13 articles in this issue
Comissão Editorial
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Jörn Seemann
The Dutch cartographer and mathematician Gerardus Mercator is renowned for his maps, atlas editions and his famous map projection of 1569 that, originally as a maritime navigation aid, turned into a model for many world maps. Radical geographers condemned... see more
Hervé Théry
Os transportes aéreos encontram no Brasil condições particularmente favoráveis. A exploração de um anuário, regularmente publicado pela Direção da Aviação Civil, permite dar uma idéia dos desempenhos globais do setor e das companhias que o constitue... see more
Inês Aguiar de Freitas
The fundamental aim of this paper is to show that the jesuits who were in Brazil during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries were able to produce works of important geographic contents which cannot go on being unknown or ignored by the present time geographe... see more
Iná Elias de Castro
The perspective that the problem of differences and the complexity of territory results from the availability and from the quality of the institutions defines a field of geographical research about the nature of the processes that rule the exercise of cit... see more
Rubenilson Brazão Teixeira
The present paper is a reflection on different terms utilised to define urban centres in Brazil, especially, but not exclusively, along the colonial period. The Portuguese colonisers had specific names to designate their settlements, according to the poli... see more
Denise Elias
This article intends to highlight the changes occured at the Cearense agriculture during the last two decades, identifying their main characteristics, weaknesses and trends. It develops a discussion about the recently promoted modernization at the rural l... see more
Maria Geralda de Almeida
A biodiversidade é uma invenção discursiva recente, resultante de uma situação concreta em face da crescente destruição da natureza e da perda da diversidade ecológica. Esta preocupação nova com a natureza traz ao debate a sua instrumentalização e uma rec... see more
Bernard Hétu
O presente ensaio esboça reflexão sobre o papel do geógrafo físico, especificamente o geomorfólogo, na prevenção e na gestão dos riscos naturais. Nele serão abordados os riscos ligados à dinâmica externa inundações, cheias, erosão do litoral, movimentos d... see more
Ronaldo Antonio Gonçalves, Loreci Gislaine de Oliveira Lehugeur, João Wagner de Alencar Castro, Ângelo Eurico Silva Pedroto
This research show a preliminary proposition of coastal aeolian forms of the east side of coastal plain of Maranhão state. These coastal aeolian deposits are the biggest of the South America knowed as Lençóis Maranhenses. Field dates analysis, aerophotogr... see more
Vládia Pinto Vidal de Oliveira, Carlos Gil de Carrasco
The studied region is a crystalin massif located in the North-east semi-arid area (“sertão” ) of Brazil. The cartography of the massif allowed to decompose its territory in sequential landscapes unities, simultaneously from larger to smaller and from hete... see more
Haim Tsoar, Sebastiaan M. Arens
Coastal sand dunes form an important and unique system that can be mobile or fixed. Vegetation on sand dunes is known to be meagre and does not increase with increase in rainfall and temperature as it does with plants on other soils. The reasons for such ... see more
Maria do Ceú de Lima, Shirley Carvalho Dantas, Sandra Helena Silva de Aquino