30 articles in this issue
Sergio Rossi Heras, Marcelo de Oliveira SOARES
Since the 1980s, the effects of the El Niño phenomenon have been taken note of seriously from an ecosystemand economic point of view. After the fishing debacle in the 1980s, in countries, such as Peru and Chile,and the phenomena of coral bleaching detecte... see more
Edinusia Moreira Carneiro Santos, Onildo Araujo da Silva
There is a space in the state of Bahia - Brazil, which has been historically differentiated due to the predominance of the productive process of sisal. The use of agave sisalana was able to establish a productivechain for export, which had sufficient impa... see more
Cesar Augusto Martins
The study of the strategies and actions related to fishing industrialization enables the understanding of thetension between natural rhythms (stocks transformed into raw material) and social ones, represented by companies, the State and work. This paper p... see more
Heitor Soares de Farias
The metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has compromised air quality due to the great concentration of sources of air pollutants and the mountains that interferes with the transportation of these pollutants. Despite this, has been receiving biggs ent... see more
Paulo Nascimento Neto, Tomás Moreira
The metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro has compromised air quality due to the great concentration of sources of air pollutants and the mountains that interferes with the transportation of these pollutants. Despite this, has been receiving biggs enterpris... see more
Wagner Vinicius Amorim
We propose a discussion of some approaches and concepts pertaining to the real estate market, real estate and, in more depth, "real estate production" and the idea of ??"places as commodities". These last two notions, supported a selec... see more
Yumi Yamawaki
The Olympic Games allow for rapid urban transformations in the host city due to the significant investments available from public and private sources. In addition to plans for the event, some host cities also propose planning guidelines in order to redire... see more
João Márcio Palheta da Silva, Christian Nunes Silva, Adolfo Oliveira Neto, Flávio Rodrigues do Nascimento
This work undertook an analysis of a territorial, political and economic cut, which we call the Region of Carajás, that is, where the largest mining projects of the Vale company are concentrated in the Southeast region of the state of Pará. The mineral pr... see more
Vanderlei Leopold Magalhães, José Edézio da Cunha, Maria Teresa de Nóbrega
In order to comprehend the hydric dynamics of soils along the slopes, the research took place on a slope from Marechal Cândido Rondon, Paraná. Trenches were open to the macromorphological description, sample collection for physical, chemical and micromorp... see more
José André Villas Boas Mello
This article aims to map the geographical distribution of patents in the Baixada Fluminense region of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), a proxy for the geographical distribution of innovation activities in the region. This research was based on a survey of the Bra... see more
Antonio Thomaz Junior
We have used the concept of hydro-agricultural business in our studies, since we understand that capital, when searching for flat, fertile lands with favorable logistics, also requires water availability and expropriates traditional and native peasant pop... see more
Carlos Cassemiro Casaril
The main objective of this work was to develop an analysis of the social-spatial formation of the Southwest of Paraná, presenting the genesis of the cities that make up the urban networks of Francisco Beltrão and Pato Branco. Various quantitative and qual... see more
Heliofábio Barros Gomes, Lucas Barbosa Cavalcante, Rosiberto Salustiano da Silva Junior, Maurilio Neemias dos Santos
The main purpose was to perform a dynamic analysis in the fields of soil heat flux, albedo and surface temperature, with a 10-year interval, for the region of Ilha Solteira. The data used were obtained through multispectral images from TM Landsat 5’s sens... see more
Rodrigo Coladello Oliveira, Marcos Norberto Boin, Munir Jorge Felício
This paper aims to create a proposal for methodological adaptation of planning, which subsides to a new model of analysis and choice of locations with geoecological potential for installing landfills in the city of Anhumas in the Western Plateau of São Pa... see more
Luciano Schaefer Pereira, Ingrydy Schaefer Pereira
The natural landscape of João Pessoa and its surroundings are among the most beautiful in the country, and has a historic centre with buildings that feature among the oldest in the country. Consequently, the privileged nature associated with the important... see more
