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Rural settlements (RS) are references of the territorial reality of the town settlement and constitute a set of social and cultural constructions. Its delimitation is one of the most important and complicated tasks within territorial planning. This paper presents a comparison of methodologies to select the most important criteria for the delimitation of the rural settlements in Galicia (northwest of Spain), considering social, environmental and landscaping aspects. Due to the subjective nature of many of the criteria involved, an expert judgment was designed involving 12 decision-makers, experts from different disciplines related to rural planning, who evaluated the weight or importance of a scheme of 108 criteria spread over three levels, through two methodologies: the scoring method and the multicriteria decision making methodology analytical hierarchy process (AHP). The results indicated that the AHP method was the best methodology for obtaining weights in these criteria compared to the scoring method. The built structure criterion was the only one that had the best result according to the scoring method. The research allows concluding that in both methodologies social criteria obtained better weights than environmental and landscape criteria.
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AHP Rural planning Rural settlements
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Barbosa-Brandão, Vasco; Pérez-Rodríguez, Fernando; Rojo-Alboreca, Alberto; Ferreira-Neto, José Ambrósio (2018). Selection of social and environmental criteria for the delimitation of rural settlements in Galicia, Spain. Revista de la Facultad de Agronomia. ISSN 0378-7818. 35:1, p. 108-126