Research Areas

CONCENTRATION AREA: SPACE, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AND TRAINING IN GEOGRAPHY

Line 1: SPACE, POLITICS AND PLANNING

Using dialogs, it seeks to deepen the studies of Geography in the field of politics in terms of the different sub-areas of this science, and in the planning matrix, regarding both urban-regional issues and the mechanisms of planning, management, analysis and environmental management. To this extent, planning becomes more than the methodological constitution of planning processes. It becomes the political exercise of choice, criticism and establishment of goals, actions and evaluations about spatial interventions. In the current context, integrative thinking is fundamental for understanding phenomena at the most diverse scales. This line of research proposes both a critical eye and the development of technologies aimed at analyzing and proposing solutions to socio-environmental problems. As such, there are pertinent topics on: the expansion and crisis of capitalism; the metropolization process and the transformation of peripheral spaces; territorial and representational disputes, urban-economic restructuring and its productive-spatial developments; the revision of the theoretical position of new philosophical frameworks that shape the forms of geographic thought. There are also studies included that deal with the formulation of public policies, the creation of conservation units and mechanisms for environmental adaptation, investigations on the application and use of new technologies (like remote sensing, digital image processing techniques and global positioning by satellite) and techniques of representation and spatial modeling.


Line 2: TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENT AND TEACHING GEOGRAPHY

Territorial, environmental and educational transformations and their related processes, at the most diverse scales, are the central focuses of this line of research. The links between changes in social, political, technological, environmental and educational structures complicate the territory, providing the basis for theoretical, methodological and conceptual discussions. As such, it encourages a rethinking of Geography as towards different realities that result in a critical training. It involves analyses related to the territorial perspective of urban and rural spaces, migrations, tourism and culture. It provides environmental analysis, environmental conflicts, conservation units, ecotourism, cartography and geo-technologies applied to geography. In addition, there are analyses related to geographic education in terms of the focus on teaching and/or learning the contents of geography and themes, such as environmental education, school cartography, production of didactic material and teacher training.

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