Center for Agrarian and Cultural Studies - ARCA
ARCA is a research group formed by professionals from public and private higher education institutions in Brazil, whose interest is focused on the study of agrarian and cultural issues, with Latin America as its reference scale. Contact with researchers from other countries is made via the Alexander Von Humboldt Study Center, based in Buenos Aires, where members of the group are effective members and participate annually in the International Meetings promoted by this entity, which results in the publication of the journal Meridiano. The relationship with Brazilian universities takes shape in the FURG Master's Program in Geography, in collegial work, in the curricular components and in the research guidance of undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The group's main objectives are: the formation of an institutional group for the study and exchange of experiences on research related to agrarian issues; creation of a space for discussion with academics from undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Geography; dissemination of research at local, national and international events, mainly in Latin American countries; insertion into society through studies and dissemination of sustainable agricultural practices.
Urban Analysis Center - NAUC
The idea of forming the URBAN AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS CENTER arose from the need to fill an existing gap at our university in a field of studies that has been receiving the attention of multidisciplinary teams and the formation of research centers from other institutions nationally and internationally. specific. This group must necessarily include researchers from different disciplines, since the city and the urban environment are multifaceted realities, their study and interpretation being the task of different sciences, without monopolies of any nature. Thus, it is necessary to juxtapose different perspectives on the city and the urban as study objectives, highlighting their content as historical, geographic, cultural, artistic, political, economic, social, anthropological, ecological and psychological objects. Furthermore, we consider the need for continuity and convergence of lines of research, projects and discussions that have already been worked on and that demarcate the academic and intellectual trajectories of the group's leading researchers. Our reference point for analysis will be the city of Rio Grande, with its urban history in movement, a meeting point for different ethnic, social, cultural and technological currents. Evidently, our theory and practice will not be exhausted in Rio Grande and its surroundings, as more than ever it is necessary to connect the local with the global, the particular with the general, verifying their interdependencies. Therefore, both classical theories and the most recent readings about the city and the urban will be the object of study by the research group.
Lines of Research: The City and the Imaginary. Restructuring and Morphology of Urban Space. Industrial and Territorial Restructuring
Work, Territory, Culture and Gender
Climatology and Cartography Laboratory - LaCCa
The Climatology and Cartography Laboratory (LaCCa) is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Éder Leandro Bayer Maier and is located at Campus Carreiros, Pavilion 6, room 6223A. The total area is 36 m2 and has a room dedicated to student work, where there are three computers, study tables and teaching materials and another room designed for equipment development and sample storage. Currently (2019/1) LACCA is made up of 2 professors, 5 master's students and 4 undergraduates who work predominantly in climatology and cartography, which are the laboratory's main areas of activity. Since LaCCa has two general objectives, which are: 1) collect and analyze metrological and climatological data to understand the climate variability of South America. Scientific investigations will be divided into three scales, continental, regional and local in order to explore the teleconnections of the climates of South America with the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and high latitude areas of the Southern Hemisphere, understand the regional atmospheric processes that cause disturbances in the environmental system and investigate extreme events that affect the municipality of Rio Grande – RS and nearby areas, respectively and 2) collect data and generate cartographic products to represent the spatial and temporal variation of natural phenomena and land uses and occupation. Thematic Cartography, Remote Sensing and the Geographic Information System will be used as tools for representing, obtaining, interpreting and relating cartographic data in order to support efficient environmental planning. Additionally, there is a concern in academic training of each student, exploring their skills and competencies, therefore, LaCCa develops different research projects, but which converge towards personal and scientific evolution. Finally, cooperation with other research laboratories stands out, such as the Polar and Climatic Center (UFRGS), the city hall and the National Institute of Cryosphere Science and Technology.
GEOMORPHOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES (HYDROMORPH)
The Geomorphology and Water Resources research group (HIDROMORFO) is made up of the following professors (and their respective advisees): Dr. Ulisses Rocha de Oliveira (leader – ICHI-FURG); Dr. Simone Emiko Sato (ICHI-FURG); Dr. Miguel da Guia Albuquerque (IF-Campus Rio Grande).
The research group presents three lines of research:
1) Coastal geomorphology: Carry out geomorphological mapping in coastal areas (ocean and lagoon coasts); Analyze the dynamics of coastal sedimentary environments and relate it to the action of active physical-natural and anthropic processes. Characterize the impacts of beach erosion and sedimentation on urbanized shores.
