Publication: Las Islas Canarias ¿Una región aislada?
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2001
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Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles
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Geográficamente africanas, biogeográficamente macaronésicas y subtropicales, y culturalmente europeas, en particular mediterráneas, las siete islas canarias han basado su devenir socioeconómico en una privilegiada posición geoestratégica y climática en medio del Atlántico, primero como escala entre Europa y sus territorios de ultramar situados a ambos lados de ese océano y, recientemente, como estación balnearia marítima de los ciudadanos de la Unión Europea. Considerada por esta instancia político administrativa como área insular ultraperiférica, para propiciar su mayor cohesión económica y social con el resto de las regiones europeas continentales, ¿hasta qué punto se ajusta dicha adscripción administrativa a la realidad de la región canaria? Sin negar los aspectos negativos de la lejanía y de la insularidad ¿realmente están aisladas las islas canarias? Su pasado y presente parecen acreditar lo contrario.
Geographically african, biogeographically macaronesian and subtropical, and culturally european, especially mediterranean, the seven canary islands have based their evolution on a geostrategically and climatically privileged situation in the middle of the Atlantic. Firstly, as a port of call between Europe and its ultramarine territories, located on either side of his ocean, and more recently, as a maritime spa resort for the citizens of European Union. Considered by EU as an ultraperipheral insular area, in order to stimulate greater economics andsocial cohesion with the reste of the EU continental regions, to what extent does this administrative category correspond to the reality of the canarian region? Not denyng the negative aspects of insularity and isolation, are the Canary Islands really isolated? Their past and their present semm to prove the contrary.
Geographically african, biogeographically macaronesian and subtropical, and culturally european, especially mediterranean, the seven canary islands have based their evolution on a geostrategically and climatically privileged situation in the middle of the Atlantic. Firstly, as a port of call between Europe and its ultramarine territories, located on either side of his ocean, and more recently, as a maritime spa resort for the citizens of European Union. Considered by EU as an ultraperipheral insular area, in order to stimulate greater economics andsocial cohesion with the reste of the EU continental regions, to what extent does this administrative category correspond to the reality of the canarian region? Not denyng the negative aspects of insularity and isolation, are the Canary Islands really isolated? Their past and their present semm to prove the contrary.
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Región, Isla, Insularidad, Aislamiento, Lejanía, Diversidad paisajística, Poligenia, Adscripción mediterránea o atlántica, Continentes en miniaturas, Turismo, Contrastes intra e interinsulares, Cosmopolitismo, Endemicidad y relictos biológicos, Ultraperiferia, Region, Island, Insularity, Isolation, Environmental diversity, Polygenesis, Atlantic or mediterranean cultures, Miniature continents, Tourism, Intra and interinsular contrasts, Cosmopolitanism, Endemisms and biological relicts, Ultraperiphery
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Morales, G. Las Islas Canarias ¿Una región aislada?. Boletín de la A.G.E. N. 32 (2001), pp. 155-175