Les Espaces ruraux de Lituanie: des dynamiques spatiales hétérogènes?

ENThis article aims to renew and reinterpret the reading of rural recomposition, in its most varied forms, through a comparative analysis on the scale of a country that once belonged to the Soviet Union and is now a member of the EU: Lithuania. More broadly, the contribution proposes to measure the share of endogenous and exogenous factors explaining the contemporary rural recomposition by presenting a multivariate statistical mapping at the scale of rural provinces (NUTS 4) which will account for the complexity and spatial differentiation of the forms of socio-economic integration of Lithuanian rural territories. How are they reflected spatially and what forms do they take depending on the nature of the region’s rural areas and their proximity to the city? Keywords: rural area, Lithuania, typology, demography, economy.