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With the construction of two hydroelectric power plants in the lower level of Araguari river Capim Branco I and Capim Branco II , we had the opportunity to study the fauna of Ae. (Och.) scapularis in those areas, before and after the environmental alterations provoked by the construction. The study was carried out from May 2003 to April 2005, at the same time in the two areas. In the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco I the environmental alterations began in May 2004, while in Capim Branco II they occurred in March 2005. Four fixed points were chosen for capture of the insects being two in the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco I (one to the edge of Araguari river and the other 184m further up on a higher topographical position) and two in Capim Branco II (one to the edge of Araguari river and the other 584m up on a higher topographical position). This work has for objective the study of the fauna of Ae. (Och.) scapularis being taken into consideration the physiographical characteristics of the areas. There have been a total of 96 field collections being 64 of 3:00 hours each and 32 of 12:00 hours each. Shannon traps were used and in the captures of 12:00 hours with three CDC-type traps being used. However these last ones were not well succeeded. An ecological profile for each area was elaborated in order to study and describe their environment. A total of 61 samples of Ae. (Och.) scapularis were captured in the two areas. In the first stage 90.57% of the insects were captured in the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco II and 9.43% in the area of Capim Branco I. During the second stage 87.50% were captured in the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco I and 12.50% in the area of Capim Branco II. With the obtained data it was observed that the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco II is more favorable to the fauna of Ae. (Och.) scapularis than Capim Branco I. The environmental alterations provoked by the construction of the barrages of Capim Branco I and Capim Branco II were related to the suppression of vegetation, the great circulation of vehicles and machinery, intense noise, dust and workers' presence in the work place. We consider that there was no alteration in the fauna of Ae. (Och.) scapularis during the research before and during the environmental alteration, in the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco I. In what regards the area of construction of the barrage of Capim Branco II we are not able to reach to a conclusion once the research was held during only two months period of the construction of the barrage.

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In the same way, as the cities, the Urban Planning is dynamic, therefore it must follow the constant changes in urban space, considering and adjusting itself to new urban realities. Several important moments in Urban Planning History in Brazil demonstrate methodology changes to take care of the new cities reality. Here, two moments are distinguished: the first one, with the arrival of 1988 Constitution, and the other, with the approval of the City Statute . The second chapter of the Constitution nominates the Managing Plan as the basic instrument of the development politics and urban expansion. Many Managing Plans were elaborated after the Constitution, however several foreseen urban politics in the Constitution needed regulation through a federal law. In January 2001, the wanted Federal Law was regulated, it was the arrival of City Statute, that added new values to the Urban Planning, mainly to the Territorial Planning, and determined that all cities rethink the vision of the cities and the function of the Managing Plan. The cities with more than twenty thousand inhabitants have until October 2006 to fulfill this requirement and to adjust its Managing Plans to the principles of the City Statute. This study objective is to contribute with a proposal of adequacy of the Managing Plans to the City Statute, following recommendations demanded by City Statute and considering as base, the analysis of some carried through experiences. The methodology used was a bibliographical revision and analysis of Managing Plans that already had been adjusted. Beyond this analysis, was defined as a case study, Tupaciguara MG city, that possesses a Managing Plan that was not implemented and that must be adjusted to the City Statute. A joint work between public power and civil society will be important to succeed at adequacy process. The community participation constitutes as the great challenge from the change. Only through the vision of community, the cities will reach the goals to place in practice the principles of the City Statute.

The municipal district of Ipameri has his economy based in agricultural activities that it unchained a series of erosive processes. This study had as objective a bibliographical revision about the fundamental aspects of the erosive process and the factors that condition his development. For demonstration of her evolution monitoring techniques were used, with the intention of relating rain data, characteristics of the soil and vegetable covering. It was selected a ramification that presented great activity, for determination of her evolution in a period of two years. It was installed inside the gully a drain for monitoring of the flow and collection of transported sediment The collected material was analyzed in the Laboratório de Geomorfologia e Erosão de Solos -UFU, to obtain information on the granulometry. It was possible to quantify the evolution of the borders of the gully and to identify the responsible mechanisms. The: regression, erosion goes fall of water, therefore that the superficial drainage i the main factor goes the development of these process. The analysis granulometry of the material determined that the transport dynamics vary in agreement with the pluviometric index that alters the volume of the flow that consequently increase his/her transport capacity. The material collected in the walls of the gully presented a plasticity index between 6 and 15% indicating that it is an area that presents measured resistance the erosion interns, what determines that the main responsible factor for the erosive dynamics is the drainage superficial. The evolution of the gully has as cause the effects of natural factors as the characteristics of the soil, because it is treated of a soil that can be divided in three layers being to superior a loamier layer, second composed by pebbles of originated quartz of the own rock and a third that it is the altered rock, in that way the explanation can come for the mass movements, since the third layer is sandier is therefore crumblier, another factor is the topography that contributed to the formation of the superficial drainage and the characteristics of the rains. The erosion of the soil manifest as the biggest problem for the people who make the use of the land.

