Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:384

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX384

Authors:
del Amo Benito, Roberto

Abstract:
This research work is divided in three sections. The first section is an introduction to the theoretical aspects; the second one explains the process of industrialization and the growth of tourist and tertiary sector in the whole in the land. Finally, the third section is based on the geodemographic changes, which are the purpose of the research. This working paper offers some conclusions and a long bibliography at the end. The information has basically been gathered from the actual Census and the List of Official Population carried out by the Town Halls.Bearing in mind the hypothesis which states that economic changes lead to social and demographic alterations, this working paper focuses on the process undergone in the Tarragona-Reus conurbation (which is the core of the metropolitan area known as Camp de Tarragona) starting off in the 1960s, as a result of presence of the petrochemical industry and the development of other activities of the tertiary one, more particularly the thriving tourist activity on the Costa Dorada. All there economic changes are going to bear out a whole transformation both on the land and in the way of live of its inhabitants. Within this global framework, the present Thesis is focused on the demographic changes.We must distinguish two stages in the process of economic and demographic transformation in this territory.The first stage goes from the 1960s up to the 1970s. The thriving economic activity in that period is triggered by the Government's Plan de Estabilizacion along with investments from abroad and it also allows the creation of industrial plots and the presence of foreign petrochemical factories, in addition to local public investments. This process coincides with a period of propitious international situation. The economic developme