Posts Tagged ‘geography’

Cartographic Language

May 29th, 2026

Bibliographical revision: The Cartography, defined for Joly (2008, P. 07) as ‘ ‘ the art to conceive, of raising, to write and to divulge mapas’ ‘ , for being directly on Geography allows to represent the geographic space in the paper through the cartographic language, that according to Joly (2008 P. 19), ‘ ‘ it consists of a conventional arrangement of the spots significativas’ ‘. In the education of Geography, this cartographic language makes possible the pupil to develop the capacity of perception through the symbology, leaving initially of its space of experience for the posterior understanding of the space geographic as a whole. Being thus, the use of such cartographic tool makes with that this process if becomes indispensable to reach the levels necessary to the construction of geographic knowing and consequentemente to improve and to enrich the education of Geography.

However, the development of the cartographic language in the education process/learning of Geography is important since the beginning of the escolaridade, because beyond contributing so that the pupils understand and use the maps it also are necessary as the same ones can in such a way develop relative abilities to the reading of the geographic space how much its space representation. Material and Methods: The employed method consists of the descriptive analysis and bibliographical survey with intention to argue the importance of the cartographic language in the process education/learning of Geography. *Graduanda of the third year of the course of Licenciatura in Geography, UEG/UnUCSEH – Anpolis (GO). Conclusions: The cartography in itself became important in education contemporary, as much pupil to understand the necessities to it of its daily one how much to study the environment where if it lives. Being thus, to acquire knowledge the importance of the cartographic language in the lessons of Geography and consequentemente to improve the implantation of the cartography in the pertaining to school and space context he is something that deserves great relevance of the geographic point of view, a time that the development of the space notion and its representation say respect the improvements of life for the society.

Natural Sciences

May 14th, 2026

The cartography probably is the oldest representation of the geographic thought. Since daily pay-history the man searchs ways to represent to the nature through a writing, in the case of the cartography the writing through the drawing of maps. The first maps were made in wood, sculptured or painted. These maps were of great utility mainly for the landmark of hunting territories and fish. The cartography had a moment of bigger growth and improvements in its techniques of representation of the areas in the antiquity from the one of the territorial exspansionism, mainly of Germany and France. From the great discoveries of century XVI the man had a bigger knowledge of the dimensions of the planet and thus the cartography had conditions of being a more including knowledge in what respect to the size of the area represented in its maps is said.

Leaving of conception of that the maps of century XVI had had the main function to represent the areas discovered in the great navigations, the cartography only leaves of being a science that if worry in representing the nature and also pass to represent the activities human beings, in this in case that it represents the discoveries made for the navigators. In this period of navigations the maps were considered true treasures of its native countries, therefore they were of basic importance for the accomplishment of new discoveries. Thus the pioneering countries in the trips of territorial expanses, such as Portugal, Spain and England possuam vast collections of maps and nautical letters that were kept as state secrets. Since the great navigations the cartography suffered varies ideological, philosophical modifications and geographic, being the main a modification of the language used in the maps, such changes had influenced mainly in what it says respect to the character of state secret that was applied to the maps.

Africa: Great Investments

February 23rd, 2026

THE AFRICAN CONTINENT: MAIN ATTRACTION OF the INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENTS, ALSO BRAZILIAN Fbio Dos Reis Garczarek world-wide the economic crisis has accented the disposal of replanejamento in the market of international investments in the developed countries, this work aims at to especially clarify the economic context of the African continent and its international relations before other countries and Brazil. In this context, Africa if detaches as a new border and also as a challenge for the too much developing countries. The investments in the African countries if make, in a generalized manner, in the sector of commodities. However, areas as technology of the information and infrastructure have gained each time more relevance. Such transformations alone had been possible through the local politics of support the foreign companies, as the creation of Agencies of Promotion the financial Investments and corporative management. These agencies had contributed and invested in sectors that stimulate all the economy of African continent, as well as politics of improvement of the image of the African countries front to the investors.

Some African countries had received greater have detached in recent years. Hunger was pointed by the Organization of United Nations (ONU) as one of the countries that more acted in the reduction of the social assimetrias, got a great economic cooperation. In 2005, the country closes agreement with multilateral organisms and gets the cancellation of its divides external. In 2006, the Chinese first-minister Wen Jiabao announces the loan of 66 million dollar for projects in the area of telecommunications in Hunger. In 2007, the World Bank approves economic aid of 110 million dollar for this African nation. In March of 2008, the country receives millions from dollar for investment in sustainable agriculture, and still and gans president Kufuor and Luiz Incio Silva Lula da Silva, of Brazil, had inaugurated headquarters of the Company (Embrapa), in Acra, and signs agreement for the production of biocombustvel oil, being great transformations and advance, route to the social development, economic politician and of the African continent.