Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 24 ISSUE 3
Written by Óscar Luis ALONSO CIENFUEGOS, Ana Isabel OTERO SÁNCHEZ

In this article we will use the approach and methodology of complex networks to analyze the territorial distribution of the public offer of secondary education in Asturias, based on the different population centers, which are the different nodes of the network, and the educational services that can connect them. Through the analysis of its structure and network topology, we will extract information that can be part of and incorporated into a complex socio-technological system that helps us understand the dynamics of Asturian territorial development. We will pay a special attention to the urban or rural nature of the nodes of the network and the implications in this regard that we can observe, due to the condition that the availability of the educational offer supposes for the development of the towns and their inhabitants. The results show a network with a scale-free topology that gives rise to consider possible alternatives that are more balanced from a territorial point of view.

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