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The education and the divulgation of the geosciences are poorly disseminated, not only in the educational range, but also for the society in general. Among the geosciences, there is the geodiversity, which had its concept introduced in the 90’s decade and has been growing worldwide ever since; however, unlike the biodiversity that is broadly disclosed for all society, the geodiversity is unknown for a large percentage of the population, even though such knowledge is very necessary for the understanding of the evolution and dynamic processes of the Earth. Bringing environmental education into the geodiversity divulgation might make the abiotic aspects, which are often forgotten, stand out. This work aims to introduce geodiversity themes in the schoolroom through a board game, illustrating the geodiversity elements (rocks, minerals, fossils, land forms, soils) and some places with geotouristic potencial and better visibility in the State of Paraíba, such as Vale dos Dinossauros (Dinosaur Valley), Lajedo de Pai Mateus, Pedra da Boca, Pedra do Ingá and the Cabo Branco cliffs, as well as verify if the methodology applied appears to be an efficient tool of learning. It is expected to contribute, for the teaching-learning process, in a fun and pleasant way, awakening the curiosity and interest to learn about geodiversity and geosciences. In order to obtain the data used in the search, a visit to the Municipal School Antonia Luna Lisboa, located in the county of Rio Tinto-PB, took place, in which the aforementioned exercises where put into practice. To validate the learning improvement achieved, an analysis through tests was held, where a pretest and an after test to assess the knowledge of the student were applied, to ascertain if the methodology contributed significantly as a tool of education of the geodiversity. The methodology was well-accepted by the students, and it was verified that the answers of the after test were satisfactory. Through the review of the results, it was found that new pedagogical alternatives are necessary for the motivation and learning of the students. Games can and must be used as a pedagogical resource, in a way that the students learn while playing; more interactive classes using slides with images also contribute for the teaching-learning of the students.

In Brazil, capital extreme events of precipitation are often broadcasted by press due to their big exploder force of environmental impacts into society. This work has the goal of identify and assess the daily capital extreme events of rain from the application of the stastistic methodology of precipitation capital levels in the cearence cities of Crato, Fortaleza and Sobral (highly urbanized and located into different geo-environmental contexts) facing factors and different situations which hinder the identification of an event as an extreme event. From January of 1980 to july of 2017 has been identified events of huge intensity, connected atmospheric systems and related impacts. Most of these events has occurred between february and may, usually connected to the intertropical convergence zone – ICZ. Among the registered impacts stand out floodings, homeless, injured people and dead ones. Even if these situations occur, planning and suitable management may contribute to implementation of adaptation and prevention strategies.

In this article, we discuss the importance of fieldwork in the development of teaching-learning processes in geography in basic education and in higher education. For this, we analyze two experiments, focusing on the analysis of the mediation performed by the field notebooks in this process. The first one refers to the work done with classes of Elementary and Middle School in the School of Application of the School of Education of USP. The second one deals with fieldwork carried out in the discipline of Regional Geography of Brazil I - Sul, of the Department of Geography of USP. The analysis was built from the follow-up of the different stages of elaboration and execution of the field works, discussing and problematizing the senses of the field notebooks in each of them. At the end of the research, it was possible to perceive the importance of the field notebook in the analyzed works, since, constructed in a collective and collaborative way, they reinforce the interdisciplinary character of knowledge and the educational process. Moreover, in the experience developed in higher education, it was possible to verify the importance of future teachers to appropriate this methodology so that they can defend it, both politically and epistemologically, in basic education.

This study investigates the areas of carnauba palm forest that were removed in the municipality of Campo Maior, checking the progress and change in vegetation coverage, rainfall rates, the composition of GDP in the sectors of the economy (primary, secondary and tertiary), population density and the rate of urbanization. To this end, there were used images available in the Embrapa site (MODIS / NDVI) from the period of 2002 to 2016. Data on GDP, population density and urbanization rate were obtained from the IBGE site. In addition, there were conducted surveys on-site in areas of carnauba palm forest and informal talks with representatives of local government. It was concluded that there was suppression of carnaubas to implementation of real estate projects in the urban area, consistent with the economic and demographic growth of the municipality. The images of NDVI of 2005 and 2016 reflected this modifications.

The paper deals with representations about the city of Salvador - BA in contemporary Brazilian cinema, focusing on the public space of the city, its main aspects and socio - spatial contradictions. The inventory of twenty-five films presented contributes to the line of research of the Geographies of Cinema, in structuring in Brazil and in the world, because it deals with the analysis of public space in contemporary Brazilian films, a topic still little explored in Brazil.

