Incidencia de la COVID-19 en la dinámica social y territorial de Castilla y León y su reflejo en los casos contrastados de Las Merindades (Burgos) y Tierra de Campos

(Artículo de monográfico)

Abstract

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 and its consequences of forced confinement for the population highlighted the problems generated by the lack of quality open spaces in most dwellings in concentrated urban spaces. The desire for gardens and open spaces and the need to get out of these conditions generated, from the very beginning, a significant movement of interest in low-density spaces, especially peri-urban edges and rural areas, as a housing alternative. It seemed that this phenomenon was going to bring about a drastic change in the behaviour of the population and could reverse, or at least alleviate, the progressive depopulation of our rural areas. With a certain perspective, we can now analyse whether these movements have indeed meant a change in trend or whether they have been a temporary movement that has already been exhausted, as well as their real impact on the dynamics of their population. As an example of low-density rural areas, but with very different economic and physical characteristics, we will analyse this process in the regions of Las Merindades and Tierra de Campos, both significant examples of the rural areas of Castilla y León.