Carlos Ferrás Sexto (

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city has its origin in the shrine of Saint James the Great, now the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as the destination of the Way of St ...

, Galicia, 1965) is a Galician

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and academic. Carlos Ferrás is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography of the

University of Santiago de Compostela , established = , type = Public , budget = €228 million (2011) , rector = Prof. Dr. Antonio López Díaz , city = Santiago de Compostela , state = Galicia , country = Spain , undergrad = 23,835 , postgrad = 1,716 , doctoral = 2,697 ...

. He is also the director of th
Socio-Territorial Research Group
and th
Centre for Euro-Regional Studies Galicia/North Portugal
Ferrás Sexto completed his PhD under the supervision of

Patrick O'Flanagan Patrick O'Flanagan (born 1947 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish geographer and academic. Career He is emeritus professor of thDepartment of Geographyat University College Cork, Ireland. He was the former Head of this department. At present, he c ...

, conducting a comparative study on the parallel evolution and rural change between Ireland and Galicia. This work earned him the title of ''Doctor Europeus''. After his Irish experience, and before returning to his native Galicia, further research took him to Mexico, where he taught at the

University of Guadalajara The University of Guadalajara ( es, Universidad de Guadalajara) is a public higher education institution in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The university has several high schools as well as graduate and undergraduate campuses, which are distr ...

. He has studied extensively the fields of economic geography, cultural and historical geography, Atlantic Europe,

counter urbanization Counterurbanization, or deurbanization, is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas. It is, like suburbanization, inversely related to urbanization. It first occurred as a reaction to inner-city depriva ...

and

suburbanization Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl. As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses out of the city centers, low-density, peripheral urba ...

, concept of garden city, rural settlements, processes of rural change and the use of new technologies applied to the development of rural areas, including digital literacy

He also is a specialist in the so-called "territorial marketing",El territorio como mercancia, 2001, by Carlos Ferras et al.
/ref> leading a number of innovative development projects such a
''Granxa Familiar''
an
''Galicia Auténtica''

Partial bibliography

* ''Cambio Rural na Europa Atlántica. Os casos de Galicia e Irlanda (1970-1990)''. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela e Xunta de Galicia, Compostela, 1996. * ''A Contraurbanización: un achegamento teórico e estudio de casos en Irlanda, España y México ''. Universidad de Guadalajara (México) e Xunta de Galicia, Guadalajara-Jalisco, 1998. * "Cambio social e territorial en Galicia, ¿de país rural a cidade xardín?", in ''Semanata'' no. 9, pp. 55–78, Compostela, 1998. * ''Santiago Apóstol en México: culto y significado en el Reino de la Nueva Galicia''. Xunta de Galicia, 1998. * (and Xoán Paredes) "Reflexiones sobre justicia social y desarrollo alternativo en América Latina. ¿Desarrollo local, desarrollo sostenible y/o ecosocialismo?", in ''Seminario internacional sobre perspectivas de desarrollo en Iberoamérica'', pp. 81–96, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1999
(*.pdf)
* (and Souto González) "Cidade atlántica e organización territorial en Galicia", in ''Grial'' no. 155, pp. 507–528, 2002. * (et alii) "Un novo escenario para a economía galega, minifundio sostible e agricultura familiar ecolóxica: análise do caso da cooperativa Feiraco", in ''Congreso de Economía de Galicia'', pp. 853–865, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2002. * "Reflexión acerca del significado de la obra del profesor O'Flanagan para la Geografía de Galicia", in ''Xeográfica'' no. 1, pp. 199–203, Compostela, 2001. * (et alii) ''Novas tecnoloxías e economía cultural'', Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2005. * "Un ideario de cidade en rede policéntrica ubicada nun grande xardín: o caso da eurorrexión Galicia-Norte de Portugal", in ''Revista de Estudos Euro-Rexionais', pp. 27–38, 2006. * (et alii) ''Sociedade da información en espacios periféricos: novas formas de exclusión social'', Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2006. * (et alii) "Cultura e novas tecnoloxías. A experiencia de Infobrion.com", in ''Encontros Cultura e Concellos'', pp. 139–156, Consello da Cultura, Galega, Compostela, 2006. * (et alii) "Fronte aos localismos, eurorrexión", in ''Tempos Novos'' no. 155, pp. 67–70, 2010.

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Socio-Territorial Research Group, USC, directed by Carlos FerrásCentre for Euro-Regional Studies, directed by Carlos Ferrás

Partial bibliography

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