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Universidade do Vale do Paraíba (UNIVAP). Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (IP&D) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I hold bachelor's degree in Geography from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985), a Master's degree in Remote Sensing from the National Institute of Space Research (1989), a PhD in Space Information, at POLI_USP, with a sandwich PhD from the University of New South Wales (1995) ). She completed her postdoctoral training at Indiana University, during 2007-2008. Currently, she is an associate professor at the University of Vale do Paraíba. He has experience in Urban and Regional Planning, with emphasis in Urban and Regional Planning, working mainly in the following subjects: urban space, urban planning, geotechnologies, environmental degradation and urban growth. For more than 10 years, she has worked with the study of small towns of the Amazon River Delta. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project concerns the application of the Institutional Research Contingency Funds of the UNIVAP. According to FAPESP (2008), this funds aim to support the infrastructure that benefits the collective research projects supported by FAPESP. The infrastructure can be connected to different levels of Administration inside the Institution. Thus, this project aims to present a proposal for …
This project concerns the application of the Institutional Research Contingency Funds of the Institute for Research and Development, located at UNIVAP. According to FAPESP (2008), this funds aim to support the infrastructure that benefits the collective research projects supported by FAPESP. The infrastructure can be connected to different levels of Administration inside the Institution. …
The intensification of the urbanization process in Amazon region, verified in the last two decades, caused social-spatial-environmental transformations. One example of these changes is the cities became important elements inside of the regional space. Predominantly, these cities are small urban agglomerate, with less than twenty thousand inhabitants and they have emancipated recently or h…
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The process of occupation of the Amazon has always been linked to strategic interests, starting with the construction of fortifications and the performance of religious orders - which aimed to protect the territory and manipulate indigenous communities - until the period of implementation of major projects - aimed at territorial integration and exploitation of natural resources. With thes…
The Federal Constitution of 1988 discusses the fundamental rights of the population, including education, health, food, work, housing, security, protection of motherhood and childhood, and assistance to the helpless. In urban areas of the Amazon, it can be said that these rights have not been provided to them. Residents of the small town of Afuá, located on the island of Marajó, are in a …
The intensification of the urbanization process the cities of the Amazon in recent years resulted in large spatial and social transformations. This process incorporated distant areas and was responsible for restructuring these cities according to the set of actions implemented in the municipalities. These cities of the Amazon have the predominance of small urban areas and have weak or no …
This research aims to study the relationships established between the land tenure characteristics, traditional families and the land use system that these families adopt in the municipality of Ponta de Pedras, located on the island of Marajó, PA. This municipality has two important aspects: it conserves characteristic of traditional Brazilian agrarian structure, such as concentrating larg…
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The intensification of the process of urbanization of the Amazon region in the last 40 years resulted spatial and social transformations. This process, that incorporated distant areas of the core areas to the process of urbanization, was responsible for re-structuring these cities. The cities of the Amazon region, predominantly, consists of small cities and they have fragile infrastructur…
The acceleration of urbanization process in the small cities of the Amazon in recent decades has transformed the regional and local setting of these cities, causing transformations in the socio-spatial and environmental relationships. These alterations in the Region of both urban and rural space have occurred more intensely since the 1960s. According to Costa et al. (2010), the urban Amaz…
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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)
SANDRA MARIA FONSECA DA COSTA. Da construção à instalação de uma cidade, no estado do Pará: a formação da cidade de Afuá. História, v. 39, p. -, 2020. (16/25979-8)