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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências (IG) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Kauê Lopes dos Santos is a Professor at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Campinas (IG-UNICAMP). He served as a Visiting Researcher at the Latin American and Caribbean Centre of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LACC-LSE) from 2019 to 2023 and as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Energy and Environment of the University of São Paulo (IEE-USP) from 2018 to 2021. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Geography from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages, and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP) in 2017, during which he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) from 2015 to 2016. He holds a Masters degree in Habitat from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), awarded in 2011. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Geography from FFLCH-USP and a Geography Teaching Degree from the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo (FE-USP), both obtained in 2007. Since the beginning of his academic career, his research has focused on political, economic, urban, and environmental issues related to the territories of the Global South, particularly in Latin America and Africa. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The first decades of the 21st century were marked by a significant expansion in the number of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) installed on the African continent, given that these totaled 20 in 1990 and jumped to 237 in 2020. That expansion can only be understood in light of the favorable situation of economic growth and political stabilization that most socio-spatial formations on the conti…
The production of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has increased globaly throughout the 21st century, raising concerns in the scientific field about the impacts that the processing (recycling) of these materials can generate in the environment and the economy, especially in the South Global, where studies on the subject are still at an embryonic stage. The comparative stud…
The money, in its differents ways, change the nature and the territorial labour division in town. The upper circuit of urban economy becomes, nowadays, reason and effect of the global financial system, while the lower circuit, indirectly formed by hegemonic labour division, recently turns interesting to financial money. The financial system capillarits itself in the town and gets the lowe…
The significant increase in the production of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) - commonly known as e-waste - in recent years has raised many concerns among scientists due to the risks that inappropriate management and its negative effective on human health and the environment, mostly in urban areas. At the same time, the recycling of WEEE represents a strong possibility of…
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