Human settlements in arid environments are becoming widespread due to population growth, and without planning, they may alter vegetation and ecosystem processes, compromising sustainability. We hypothesize that in an arid ...

Internationally, there is an increasing concern with the development of improved ways of dealing with disasters(UNISDR, 2015). Wildfires bring about greater disaster risks at the urban-rural interface of wildfireprone ...

An overview of the regional process made towards the targets and commitments derived from implementation plans and programmes of the main agreements of the Johannesburg Summit and Agenda 21 on human settlements thematic ...

Economic development is reflected in aggressive environmental and spatial dynamics in the cities, and a consequent depletion of rural social space by the loss of population in the last 50 years. Urbanization has caused ...

This paper aims to discuss the formation process of the Tucano settlement, located in the municipality of Euclides da Cunha Paulista, in the west of Sao Paulo State, a region known as Pontal do Paranapanema, where there ...

This research presents the phenomenon of territorialization of two settlements of the Landless Workers Movement; the Annoni Farm Settlement and the Belo Vista Settlement. The main objective of this work was to analyze ...

Brazilian government policies are leading to processes for the creation rural settlements. This paper analyses the impact of these policies on the rural habitat; for this, the administrative mesoregion of Presidente Prudente ...

The Instituto para el Depósito de Valores (INDEVAL) is the Central Securities Depository of Mexico. It is the only Mexican institution authorized to perform in an integrated manner the activities of safe-keeping custody ...

Through empirical observation that identifies the families settled, coming predominantly from the northern half of the state, repeat the production model of the region in the early colonial years in the settlement. ...