Areas of Concentration and Research Lines

 

AREA OF CONCENTRATION: REGIONAL AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Research Lines

 1. Socio-Spatial Formation: World / Brazil / Regions

Social division of labor / territorial division of labor, economic development (industry, trade, services and agribusiness), economically dynamic and laggard regions. State and public policies, industrial complexes and agro-industrial clusters, technological trajectories and regulations. Center-periphery relationships, power blocks, Brazilian and global crisis.

2. Dynamics and Rural, Urban and Regional Spaces configurations

Studies related to the assessment of rural, urban and regional spaces considering the interrelationships between social structure, productive dynamics and emergence of new processes and techniques in the use of the territory.

3. Networks, Territorial Organization and Public Policies

Study of the relationship between the structure of network organization – technical (transport and telecommunications), geographic, social and urban – and the territories. Analysis of policies and their instruments of territorial organization in various spatial scales: urban, regional and national.

4. Geography in Educational Processes (common axis Research Line that crosses the two Areas of Concentration)

Discussion about the Geographic Space in educational processes; approaches to natural and social resources in Urban / Rural uses, the teaching of maps and the use of mapping products in pedagogical practices, Geography in Environmental Education.

 

AREA OF CONCENTRATION: USE AND CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES

Research Lines

1. Environmental Analysis

Study of environmental issues in the late twentieth century, environmental issues in Brazil. Assessment of the scientific basis in the studies of the “environment” and the resumption of relations between man and the environment.

2. Coastal Oceanography and Marine Geology

Study of the coastal zone being the main research topics: morpho-sedimentary processes, dynamics and quality of water, zoning and paleogeographic evolution of coastal systems and the processes of planning and integrated coastal zone management.

3. Geological, Geomorphological Processes and Natural Disasters

Studies of Geology and Geomorphology in order to integrate different perspectives that allow to elucidate: a) local and regional geological-geomorphological evolution; b) natural or human-induced disasters and environmental changes.

4. Geography in Educational Processes (common axis Research Line that crosses the two Areas of Concentration)

Discussion about the Geographic Space in educational processes; approaches to natural and social resources in Urban / Rural uses; the teaching of maps and use of mapping products in pedagogical practices; Geography in Environmental Education.


COURSES

Each semester a list of courses is offered to Master and Doctorate degrees indistinctly. The courses are elective and offered according to the interest and availability of post-graduate students, except Epistemology for the Master and Research Seminars for Doctorate, which are mandatory.