masterThesis
Cartografia histórica da vegetação do Rio Grande do Norte: análise documental e geoespacial para a gestão do território (século XX)
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SILVA, Adielson Pereira da. Cartografia histórica da vegetação do Rio Grande do Norte: análise documental e geoespacial para a gestão do território (século XX). 2020. 204f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Silva, Adielson Pereira da
Resumen
The terrestrial vegetation cover has long aroused the interest of humanity, which in the course
of time has turned to it in different ways for the knowledge of its biological, ecological and
geographical characteristics, in addition to discovering the potential for its exploration. In the
midst of this constellation of interests, Cartography arrives in the 20th century consolidated as
an important technical tool for reading, interpreting and planning land cover, serving in the
identification of floristic groups and their explanation in conjunction with the other spatial
elements, starting from this serving the current challenge of addressing the needs for use and
preservation. Marking several occasions in the course of that century, the vegetation maps of
Rio Grande do Norte prepared by institutions such as the IOCS (works against droughts), the
SUDENE (regional planning), RADAMBRASIL, mapping of natural resources; among others,
they are a reflection and process of this search for knowledge for planned action. In view of
this, this dissertation was based on the objective of understanding the role of vegetation
coverage cartography, elaborated by governmental institutions, in the constitution and
socioenvironmental management of potiguar territory. To this end, a multi-referential
methodological basis was established, composed of the precepts of the History of Cartography,
in the analysis of the context of ancient maps, and of Geospatial Analysis, applied to Landsat
products obtained in the last 16 years of the century. The examination of the cartographic set
presented the vegetation maps as part of the technical environment, which sheds light on the
elements of interest to society, whether economic or ecological, while the contours of the
anthropization process are also recorded. In view of this, the empiry also reaffirmed the
epistemological and theoretical dimensions of cartography - respectively related to knowledge
and interpretation and analysis -, since both the old pieces and those elaborated for the study
supported the geographic reflection of the socio-environmental processes, allowing the
understanding the transformations and restructuring that have occurred in certain places in the
territory of Rio Grande do Norte, whose reflections are observed in the landscape and in the
region, but which in territorial management allow them to be thought of as a resource and tool.