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Declínio Populacional nas Cidades de Portugal – Onde e Porquê

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  • Maria Helena Guimarães

    (Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO) Landscape Dynamics and Social Processes Group - Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Mediterrânicas (ICAAM))

  • Ana Paula Barreira

    (Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO))

  • Thomas Panagopoulos

    (Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics (CIEO))

Abstract

Na era do crescimento urbano pode parecer paradoxal que algumas cidades estejam em declínio populacional. Contudo, ambos os fenómenos são dois lados da mesma moeda. Este artigo identifica o declínio populacional nas cidades em Portugal. Observando a evolução demográfica de 1991 a 2011 verificou-se que 17 cidades estão a perder população: 9 persistentemente e 8 desde de 2001. Este grupo inclui as duas maiores cidades portuguesas: Lisboa e Porto que apresentam 17% e 21% de declínio respetivamente. Após esta primeira triagem, a história de cada cidade e dados socioeconómicos são cruzados (ex.: taxas de emprego, características da habitação, e desemprego, entre outras) permitindo propor as seguintes razões para o declínio populacional das cidades: a suburbanização, as transformações económicas, o efeito satélite e os fatores ambientais. Porém, diversas cidades apresentam uma mistura de razões que explicam o declínio da sua população. Esta análise exploratória deverá ser complementada com estudos mais aprofundados.

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  • Maria Helena Guimarães & Ana Paula Barreira & Thomas Panagopoulos, 2015. "Declínio Populacional nas Cidades de Portugal – Onde e Porquê," RPER, Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional, issue 40, pages 23-41, October.
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    DOI: 10.59072/rper.vi40.367
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