This article deals with the trajectory of the solid waste in different historical periods, configuring them as a constructive element of geographical space. The intention to bring the theme from the timeline perspective, is marked out in the conviction of the inseparability of the categories of space and time and its importance in understanding a geographical phenomenon. The methodological support of this research relied on the documentary type of research involving literature, consultation of secondary sources such as books, academic journals, dissertations and theses on the subject. The results presented and discussed in this paper indicated that the production of waste is adjacent to historical time, reflects societies and techniques that generated them, and is a permanent part of the dialectical process of spatial formation.

La création de la réserve de collecte (réserve extrativiste ou resex en abrégé) marine de Canavieiras-BA en 2006 fut le résultat des mobilisations de pêcheurs artisanaux et de collecteuses de mollusques et crustacés, avec l’appui d’institutions de la société civile et d’organismes du gouvernement fédéral. En tant qu’oeuvre d’action politique et de savoirs, la création de la resex déclencha d’autres processos de transformations sociales et politiques positives. La consolidation communautaire et la création de la cohésion dans l’organisation du tissu social se distinguent. Ce mûrissement et la créatin d’un corps politique firent surgir aussi des remises en question du modèle de co-gestion et du comportement de l’organisme environnemental, ICMBio, eu égard à ses co-responsabilités dans la gestion de l’aire protégée. Ainsi, il existe un débat ouvert. La question de l’autonomie des communautés traditionnelles dans la gestion territoriale se pose pour les bénéficiaires de la resex à Canavieiras tel le désir d’une profonde ressignification, ce qui cria un retour aux revendications présentes parmi les communautés traditionnelles avant l’adoption du Système National d’Unités de Conservation (SNUC). Les rôles de l’action politique et de l’éducation sont essentiels pour les altérations nécessaires dans le fonctionnement de l’ICMBio et dans le comportements de ses analystes environnementaux. Il est fondamental que l’Etat brésilien admette le sens de l’Etre et ses géographicités pour penser sa collaboration dans la gestion des resex.

This article tries to bring out elements for reflections on the concept/ idea of patrimonial territory in traditional populations, with a case study conducted in the Ilhabela County, São Paulo State, Brazil, in the Curral neighborhood/beach, of caiçara population, through qualitative interviews and a bibliographic review. By using observation, interviews, theoretical discussion and analysis, the study concluded that the concept of territory is of extreme importance to public policies at several levels and that, above all, it is necessary to try to understand whether the idea the locals have about their territory allows a change of focus from a study about the local territory to a study of the territory based on the experiences of the local people in a necessary dialogue relationship.

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The metropolis is a reality in Brazil, however production of this form occurs at different rhythms and temporalities and it reproduces the center-periphery relationship. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze the spatial aspects of metropolization in the capital of Maranhão state. The centralization of wealth and population, the fragmentation of the urban fabric with the constitution of nuclei with different levels of centrality and the production of new territories with the implementation of housing units in metropolitan municipalities were the main characteristics of the phenomenon studied.

The interstate road transport of passengers is an economic activity that clarifies the territorial division of labor, it illustrates part of displacement throughout the country and therefore the joints between different centers. With the advancement of Brazilian urbanization and the expansion of the passengers demand the road passenger transport follows these processes, as it exerts a central social function by making diverse connections between distinct points in the national territory and ultimately reflects the dynamics of the urban network and the spatial interactions occurring in it. In view of such prerogatives, the municipality of Londrina, located in the northern part of the Paraná state, functions as a node of the interstate road transport of passengers, because it is the second most populous city in the state of Paraná. There are dozens of interstate lines that reach states in the North, Central-West, Southeast and South macro-regions, with greater participation of the latter two.

This article attempts to shed light on the processes of production/reproduction of urban space in Palmas, the designed capital of Tocantins state, Brazil, particularly with regards to housing. Such processes involve acknowledging social and spatial practices carried out by a group of agents who, since the city’s implementation in 1989, have acted to ensure land appropriation, hence underlining their role in hegemonizing political power and in bringing capital accumulation into effect. These social and spatial practices have transformed Palmas’ urban design, producing a city that is dispersed and discontinuous, as well as socially and spatially fragmented.

The aim of this article is to present the main ideas of Florestan Fernandes and Raymundo Faoro, with respect to patrimonialism and bureaucratic state and to point out possible convergences of these ideas. As a methodological procedure, this research was based on literature and empirical data to identify the evidence of the presence of this phenomenon in the current Brazilian reality. When the data and analyzes on the Brazilian tax structure, the penal system and the expenditures with the national political “elite” are observed, signs that the patrimonialism and the bureaucratic state are still part of the Brazilian reality can be verified, even after the “modernization” happened and, that the analyzes of Florestan Fernandes and Raymundo Faoro are very valid to explain contemporary Brazil.

