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. …
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The transformation in the Amazonian urban scenario has intensified in the last 50 years, but these changes did not mean investments in adequate infrastructure. Amazon cities still have poor access to basic services, including health and sanitation infrastructure, especially in small towns. These deficiencies create a problem to the population, creating a scenario of Environmental and Soci…
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 …
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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 action of religious orders - whose objective was to protect the territory and control the indigenous communities - until the period of implementation of projects, aimed at the territorial integration and exploitation of natural resources. Consider…
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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