2) Geomorphology and planning: Relate land use to different geomorphological units; Disseminate geomorphological mapping as a planning tool; Carry out purposeful studies to minimize or recover coastal areas that have suffered environmental impacts of human origin.;
3) Hydrogeomorphology: Influence of hydrodynamic agents on coastal geomorphology (ocean and lagoon coasts); characterization and dynamics of small coastal drainage networks (bleeding channels); mapping and environmental analysis of coastal wetlands. Characterization of drainage networks in spas. Each search line will consist of sub-search lines.
The HIDROMORFO group aims to meet the teaching and research demands that have been created in recent years in the Geography Courses of this Institute and University. Among the activities developed by the research group, the following stand out: the development of research projects, the training of human resources, the development of activities that strengthen scientific research and the exchange of information, the publication of scientific articles in journals specialists.
Integrated Actions Group on Coastal Management - GAIGERCO
The Group of Integrated Actions in Coastal Management - GAIGERCO is a Research Group registered and certified by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq. The Group is coordinated by Prof. Dr. João Luiz Nicolodi and is located on the Carreiros Campus, Building of the Geological Oceanography Center of the Institute of Oceanography. The total area is 30 m2 and has a room dedicated to student work, where there are three desktop computers and 2 laptop computers, a total station, semi-professional photographic equipment and study tables and teaching materials.
Over the four-year period, GAIGERCO is made up of three professors from FURG, 4 professors from other universities (external), and a variable number of students who work predominantly in coastal management and geography. The Group operates mainly at a theoretical level through the preparation of studies relating to the evaluation of planning, control, technical support and inspection instruments, identifying the effectiveness of their respective processes, as well as the need for adaptations or creation of new mechanisms management.
The Group also works to promote social awareness actions related to Coastal Management through, for example, scientific, educational and communication publications, including through the establishment of partnerships between national and international government and research institutions aiming to replicate the good Coastal Management practices and contribute to decision-making at municipal, state and federal levels. Furthermore, special attention is paid to the academic training of each student, encouraging participation in research networks and specific subgroups so that they can develop their skills and competencies.
GAIGERCO has several cooperations with other institutions, with emphasis on UFRGS, UFSC, UFPE, ICMBIO, MMA, etc. Details can be seen at: www.gaigerco.furg.br
Fisheries Geographies Network
The Fisheries Geographies Network was built during ENG – 2012, in Belo Horizonte, in the Space for Dialogues and Practices - EDP: Traditional communities: fishermen, riverside dwellers and caiçaras. Geographers from several Brazilian states participated and are dedicated to understanding and studying fishing in the national territory.
The fishing issue contributes to a new reading of the national territory, traditionally and geographically defined in the affirmation of “demographic gaps”. This statement, common to Geography when talking about Brazil, ends up making fishermen, quilombolas, small farmers and collectors and so many other invisible populations that give social, economic and cultural meaning through their spatialities and historicities to the social production of the Brazilian territory.
There are many fishermen, different and similar, from north to south of Brazil. This is a social group that contributes to the thinking of Geographic Science: understanding fishing territories is understanding waters as territory. Understand their daily lives, their routes, their ways of working, living and being sociable. Understanding their histories, their stories, their conflicts in the face of exclusionary modernization and ongoing development is a methodological and epistemological possibility in the construction of a new geographic practice in the encounter with the many cartographies of possible actions in the social struggle for visibility, otherness and the right . Right for life, collective life, work and culture.
This network, therefore, is open to continued debate, the exchange of experiences, the exchange of texts, contexts and bibliographic references, geoiconographies and videos. Its purpose is the national construction of knowledge about fishing based on geographic science.
Teaching, Research and Extension Center (R)Environmental and Territorial Existences - (R)EAT
The Center for Teaching, Research and Extension of (R)Environmental and Territorial Existences seeks to contribute to the promotion of emergencies for subjects who have systematically had their existence denied, both in geographic science and in access to public policies that should address their specificities . In teaching, the core focuses on theoretical and methodological approaches in Geography, their limits and possibilities in understanding subjects differentiated by their relationship with nature and territorial dynamics. It also understands the Brazilian population as diverse, therefore it deserves to be treated based on ethnic, racial, gender, generation and class discussions, to contribute to overcoming socio-spatial inequalities. In research, the core starts with the question “who to research with?”. These partners in projects and research actions are original peoples, traditional communities, and other groups that find themselves in a situation of social invisibility, in the countryside and in the city, such as segregated populations in peripheral areas, and immigrants/refugees. In the established dialogue, the concepts of environment and territory will make it possible to understand the spatialities of subjects, how they resist in their territories, and the role of self-identification in guaranteeing territorial rights. In extension, the programs, projects and actions will be developed based on concrete demands from social groups, based on the strategies they establish to escape situations of invisibility. In this way, the nucleus constitutes a space for dialogue between university and community, especially understanding the importance of these moments for the training of geographers with social commitment.