Professors from Maranhao State University – UEMA take part this week in the workshop “Promoting land use and sustainable development in the eastern Amazon from Unicamp and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.
At the international event, researchers gather to discuss topics related to sustainable development and the Amazon.
On March 14, UEMA Professor of Architecture Carlos Frederico Lago Burnett, who presented “Soil use and DS in São Luis, Maranhão, 1970-2020”, participated in the programme, Director of Environmental Studies and Mapping at the Maranhans Institute of Socio-Economics. Cartographic Studies – IMESC, José de Ribamar Carvalho dos Santos, who addressed “IMESC Studies on the Maranhão Amazon Region”; Researcher from Embrapa Cocais, António Carlos Reyes de Freitas, speaking on “Land use change in the eastern Amazon” and Fabricio Souza Silva of the State Secretariat for the Environment and Natural Resources – SEMA with discussions on “Environmental Diagnostics of APA da Baixada Maranhense: Analysis from the Barometer of Sustainability and Land Coverage “.
For Carlos Freitas (Embrapa Cocais), the Academy has a lot to contribute with qualified information. “I noticed a lot of convergence between the presentations. There is complementarity. We can make an effort to look, in developing the research, for the different ways that can complement each other in re-reading what is Maranhao Amazon,” he comments.
For Professor Frederico Burnett, the moment was very fruitful, with presentations on the Maranhão, with the diverse groups of municipalities in the Amazon biome and their land use and occupation processes, agriculture, ecological reserves, ports and industrial activities. “Important contributions to the knowledge and understanding of the transformations that are taking place that will affect nature and the lives of all of us,” he says.
The workshop will continue with the schedule until March 16th. On this day, Graduate Program Professor of Geography, Nature and Space Dynamics – PPGEO and Supervisor of International Relations, Silas Nogueira de Mello, presents “The importance of protected areas by Brazilian states to reduce deforestation in the Amazon.”
Written by: Alessandra Medina – SRI/UEMA
