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The main aim of this project is to analyze the paleoflora of the Eifelian-Givetian interval in the state of Paraná from a perspective where several areas of geological and paleontological knowledge will be addressed jointly. The team involved in this project consists of researchers operating in the Brazilian Paleozoic in several areas of the geosciences such as, taphonomy, invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and micropaleontology. Thus, the techniques and tools already consolidated in the Devonian area in the south of Brazil will contribute to a deeper and more integrated analysis of paleobotany throughout the ages; knowledge that is still not widespread in the current literature. The main objective of this project is the analysis of palaeobotanical material, by integrating taphonomic, sedimentary and stratigraphic data sections, in the selected Devonian sections, as an auxiliary tool in the paleoecological interpretation of the studied region.
This proposal provides a detailed study of the ichnology of Devonian sediments in Paraná state, with emphasis on deposits corresponding to the Neoemsiano/Givetian interval (Ponta Grossa and São Domingos formations) and the generation of criteria that help to refine paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations of these layers, which represent sedimentation in an environment of marine origin in the Paraná Basin, in the state of Paraná. It is intended to apply taphonomic methods of analysis of high resolution integrated with sequence stratigraphy
Protected natural areas are ideal locations for the implementation of environmental education programs because they can be considered true living laboratories that provide increased knowledge and direct contact with the environment. Stimulating this kind of experience, together with the transmission of ecological concepts and encouraging a process of inclusion of all segments of local communities, can create new values ??that contribute to involvement in conservation and full citizenship (PADUA & TABANEZ, 1997). However, interpretive media are generally scarce in Brazil, and particularly in the Campos Gerais region. Thus, this project aims to fill this gap by proposing media which will facilitate the interpretation of the environment in the region. The objectives of the project are: to understand the importance of environmental interpretation in activities in natural areas; to identify different interpretive media that can be used in the Campos Gerais area; to understand the relationship between interpretive media and tourism in natural areas; and to plan interpretive media that are appropriate to the reality of the region.
Environmental interpretation is considered to be part of environmental education and is the term used to describe the communication activities performed for a better understanding of the natural environment in parks, museums, nature centers etc. It facilitates knowledge and the appreciation of nature, i.e. it translates technical language into terms and ideas that are understandable by the general public, aiming at the conservation of natural resources and increased visitor satisfaction. Interpretative media are available for the realization of environmental interpretation and these include guided trails, tours and specialized itineraries, theater, games, recreational activities (customized media), appropriate signage, interpretive panels, websites, publications and media (non-customized media). However, it has been found that the Campos Gerais region lacks interpretive media, both in conservation areas and in other natural areas where touristic activities are performed. Thus, this line of research aims to utilize aspects of the natural heritage of the Campos Gerais as a basis for the creation of interpretive media to be used in educational and touristic activities conducted in natural areas ( such as ecotourism, adventure tourism, geo-tourism rural tourism, etc.)
Studies aiming for an application for a Geopark in Fernando de Noronha, PE
The aim is to analyze the position of women candidates, elected and unelected, in the networks funding the elections of 2008 and 2010, at the different levels of the Brazilian federation. There are four main goals: (1) to organize the electoral information into a database about legal private funding of the 2008 and 2010 campaigns in Brazil, covering all levels and spheres of government (municipal, state and federal). Quantitatively, this entails 30 million records, structured into databases and containing information about 344,253 elected and unelected candidates in the elections of 2008 and 2010, and 1.4 million donors, individuals and corporations, in both elections; (2) to generate and draw (Kamada-Kawai graphs) social networks of campaign funding in Brazil in the period covered by the survey at the local, state and federal levels. Quantitatively, this entails 500 reports and graphs related to the funding networks of the 2008 elections (one for each of the 500 municipalities with higher electoral college comprising the executive and legislative) and 109 reports and graphs related to the funding networks of the 2010 elections (one for each state, state and federal representatives, governors and senators, and one for the presidential elections; (3) To provide geo-referencing networks of the funding of electoral campaigns in Brazil in the period covered by the survey at the local, state and federal level. Quantitatively, this entails 500 cartograms related to the funding networks (one for each of the 500 municipalities with higher electoral college) regarding the 2008 elections, and 109 cartograms regarding the 2010 elections (one for each state, state and federal representatives, governors and senators, and one for the presidential elections); (4) to determine basic indicators (general data, indexes and triadic census) for the analysis of the funding networks of all 609 formed networks, assuming gender cleavage as being crucial to the analysis. Quantitatively, this entails 1,830 network reports.
