Rurality has proved very difficult to define in an all-embracing
manner for three important reasons involving functions, dynamics
and variation (Cloke, 1985). Rural areas are undergoing considerable
spatio-temporal change due to social, economic and technological
developments, and especially the interaction of various
non-quantitative elements affecting rural development. This kind
of change, to some extent, increases the difficulty in our understanding
the rural development types. In general, rural issues are
closely related to the marginalization of rural economic, political,
social and cultural development, which occurs differently at the