Rural areas, however, can be relatively disadvantaged by their geographical peripherality.
Kenichiro Onitsuka 2019, 'How Social Media Can Foster Social Innovation in Disadvantaged Rural Communities',Sustainabilityhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/9/2697. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The question remains: how to use peripherality for prosperity?
Vaishar Antonín, Šťastná Milada 2016, 'Bojkovice: Transformation of a peripheral micro-region at the Czech-Slovak border',Bulletin of Geography: Socio-Economic Serieshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bog.2016.32.issue-32/bog-2016-0020/bog-2016-0020.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A clinical peripherality index, based on these variables, was derived using factor analysis.
Godden David J, Selvaraj Sivasubramaniam, Swan Gillian M 2008, 'Clinical peripherality: development of a peripherality index for rural health services',BMC Health Services Researchhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/8/23. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Subsequently, we computed comparative indicators for this territorial classification, measuring three dimensions of peripherality for a period of thirty years.
Šimon Martin 2017, 'Multi-scalar geographies of polarisation and peripheralisation: A case study of Czechia',Bulletin of Geography: Socio-Economic Serieshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/bog.2017.37.issue-37/bog-2017-0029/bog-2017-0029.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In the theoretical part of this paper the basic idea of peripherality and the sense of socio-economic development are explained.
Magdalena Tusińska 2012, 'SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN UNION'S PERIPHERY', Ekonomia i Prawo.http://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma//index.php/EiP/article/view/499. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Scholarly attempts to nuance popular associations of islands with peripherality and cities with centrality reflect awareness of underlying power relationships.
Adam Grydehoj 2014, 'Constructing a centre on the periphery: urbanization and urban design in the islandcity of Nuuk, Greenland', Island Studies Journalhttp://www.islandstudies.ca/sites/islandstudies.ca/files/ISJ-9-2-Grydehoj_0.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This study aims to capture another equally important dimension of this phenomenon, namely the perception of marginality and peripherality.
Máliková Lucia, Farrell Maura, McDonagh John 2016, 'Perception of Marginality and Peripherality in an Irish Rural Context', Quaestiones Geographicaehttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/quageo.2016.35.issue-4/quageo-2016-0037/quageo-2016-0037.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)