For this research, the Territorial Studies Group (GETE) proposes to expand the temporal and thematic scope of research that is already underway (‘The mapping of the space of women in the funding networks of the 2008 and 2010 elections in Brazil’), incorporating spatial pieces of data, divided into rural and urban, by the ‘Territories of Citizenship’ program and the ‘Brazil Without Poverty’ program, as well as data sets for 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2012. The results will constitute one of the most important studies in this area of recent times, and it will be available to the scientific community and other interested parties, both in terms of standard statistical analyses and in terms of innovative methodologies, notably the analysis of social networks. The research will be driven by the questions listed above and will generate the following results: (1) the systematization of a database containing applications, accountability and results of the election campaigns of 2002, 2004, 2006 (2008 and 2010) and 2012 in Brazil, covering all levels and branches of government, included all the units of the Federation and all 5,565 Brazilian municipalities; (2) files and graphs of the funding networks, covering all levels and spheres of government regarding the 2002, 2006 and 2010 campaigns; (3) files and graphs of the funding networks of municipalities covered by 120 ‘Citizenship Territories’ in 2004, 2008 and 2012; (4) cartograms of the funding networks of the electoral campaigns of 2002, 2006 and 2010 in Brazil; (5) cartograms of the funding networks of the electoral campaigns of 2004, 2008 and 2012, relating to the municipalities covered by 120 ‘Citizenship Territories’; (6) reports of calculations, with coefficients and indices of inter-relationships, to analyze the position of women in these networks; (7) a digital atlas available online containing all the graphs of the networks, cartograms and reports generated in the research; and (8) four analytical texts on the subject of women's participation.
Some issues both found and disrupt the democratic order, such as: who funds the electoral process?; what are the established relations between paying groups and groups that receive?; what is the spatiality of these relationships?; and what is the role of women's participation in the structure of funding electoral campaigns? In an attempt to provide some answers to these questions this research proposal explores the set of data available in Brazil regarding election funding and seeks to apply them to the methodology of social network analysis and to spatialize the results by focusing on the participation of women in Paraná. The scale of the research includes all levels of candidates in the elections of 2008 and 2010, both elected and unelected, for the legislature and the executive throughout the entire national territory. The products generated by this research include: (1) archives and graphs related to the funding networks, covering all levels and spheres of government (2010 campaign), and the 50 municipalities with higher electoral college in the State of Paraná (2008 campaign); (2) cartograms of the 109 funding networks of the 2010 election campaign in Brazil relative to the 50 municipalities with higher electoral college in the State of Paraná; (3) an online digital atlas; and (4) two analytical texts on the participation of women from Paraná in the funding networks of the 2008 and 2010 elections in Brazil.
The historiography of Brazilian geographical science has neglected the contributions of various social groups in the production of space, especially individuals from the lower levels of the socio-economic pyramid of the country; notably: women, prisoners, children and adolescents, gays, lesbians, transgender people, transsexuals and travestis. Although they are absent from the geographic discourse, these people have participated in controversial urban scenarios, such as: violent acts committed by teenagers; protests and demands for the human rights of those who transgress heteronormativity; the rapid rise of single-parent families headed by impoverished women; as well as intense conflicts within the growing prison population. This line of research aims to increase the visibility of social groups that have traditionally been neglected within the area of Brazilian geography, but who forcefully make their mark in city spaces. The new cultural geography, under the influence of current so-called ‘feminist geography’, has contributed to a political-scientific reflection that involves the intersection between identity, space and power, and which demonstrates the tactics of everyday resistance of peripheral social groups. Research in this area is based on postcolonial and poststructuralist approaches, as well as theories of gay and lesbian identity and space. The focus of discussion is the transformation of identities, related to the different spaces that establish certain bodily performances, and the complexity of this relationship, which considers identity and space as terms that are inseparable and are simultaneously (re)created discursively. The line of research proposed here sets out to cover a gap in the theoretical field of geographical science in Brazil and it has unquestionable social relevance because it provides a critical reflection on the relationship between science and policy, addressing the action of some social groups, which have little voice in the area of institutional power.
The development of this project enhances the practices of socio-spatial inclusion and the promotion of the human rights of groups in prostitution in Ponta Grossa PR by creating a movie featuring social groups of travestis and prostitutes who work in the sex trade in the city of Ponta Grossa. The production of audio-visual material involves people from different institutions and different areas of knowledge who will work directly with vulnerable groups in prostitution, using approaches to create a film that aims to be a vehicle of awareness and information, and to promote discussions and actions based around the daily life of the vulnerable groups in focus.
To identify, in the geographical landscape of the historical center of Ponta Grossa, traces of the memory and symbols of the history of the railway in the city. The research will be based on the perception of the researchers and people who move within the place, and older people who have experienced major changes in the place over the last 60 years.
