Usually, the relationship between rural areas and Global Climate Change (GCC) has a sectoral point of view. The influence of climate change in agriculture, and in other rural sectorsfisheries, livestock, forestry, and biodiversity and recreationdominates the analysis of adaptation processes of rural populations. Changes in land use and migration are usually two consequences of climate change in densely populated rural areas. These two dynamics are precedents to the effects of climate change in depopulated rural areas. In low-density rural areas, the impact of climate change has differentiated regional processes. In global north, there are two types of depopulated areas: (1) areas with a historical process of depopulation due to socioeconomic changes of a global nature, but with diverse local manifestations, and (2) rural areas that usually had a low density due to their adverse climatic conditions for human activity. The analysis will pay special attention to depopulated areas through a historical process located in Europe, Australia, and North America, in aspects such as the political agenda for these areas, regional politics, and the resistance processes of local populations.