This research realizes the application of the model, proposed by Jansen (2013), in the landscape in the contact between the Rio das Velhas Plain and the western edge of the Southern Espinhaço Ridge. This area is a representative sample of wide geo-ecological diversity due to its location. The research was based on the concepts of landscape and geosystems of Bertrand (2004), guiding field work of Couto and Travassos (2016), and allowed the model’s application of natural and environmental vulnerabilities. From west to east, from the municipality of Corinto to Diamantina, there is the Rio das Velhas Plain, the Karst of Monjolos, the Serra do Cabral and the Southern Espinhaço Ridge, the latter compartment is made of 03 facies (West Face, Interfluve, and East Face). These geosystems confirm the geo-ecological diversity that exists in the contact between the Rio das Velhas Plain and the western edge of the Southern Espinhaço Ridge. The Karst of Monjolos is the most fragile geosystem and susceptible to impacts, while the Southern Espinhaço Ridge has the most resistant physical attributes with vegetation cover fragile.

In the past decades, Amazon has emerged as a geographical area of great importance for the global connection of crime. In this context, the cities of the Amazon, above all, the metropolises Belém and Manaus, where alternative territorialities are becoming a spacial substrate. This article has the objective of analyze the network-territories and zone territories of narcotraffic in the metropolis of Belém. This research is part of the result from a doctoral thesis defended in the Postdoctoral Program in Sustainable Development of the Humid Tropics. This work’s methodology is based on bibliographic research, documentary analysis, field work and systematic observations. The territories of narcotraffic in Belém are geographical configurations that mark the history of today’s urban conflicts.

The main purpose of this article is to present the results of a reflection on challenges and propositions about fieldwork that are part of research based on Cultural Geography. The researched surveys are focused on the religious phenomena expressed in space and in constant movement. The main question in this study is: how to read the various aspects of religious manifestations collaboratively to the studies? Starting from this questioning and supported in a bibliography that perpasses by classical and contemporary authors of the Cultural Geography we elaborate a theoretical-methodological proposition that divides the fieldworks in three distinct moments: pre-field, in-field and post-field. Therefore, it is proposed to think the fieldworks in Cultural Geography considering this temporal trilogy as support in the reading of the scenarios-symbols that are, in turn, a theoretical-methodological construction that classifies the religious scenarios according to the present movements and the symbologies that they carry, namely: Statue-Totem; ii) Party-Ritual; iii) Itinerary-Sacred Way; iv) Grotto-Altar; v) Temple-Home; and vi) Event Jubilee. It is considered in this construction the theoretical reflection in dialogue with the empirical efforts, thus, these categories, although separated typologically interact deeply each other.

Speculations on the concept of the term “region” as a geographic category of analysis are abundant and diversified in the specialized literature, which demonstrates its importance and actuality. Nevertheless, the use of the term recurrently presents epistemological challenges when faced with contemporary themes, such as the possibilities of cultural regionalizations. This article aims to discuss the validity of those regionalizations considering the paradigms of postcolonialism – which bases its analysis of culture from a modern anthropological bias –, and, at the same time, to present its cartographic alternatives and challenges.

The mineral extraction of Earth-flax is the main economic source of the city of Minaçu, located in the north of the State of Goiás, since its foundation has developed thanks to the Cana Brava mine. Nowadays, the city is uncertain about the future, due to the declaration of unconstitutionality of the Second article of the federal law 9.055/1995 which permitted the extraction, industrialization, commercialization and the distribution of earth-flax in the variety chrysotile in the country, decision dated of the day 29, November of 2017 from the Federal Court of Justice. This article objective to promote the discussion about the economic dependence of the city and it positioning, facing to the mining SAMA, defending “the controlled use of Earth-flax”, making clear that the economic and market reasons are more important, face to the development of multiple scientific studies in different places around the world showing the malfunctions to the human health.

With the objective to discussing some of the Strategic Telegraphic Lines from Mato Grosso to Amazonas contributions – CLTEMTA (1907 to 1915) to the processes of appropriation and territorial domain developed by the Republican State in the areas currently corresponding to the Northwest of Brazil, in Mato Grosso, in the so-called “empty hinterland”, a selection of the masters dissertation titled “The Republican Territorial Domain manifested in the Multi-Pressiveness of Rondon Commission” was selected in this text, in which it was intended to point out the actions of territorial recognition executed in the first years of CLTEMTA that strengthened the state body associated with the exercise of its sovereign power in the territory. The data presented were the discussions results and analysis of the Conferences held in 1910 by Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, which present an important profile of the geographical ideologies existing in the period, whose materiality is expressed in a cartographic representation by the advances obtained in the expeditions of studies and recognition that were decisive for the process of state legitimation in a society that was in its composition process.