This project considers the expansion of the concept of cultural heritage, and identifies and reviews cultural heritage and its touristic and educational potential, in terms of a proposal for a tourism project (of regional development), namely the ‘Drovers Route’ for the region of Campos Gerais, Paraná.
The Center brings together research that addresses issues related to public policies and social practices. It examines the question of the state as an institution that is decisive in the formulation of social and developmental policies.
This research aims to understand how LGBT non-governmental organizations connect spatialities in southern Brazil. Spatialities, as defined by Massey (2008), consist of inter-relationships, spheres of multiplicity, and they are always under construction. This theoretical possibility is of great importance, due to the fact that it is from social practices, and in this research, from the action of LGBT non-governmental organizations, that spatiality is constituted, and likewise connected, via personal networks through the implementation of LGBT public policies. According to Ferrari (2004), these NGOs commenced between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, targeting actions for the defense of visibility, the production of new knowledge, and the struggle for civil rights and full citizenship. The spatial context conducive to this birth of demands was related to the end of the military dictatorship and the beginning of a political opening, which made possible the dream of greater democracy, equality, and social justice for groups, as discussed by Butler (2003), which did not correspond to linearity between sex, gender, sexual practice and desire. From the outset, the work of LGBT non-governmental organizations was related to the prevention of STDs/HIV/AIDS, as in the creation of the National Program of STD and AIDS (Ordinance no. 236, May 1985). Their actions increased with the 2004 launch of the ‘Brazil Without Homophobia’ Program, and in 2009, with the launch of the ‘First Plan of Goals’ for the LGBT population. According to their participation in notices published by the Ministry of Health, these NGOs have been a way of implementing public policies, promoting the organization of various elements in the formation of provisional socio-spatialities, or, as proposed by Anderson and McFarlane (2011), an organization in assemblage. Under our theoretical perspective, this refers to the paradoxes of agglomerations.
New ideas and paradigms relating to global environmental issues and environmental problems have fostered diversification and specialization of the natural and exact sciences, in this case the geosciences, because geomorphology is a new approach that is devoted to the study of environments with strong influences from anthropogeny and anthropomorphology (NIR, 1983; GOUDIE, 1994; GOUDIE AND VILES, 1997).
This research proposes an integrated study, between the areas of education, cultural geography and geomorphology, seeking to understand the current relationship of knowledge with tourism activities linked to natural-geomorphological heritage.
The current system of land use in the vicinity of the reservoir and along the watercourses of its tributaries, as demonstrated by the scientific literature, is responsible for the production of large loads of sediment of various sizes. Some of these are only carried as bottom load, depending on the capacity and the competence of the fluvial current throughout the year, which changes during the two main seasons; the dry season and the rainy season. The sediment load transported in suspension has been assessed by frequent analysis of water quality (via turbidity), but the sediments which occupy the banks of the reservoir, or which produce a reduction in its depth, have not been computed by such analyses, even though they also produce effects or impacts on the quality of that source in the medium term. This main aim of this research, which is classified as an exploratory/experimental case study, is the definition of a field laboratory for the development of practical teaching/research aimed at geography graduates. The aim is to have a systemic approach applied specially to the subjects of geomorphology and hydrology/ water resources, which will be primarily geographic in character. It is considered that this area of study contains a number of conditions relevant to the development of various research projects, which will permit the realization of geographical analyses focused on the integrated management of water resources and territory.
The vast socio-cultural diversity in Brazil is accompanied by different forms of organized communities, including traditional populations. These communities commonly reproduce specific productive agroforestry practices, and symbolic practices related to rural life, configuring unique landscape-territorial assets. New social actors in the countryside are beginning to consolidate and present alternative proposals to ensure the reproduction of the rural way of life of traditional communities (faxinal, quilombola, indigenous, agroecological farmers, among others). Thus, the objective of this extension project is to provide support and advice concerning the recognition of traditional territories and populations in Paraná, such as faxinal and quilombola populations, as well as other traditional rural communities who have sought to reaffirm their socio-territorial identities and resist hegemonic processes of modernization of rural areas.