The study area is located in Uberlândia MG, in one of the experimental farms of the Federal University of Uberlândia, which is known as Glória Experimental Farm. The gully researched is located in a region of contact between Sand Stones and Basalts. In this place, the Humankind made a lot of interventions in the natural forms, and the most part of the vegetation was put down and the soil started to be used for agriculture and other Human uses. This study consists in to monitoring a gully activity, considering the erosive process engaged, the hydrological dynamics and the sediments transport. For collecting data in the field about these topics, it was necessary to construct a little dam at the mouth of gully flow, which used to improve data about water flow variation and the sediments transport, which were analyzed in the lab. Also was taken a lot of photos of the studied process, which were used in the lab analyses. The objectifies of this study were to show the influences of the erosive process by gullies in the equilibrium of the environment, specially because of the large quantity of sediments that is generated in this process. This gully is connected directly to a brook stream of inferior order of the Paraná Hydrologic Basin, and part of the large quantity of sediments produced in this gully can cause a lot of problems in Down Basin area, specially for the rivers channels and hydroelectric lakes. This shows that the problematic of gullies it is not intrinsic just to the loco where the gully is, but to all macro-basin where the gully is inserted.

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This work ha as objective to analyze the intra-urban dynamics of Caldas Novas, caused by the amplification and restructuring of the hotel complex happened mainly in the end of decade of 1990. Great part of the works writings on Caldas Novas, they bring a study about the thermal waters and the use of the same ones. But an analysis of the urban and tourist growth starting from the exploration of that thermal water table, was not still made. For so much, reading of referring works about that subject, direct our researches and, were visited to the questionnaires and interviews were applied to the contractor of the hotel branch an population, respectively, what a lot aided us in the obtaining or qualitative data. We had the opportunity to know the dynamic tourist population closely and also the tourists opinion and of the resident population in the city about the tourism. We analyzed the vertical building process, essential in the reproduction of the urban soil and construction of present heterogeneous spaces in the city. The analysis the artificial public spaces also permeated our studies. Fruit of the intense exploration of the urban soil, the artificial space the urban atmospheres, being the same addressed to the tourist taste that goes by the city. We verified that the intra-urban dynamics in differentiated in the periods of larges and less tourist movement. The periods considered low season, for they are less attractive, they receive less tourists, while the periods of high season, that is to say, lingering holidays an vacations are more favorable and attractiveness for the practice of the tourism. This dynamic heterogeneous popularity is one of the responsible factors for the space, economic and tourist transformations for which the city is passing now.

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The action human being in the natural environment comes generating one serie of ambient problems. The withdrawal of the natural covering for increase of the destined areas agriculture increases to each year. The deforestation is the initial point to unchain a gamma of ambient problems. It is distinguished those that are, also, influenced for the rain. The overland flow has the power, throughout its way covered in the surface, to disaggregate and to carry essential elements to the ground. Moreover, the natural characteristics of soil go separately or in set, to facilitate the sprouting of this draining on the surface. The plots had been decisive instruments in this inquiry, therefore, the data collected in field had served substantially for the interpretations contained in this work. The granulometry test is important to have in mind its texture, but, the necessity of elaborated tests exists more and to go to the field with bigger regularity, is excellent. To its end, one perceived that the necessity to study related subjects the soilloss and rainfall requires more time so that if it can implement finer tests and to help more in the search of based elements on the erosive process influenced by the overlandflow.

The implantation of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia campus Glória is a project thought for the university since the decade of 1970 and crosses all its history in the institution aspiration. At this moment when starts to be argued the Brazilian university system reform and the municipal space reform, the proposal of campus Glória has a grate chance of being engaged by the UFU end Uberlândia community. For in such a way, however, obstacles and challenges, institucional and municipal, will have to be surpassed to conform the project of the campus.

This essay had its origin in the uneasiness lived on the everyday teaching work and on the interaction with teachers in their teaching formation. The necessity of deconstructing mistaken impressions on the teaching identity by unraveling the Geography teachers practice was the challenge of the theme here proposed. Thus, the traced plan had as goal to study how, in their day by day pedagogical practice and along the teaching formation process, 5th to 8th grade Geography teachers in public schools, on riverside towns, on the medium São Francisco basin, integrate and put into interaction the lores arising from their local culture and from their school culture. The theoretical subsidy, from several areas of knowledge, propitiated the profundity and comprehension of the identity, professional practice, teachers knowledge categories, contributing to give shape to the scientific production. The qualitative approach was used and for methodology we used the oral life story of eight teachers, from five municipalities of the São Francisco basin. After being transcript, the narratives were sent back to the teachers, who interfered in the sense of keeping the report or not. In order to better outline our research, we decided for clipping the narratives and inserting the necessary reflections along the text in order to achieve our goals. The analyses developed showed that in the reality researched the Geography teachers have plied different realities on their life story and along their formation until they took charge of their teaching profession, the teachers identity is influenced by the social and cultural school everyday routine, modifying their way of life and their professional life. The research also showed that the Geography teachers articulate their local cultural knowledge with the school culture in a practice interlaced by a lot of limitations originated from the school organization and from the investments on the teachers continued formation.

