Topic 4: Environment and Society

4.1 THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT—ORIGINS AND PROCESSES

  • Geology and geomorphology

  • Weather and hydrography

  • Soils development

  • Biodiversity and natural core areas (Domínios Morfoclimáticos) in Brazil. (Amazonia, Mares de Morro, Caatinga, Cerrado, Pradarias e Mata de Araucárias) and transition areas (Pantanal e Mata dos Cocais)

4.2 THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT—HUMAN ACTIVITY AND ITS IMPACTS

  • Natural resources: the role of mineral and energy resources in economic development and in the environment

  • In urban areas (heat islands, temperature inversion, microclimates, acid rain, water pollution)

  • In rural areas (the expansion and modernization of rural activities and their impact on the physical environment: soil erosion and degradation, desertification, deforestation and river sedimentation, use of agro-chemicals)

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