Adriana Roseno Monteiro, Antonio Tolrino de Rezende Veras
This article discusses housing in Brazil, which is one of the main urban problems in contemporary times. Housing is a high cost commodity with selective access, thus excluding economically disadvantaged social groups. The segregating character that permea... see more
Leandro Oliveira de Lima, Onofre Pereira Aurélio Neto
This article offers an assessment of the Strategic Development Plan for Brazil’s Centre-West (2007-2020), with special focus on the possible territorial impacts in the region caused by actions implemented by the Centre-West’s Development Superintend... see more
Rita Jaqueline Nogueira Chiapetti
The inspiration for writing this poetic essay was the pictorial-poetic image of the Das Contas River, representing the landscapes drawn along its banks. The essay aims to make a geographical reading of this waterway, interpreting and analyzing its landsca... see more
Marco Túlio Mendonça Diniz, FÁBIO PERDIGÃO VASCONCELOS
Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará stand out among the largest producers of sea salt in Brazil. The entire production of Rio Grande do Norte and much of the production of sea salt of Ceará come from a stretch of concave coastline in relation to the Atlantic ca... see more
Raphael e Silva Girão, Willian Alberto de Aquino Pereira, Pedro José Farias Fernandes
The objective of this study is, by means of geoprocessing techniques, to prepare an accessibility index and use it to evaluate the suitability of the public transport network offered to the various regions and social classes present in the metropolitan ar... see more
Emerson Augusto Baptista, Járvis Campos, José Irineu Rangel Rigotti
The various forms of migration and mobility are factors that have historically played an important role in the socioeconomic development of a country. Among the different types of migration is the focus of this study: return migration, one of the main eve... see more
Jonnathan Francisco Reyes Chaves, R. Masís Campo, G. Brenes Quesada
An analysis of the geomorphological dynamics of the areas between the communities of Valencia and San Isidro de Heredia through field studies, analysis of aerial photographs and thematic mapping was performed. Geomorphological mapping provides the represe... see more
Carlo Alessandro Castellanelli
The CFS (Committee on World Food Security) principles provide a framework to help ensure that investment in agriculture is sustainable, and contributes to inclusive growth and poverty reduction. This paper analyzes the recent phenomenon known as land grab... see more
Adauto Gomes Barbosa
The real estate marketing of the Reserva do Paiva, of the metropolitan region of Recife (RMR) is analyzed from the perspective of commodity aestheticism, alluding to the metaphor of the death logic that permeates the action of capital, which permanently s... see more
Maria Geralda de Almeida
This is a preliminary discussion that seeks to highlight the meanings of flavors and foods to create relationships between mankind and nature, understanding that cultural reasons attribute meanings to the flavors of foods. Anthropological references are t... see more
Jeferson de Castro Vieira
This article analyzes the policies in support of local productive arrangements (APLs) in Brazil and delineate the prospectives for a new generation of APLs considering the National Plan for Regional Development. The analysis is based on literary revisit t... see more
Iara Rafaela Gomes
The logic of the urbanization of coastal areas can be associated with maritime vacationing, whose growth rates in the last decade have been intense and have become fundamental in implementing the leisure practices of the populations of large and medium-si... see more
Marcia Regina Gomes de Jesus Soares, Chisato Oka Fiori, Claudinei Taborda da Silveira, Eloy Kaviski
The present study presents the results of research whose main objective was to use hydrological data on flow to verify the efficiency of the parameter curve number (CN) of rainwater retention in river basins on a regional scale, through multivariate stati... see more
Herve Thery
The “Minha casa, minha vida” (My house, My life) program, the country’s largest housing program in the last 30 years, changed the landscape of many Brazilian cities. Launched in 2009, in the second term of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,... see more
Gustavo Francisco Teixeira Prieto
This article aims to understand the economic, political and territorial foundation of the alliance between land and capital in Brazil from the imposition of the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), to reveal our understanding from three interrelated p... see more