economic practices.