This research introduced the concept and practice of composting to a school community. It represents a possible option of diverting a considerable amount of organic residues from the Municipal Landfill. At a test community in Araguari, the Escola Estadual Antônio Nunes de Carvalho Filho, a composting experience was planned and executed using biodegradable waste from the school kitchen and also from students´ homes and some commercial donators located in the school s neighborhood. This experience is part of the study of a new system of household waste management in the City of Araguari that is being implemented by the Municipal Department of the Environment. The research, from the introduction of the topic, through obtaining students acceptance and participation, all the way to the production of two batches of compost, took eight months. An excellent quality compost was obtained, which will be used in the school garden and in the creation of a new tree nursery at the school. Attending to one research objective, the composting practice is now being considered as candidate to integrate the course schedule. It is expected that the school community multiplies its knowledge to the citizens who directly or indirectly interact with it. The first experience of this multiplication has already occurred. As part of this project the students of the test school, upon invitation, presented their results to the community of another school, Escola Centro Educacional Municipal Mário da Silva Pereira. After this knowledge multiplication, it will be easier to convey the concept of divided collection of solid waste to all the residences of Araguari in the near future. To have a sustainable future it is essential to change the attitudes of people towards solid waste, and the present project has provided a means to do just that.

The aim of our work is avaliate the use of the remote sensing at the municipals middle school in Uberlândia. We realized a continuous fomation course for the teachers at CEMEPE, a pilot project and a didatic kit of instrumental help to the teachers use remote sensing tecniques at middle school. We avaliated the CTGEO-Escola software applicability and as a result we have great contribution of making the didatic kit. The results show the possibility of the use of remote sensing resourses in the production of a didatic material for the middle school, showing simulations of modifictions of the space situation.

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The field built and rebuilt in the memories of the workers of Southeast Goias is constituted in the thesis that we present now. In a process of reading and re-reading interviews produced from the year of 2000, we search to deepen meanings that memories related to the countryside can bring some of the redefinitions of the relations of work that these workers were subdued in the second half of the 20th century. Maintaining a dialog with the interviews produced with men and women, workers who suffered redefinitions in their lives due to the change from the countryside to the city, we point out some issues productions in history that, having countryside and city apart in the dynamics of production and consumption, blame for the first one a space which people were setting themselves up from a situation of economical misery and political apathy, condition which would be freed by going to the city, place in which capitalism would favor, for the salaried work and for the technological advancements, a redemption of the conditions survived in the countryside. We refuse to acknowledge a way of thinking in which the memories of the workers are put behind, in structures which are strange to their world, though at some point they are galvanized. These structures, at the same time in which they attribute little political relevance to the actions of the countryside workers, they intend to appoint authorized spokeswomen of these characters. The subject allowed testing our understanding of culture, while indissociable from the practices and expectations that these workers used to have or still have. In this way, we reflect that the pressures, which they suffered and to which was printed in an unstable fact, were determinant for the redefinitions that either the countryside as for the city passed through in that period. We look for, in the effort of reconstituting the clash of powers that revealed in the changes, not to level out the memories, so that they would result in only two memories, the dominant and the dominated one. Through dialogs with some authors, mainly with Alessandro Portelli, we identified the existence of possible memories in the conditions of production and of different elaborations of the same area of pressures, revealing available means, which were used or not by many of the protagonists. This thesis allowed the reaffirmation that the categories work and workers set themselves up as and reconstitute in the social field, which inputs limits and pressures for this (re) construction, an always open process, continuous and unfinished in the memories which are produced.

The research aims to quest the historical and social process of memories construction about the workers' social movement in June 1949 in Fernandópolis-SP, commonly known as "communist insurgence or movement of agrarian revolution . Workers mobilized and organized themselves into various social movements that struggled against exploitation and domination lived in the field and city in the socialy shared environment of late 1940 and the following two decades. The historical process experienced by the workers was related to extreme situations involving pressure and exploitation of the large landowners, the organization of various movements, the politic struggle, the political and police repression of the DOPS and life in hiding; finally, limits, pressures and expectations of the daily life. Among the various struggles that the organized, the struggle for land marked a politicization moment of the class struggle where workers have established ways of life and struggle by themselves. The questioning were outlined in the convergence of daily life and the meanings that workers assigned to the process of developing several projects for their lives, among them, the struggle for land, in relation to meanings and hegemonic values and practices. We inspect in the criminal research, police investigations, records of DOPS, the press and oral narrative. Therefore, the historical and social process of construction of memories about the social movement of workers in June 1949, the experiences of the struggle for land and political militancy in Fernandópolis led me to identify the memory as one of the places of contention for hegemony in the city and workers movement at June 1949 as the expression of shared memories and class cultures.

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