Territorial inequality between rural and urban areas has important repercussions within the social and environmental sustainability of the planet. These inequalities are extremely important in countries such as Spain, where intense urbanization processes have taken place in the last decades.
Knowing this problem is a key to design and evaluate the policies of rural or territorial development. The utilization of indicators and indexes implemented into a Geographic Information System (GIS) lets undertaking operatively the dynamic knowledge of rural-urban inequalities. In this work is presented a useful methodology to make rural audits in the peripheral areas of the European Union based in the utilization of indicators and indexes within a GIS environment. As a result, 14 indicators and 3 synthetic indexes are presented, which provide knowledge about the problems within the study area.
