Researches: Urban-Regional Geography of the Baixada Fluminense and Metropolitan Region; Studies on the Urban Periphery, Technical Networks, Industry, Urbanization and Basic Sanitation; Political Geography: Territory and territoriality, Public Policies; Hegemony; South-South relations with emphasis on Brazil-Africa and Geopolitics;
Researches: Politics, Epistemology and History of Geography; ?Classical? Geography; French Geographical Thinking (1871-1945); Geography, Geopolitics and Modernity; Post-colonialism, Territorial Epistemology and Geopolitics of Knowledge; Narratives, Speeches and Translation Policies in Geography; Geo-History; Historiography.
Researches: Economic Geography and Industry; Neo-liberalism and Territorial-Production Restructuring Processes; Training New Factory Spaces: Districts, Clusters, Technopolises and Industrial Condominiums; Geopolitics of Sustainable Development and Contemporary Environmental Issues; The City and the Ideology of Sustainable Development.
Researches: Urban Geography; Critical Urbanization; Territories and Territoriality; Urban Frontiers; Daily and Everyday Life; Metropolises; Urban Planning and Critique of Political Economy.
Researches: Capitalism and Urbanization; Rural-Urban Affairs; Critique of Political Economy; Urban Crisis; Brazilian Urbanization; Theory of Value; Geography and Sociology; Society of Labor; Historical Geography of Rio de Janeiro.
Researches: Geographic Climatology; Urban Meteorology; Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling; Remote Sensing in Urban Areas; Urban Development of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro.
Researches: Geographic Information Systems; Geoprocessing; Modeling of Spatial Databases; Geoprocessing Applied to Environmental Analysis; Response to Environmental Disasters; Monitoring of Social Media in Support of Emergencies.
Researches: Remote Sensing of the Environment; Image Classification: Analysis of Images Based on Geographic Objects ? GEOBIA, Data Mining and Knowledge Modeling; Thematic and Digital Cartography; Geoprocessing Applied to Environmental Analysis; Landscape Geoecology; Geomorphology.
Researches: Climate Changes; Geographic Climatology; Urban Climate and Heat Islands; Atmospheric Pollution; Hydrometeoric Impacts; Atmospheric Circulation Models; Geography of Health; Environmental Planning and Management; Conservation Units and Risk Analysis.
Researches: Physical Geography, acting mainly on the following themes: Geomorphology, Biogeography, Environmental Education and Physical Geography Teaching
Researches: Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, Regional Geography, study of great powers; science, technology and innovation; regional development, regionalization and decentralization; analysis of public policies, industrial and innovation policies; development and territory.
Researches: Geography, Culture, Existence and Daily Life; Territorialities and Resistances; Urban Geography, Feminist Geographies; Geography and Decolonial Thinking.
Researches: Tourism, Immigration, Identity, Socialization, Peasantry and Gender.
Researches: Agrarian Geography; Geography and Indigenous Peoples; Regionalization and Expansion of Corporate Agriculture in Brazil; Alternative Urban and Rural Agriculture; Social Movements and Territorial Resistance Activities; Territory, Territoriality and Resistance; Geography and Decolonial Thinking.
Researches: Environmental Risk Management; Social Cartography Applied to Tourism; GIS; Geotourism.
Researches: Climatology; Environment; Environmental Education; Environmental Impacts; Heat Island and Freshness; Climate Changes; Teaching Geography; Teaching Climatology; Environmental Education; Different Languages in Teaching Geography; Process of Teaching and Learning; Production of Didactic Material.
Researches: Environmental Education and Formative Processes.
Researches: Environmental Planning and Management; Conservation and Restoration of Nature; Landscape Ecology in Environmental Planning; Geotechnologies Applied to Environmental Management; Conservation Units and Environmental Conflicts; The Environmental Dimension in Sustainable Tourism; Geo-technology Applied to Geography Teaching; Geo-technology in Basic Education.
Researches: Didactic Methods and Teaching Geography; Education and Policy of Geography Professors; Teaching-Learning in Geography and Interdisciplinary Practices; Teaching of Geosciences; School Cartography.
Researches: School Cartography; Thematic Cartography; Use of Illustrations as a Scientific and Didactic Resource; Tourism-oriented Cartography.
Sarah Lawall
Researches: Biogeography, Urban and Cultural Biogeography, Landscape Dynamics and Soil Education