Regional development and sustainability: a resource-intensive industry in the administrative region of Ribeirão Preto

• Grant number: 10/18473-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Urban and Regional Planning - Methods and Techniques of Urban and Regional Planning
• Principal Investigator: Roberto Braga
• Grantee: Angélica Vieira de Souza Lopes
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The natural resource intensive industries have moved from center to periphery in Brazil. This shift is related to the environmental impacts generated by this industry, because in small towns occur more benefits to these industries, and local institutional capacity is less in pollution control. In the 1970s began, the state of São Paulo, a process of industrial metropolitan region of Sao Paulo to the interior of the state, which has generated intense industrialization of the regions of Campinas, Ribeirão Preto, Sorocaba and São José dos fields. This research project aims to verify whether there has been a shift of industries intensive in natural resources for the Administrative Region of Ribeirao Preto, as well as the sustainability aspects of this process. (AU)