DGEO Laboratories
DGEO Research Groups
Advanced Methods of Geospatial Analysis
Advanced Methods of Geospatial Analysis
The group's activities are guided by the following research lines: Space Diffusion and Time Cartography, Space Epidemiology, Space Modeling and Environmental Risk Mapping and Space Remote Detection and Earth Mappings.
Analysis, planning and management of hydrographic basins with an emphasis on areas subject to floods and droughts
Analysis, planning and management of hydrographic basins with an emphasis on areas subject to floods and droughts
This research group is involved in the execution of projects related to the study of floods and droughts and their relation to the participative management of hydrographic basins, in particular the performance of hydrographic basin committees.
Geography of International Relations: State, Economy, Land and Regional Integration
Geography of International Relations: State, Economy, Land and Regional Integration
The purpose of the group´s research is to address geoeconomic and geopolitical phenomena in Latin America using the nation-state scales and the supra-national scale (which includes the countries of the subcontinent) as a reference. Taking land formation as a analytical category, the group aims to contribute to the discussion on sovereignty and the regulatory capacity of the Latin-American countries. The main goals are: contributing to the discussion on the main changes in the role of the State and economic activities, the impact of the same on the land and the social consequences of the same; in addition to discussing the different integration processes underway on the subcontinent, observing the key players (governments, corporate companies, civil society, international organisations), with their alliances, games of interests and conflicts, as well as means of cooperation. The research also focuses on production infrastructure, security and defence, economic development and natural resources.
Geography: Epistemology, History and the Environment
Geography: Epistemology, History and the Environment
The research group entitled Geography: Epistemology, History and Environment is composed of geographers and other social scientists who are concerned about the issue of geographic space and its representations, in accordance with the assertion that geographic space can be problematized in a number of ways and manners and regardless of the line of formation or speculation. As such, this group hopes to problematize the issues in relation to the history and epistemology of geography and the issue of the environment, based on dialogue between geography and the human sciences and Earth Sciences. As a main line of discussion the group strives to address the issue of the formation of the geographic episteme based on the cut of nature and how it was incorporated and transformed in the geographic debate and in the context of the philosophical formation of geography and the human sciences. The immediate development of this debate is the issue of empiricization and the theoretical, methodological discussions and the models in physical geography. Within this context, we attempt to specify the debate using geomorphology as a reference. Hence, works, colloquiums and seminars are produced aimed at problematizing and including the issue of nature in geography and physical geography within the philosophical, epistemological, methodological and even literary debate, assessing the breakdown of the same in terms of creating a geographic structure and its developments in the environment and in the teaching of geography.
Geography: Geopolitics of knowledge, Geographies of authoritarianism, Histories and Epistemologies of Knowledge and of Geographic Science
Geography: Geopolitics of knowledge, Geographies of authoritarianism, Histories and Epistemologies of Knowledge and of Geographic Science
The research group entitled Geography: Epistemology, History and Environment is formed by geographers and other social scientists who are concerned with the question of geographical space and its representations, according to the assertion that the geographic space can be problematized in various forms and ways and independent of the line of formation or speculation. Thus, this group hopes to problematise issues relating to the history and epistemology of geography and the environmental issue, from a dialogue between geography, the humanities and the Earth Sciences. As an axis of discussion the group seeks to address the question of the formation of the geographical episteme from the cut of nature and how it was incorporated and transformed in the geographic debate and in the context of the philosophical formation of geography and human sciences. The immediate development of this debate is the issue of empirization and theoretical, methodological and modeling discussions in physical geography. Within this context, we seek to specify the debate by reference to geomorphology. Thus, works, colloquiums and seminars are being produced that seek to problematize and insert the question of nature in geography and physical geography within the philosophical, epistemological, methodological and even literary debate assessing the development of the same in terms of the constitution of the geographical structure and its developments in the environment and in the teaching of geography.
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DGEO
Líderes
Antonio Carlos Vitte, Kalina Salaib Springer
Geosciences and Society
Geosciences and Society
This research group aims to investigate how knowledge of geosciences can be brought to formal education and to the general public and the implications of these processes for society. This in the most diverse areas: adaptation to environmental changes, natural risks, urban planning, management of water and other natural resources, production cycles and management of the territory.
Geotechnologies Applied to Land Management
Geotechnologies Applied to Land Management
The work conducted by the group is geared to the development of research of a theoretical and practical nature with a view to the implementation of geotechnologies (Digital Cartography, Remote Sensing, Global Navigation Satellite Systems - GNSS, Geographic Information Systems - GIS) in the different activities comprising land management. Over the years the group has helped train undergraduate and post-graduate human resources, supplying subsidies for public policies, producing different results in the form of reports, undergraduate course conclusion work, master´s dissertations and PhD theses, producing new knowledge within the scope of geographic science.
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DGEO
Líderes
Lindon Fonseca Matias, Ederson do Nascimento
Group of Studies in Political Economy of the Territory
Group of Studies in Political Economy of the Territory
Research project approved at CAPES (2020/2022). CAPES Entre Mares - Combat and analysis of the impact of oil spill on Brazilian beaches. Title: Right to the Territorial Sea: the political economy of the Brazilian coastal cities Validity: 01/2019 to 01/2023 FAPESP (procedure number 2021/00183-4). Title: Right to the Sea: the coastal economy of the Grande São Luís Metropolitan Region (MA). Validity: 12/2022 to 11/2024
Logistics, agriculture and the use of Brazilian land
Logistics, agriculture and the use of Brazilian land
The group´s activities focus on the following lines of research: Logistics of agricultural products in Brazil; the regulation of transport and electrical energy systems in Brazil and information technologies and Brazilian land.
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DGEO
Líderes
Ricardo Abid Castillo, Ricardo Mendes Antas Junior
Research and Practice Workshop in Teaching Geography
Research and Practice Workshop in Teaching Geography
The aim of the group is to act in teaching, research and extension in the area of Teaching Geography, with their interactions in the areas of Humanities and Geosciences.
Soil, Paleosols and Landscape Dynamics
Soil, Paleosols and Landscape Dynamics
This group works in 3 main areas, with a focus on pedogenesis and weathering processes: 1. Pedogenesis of current soil and the relationship of the same with forms of relief and archaeological sites; 2. Quaternary and pre-quaternary paleosols; 3. Paleosurfaces and the association of the same with soils and alteration profiles, striving to understand the evolution of the long-term geomorphological landscape. The group is currently involved in work in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil (the states of Piaui, Bahia, Tocantins, Goias, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Parana).
The dynamics of landscapes in coastal environments
The dynamics of landscapes in coastal environments
The objective of the work linked to this research group, refer to the research and analysis of the morphogenetic processes that govern the organization of the landscape in the coastal environment, considering also the impacts related to the use and anthropic occupation of these environments.
