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The present study developed and applied a specific index for traditional communities management purposes (fishing communities access index - IACP) to evaluate the access of traditional fishing communities in the southern lagoon complex of Santa Catarina, Brazil (CLSC) to local health and commerce services. After to analyse 61 fishing communities, the IACP revealed that 8 communities have severe access restrictions to the services above described. In the other hand, 26 communities presented IACP in transition range and, finally, 27 fishing communities showed optimal access conditions to the local commerce and public health. The study concluded that the use of geoprocessing associate with a specific indicator can contribute to the formulation of territory management policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From June 10th to 12th, 2019, the Geography course of the Federal University of Alfenas - UNIFAL / MG received the V GEOSIMPÓSIO and III GEOTRANS to discuss conflicts and territorial inequalities in contemporary society. There were three days of robust debates, focused on the political dimension of the geographical space and the participation of important intellectuals from Brazilian Geography, such as teacher Maria Adélia de Souza, who presented the closing conference with the necessary discussion on "Socio-spatial inequalities and the constitution of places in cities". On the morning of the last day of the event, Maria Adélia gave the following interview, in which she portrays her trajectory in Brazilian Geography, discusses the crisis that this area of knowledge faces and reinforces the importance of the New Geography built by Professor Milton Santos as possibility of overcoming it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at analyzing the effects of the Brazilian economic crisis, mainly characterized in the period from 2012 to 2015, on territorial distribution of transformation industry in Rio Grande do Sul State. The central hypothesis is that the crisis faced by the sector has slowed down the process of deconcentration that had begun in the previous decade, thus generating an inflection trend in the process that had formed the so-called Porto Alegre-Caxias do Sul-Passo Fundo Expanded Axis. The employment data from 2012 to 2015, provided by the Annual Information of Social Information (RAIS) of the Ministry of Labor and Employment of Brazil (MTE), was the analyzes bases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]