When considering the quality of life in cities, the presence of urban greenery, represented by the trees present on public roads, in parks, squares and gardens, both in public and private environments, is undeniable. The success of urban greening requires planning, and not just planting trees, which unfortunately does not occur systematically in Brazil, where this task is the responsibility of municipal administrations. The planning of urban greening should consider the appropriate species, particularly native species, the availability of space, climatic conditions and maintenance conditions. The planning of urban greening initially passes through a process of assessment, which is usually performed by means of inventories, which aim to log the shrubs and trees in a specific location. The results of these studies may support the planning and management of urban greening, as well as outlining priorities for silvicultural interventions. These recommendations are valid and necessary for the implementation of new wooded areas and also to redesign existing green areas. Urban greening in Brazil is still often done in a very empirical manner, using only aesthetic and bibliographic information. Selecting a species, just by its appearance, does not guarantee the success of its implementation since the characteristics of the urban environment are generally contrary to those of the natural environment, differing in microclimatic, pedological and topographical aspects, to cite the most relevant. In the case of green areas that already exist in urban centers, it is necessary to check the quality, and understand the behavior and functionality of the benefits, and, especially, to detect problems and damage arising out of such greening. Although they are relatively small, urban green areas fulfil important functions. The goal of this research is is to make a diagnosis of the current state of green areas in public roads and squares in Ponta Grossa.
One of the key issues in environmental research is the definition of homogeneous environmental units to facilitate the research space, searching for a method that is both profitable and not degrading. Studying a hydrographic basin (HB) implies identifying its main components, as well as its relationship with its context, through inputs and outputs. These main components can include: land use, geology, hydrology, urban areas, climate, soil and topography. Using the concept of a HB consists in determining a functional space in which environmental management mechanisms should be developed from the perspective of environmentally sustainable development. The physical-conservationist diagnosis (PCD) is a preliminary diagnosis, which is necessary to support a comprehensive diagnosis of the hydrographic basin. Even though it is generic, it is comprehensive and practical, in order to obtain objective values with which ??to assess the physical-conservationist state of the hydrographic basin, both in urban and rural spaces. The main objective of this methodology is to assess the environmental status of the basin, highlighting conflicts of use and culminating in a proposal for its rational use.
Since the onset of globalization, at the turn of the sixteenth century, Mennonites have been involved in the production of translocal and global spaces. Mennonites arose out of the theological controversies of the religious ‘Great Reform’ and they advocate adult baptism and extreme pacifism, as well as migration. Their social formation is based on a strong internal coherence that often leads to the formation of closed communities. In a response to rejections and persecutions, the Mennonites have been scattered throughout the world during their history, a dispersal that even until today is characterized by a system of "translocality". In Latin America, this system of Mennonite translocality is a curious combination of community and globalization, in which Mennonites seek alternatives that will ensure their economic and cultural survival without breaking with their Christian principles. Thus, this research aims to analyze the complex spatiality of Mennonites in Latin America through their translocal networks. The analysis is based on the investigation of elements of social and systemic integration in the everyday life of Mennonite communities in Brazil, Mexico, Belize and Paraguay.
The line of continued research, ‘Stratiagraphic Paleontology and Taphonomy’, develops scientific research along with steady scientific production. Great emphasis is given to the Devonian period, whose rocks outcrops can be seen throughout the Campos Gerais region. However, the collections deposited in the paleontological laboratory also represent geological materials from other periods and other Brazilian sedimentary basins. This material is being properly classified and cataloged. The laboratory staff, fellows and postgraduate students have actively developed field research with funding from agencies, particularly the National Research Council (CNPq). The areas of research being developed are: history of science; paleontology and education; biostratigraphy; paleobiology; micropaleontology; paleoecology; paleoichnology; stratigraphic paleontology, and taphonomy.
This research network has the following general aims: (1) the identification of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional patterns of the organization of species of flora and fauna in biological communities that are characteristic of the Campos Sulinos area and the associated forest ecosystems; (2) the identification of the factors of climate, soil, topography and land use associated with these patterns at different levels of observation; and (3) the prediction of the effects of changes in land use, pasture management and climatic dynamics on these standards and on the related ecosystem processes and environmental services
This research network has the following general aims: (1) the identification of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional patterns of the organization of species of flora and fauna in biological communities that are characteristic of the Campos Sulinos area and the associated forest ecosystems; (2) the identification of the factors of climate, soil, topography and land use associated with these patterns at different levels of observation; and (3) the prediction of the effects of changes in land use, pasture management and climatic dynamics on these standards and on the related ecosystem processes and environmental services. In order to achieve these goals, the participants of the research network will conduct comprehensive qualitative and quantitative surveys, on a regional scale, in the three southern states of Brazil. Biological communities will be evaluated, taking into consideration the assemblages of plants (grassland and woody forest), arthropods, small mammals, anuran amphibians, and birds, as well as some interaction networks. As well as contributing to the expansion of knowledge about biodiversity and the patterns and processes related to it, this approach will evaluate the possibilities of extrapolating experimental results with the control of factors related to the pastoral management of ecosystems in the countryside. The network is coordinated by these researchers, Valerio De Patta Pillar (UFRS), Rafael Trevisan (UFSC), Marcia Marques (UFPR) and Rosemeri Moro (UEPG).