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The coastal strip of the western peri-urban area of Barranquilla in the Atlántico Department (Colombia) is experiencing changes in human-environment interactions through infrastructure, residential, and tourism projects in a vulnerable... more
In Kenya, environmental degradation has occurred at an alarming rate in areas such as the Mau Forest, the home of the majority of the Ogiek people. Traditionally, the Ogiek are hunter-gatherers and have distinctive histories of... more
SUMMARY It has been noted that it is becoming increasingly difficult to attract the required number of Geomatics students in various university department s around the world. Consequently, several universities have either closed their... more
Although branded as ‘obstructionists’ and major agents of ‘disease and filth’ by city authorities, food vendors remain the pivotal node in the local food system in most informal settlements; therefore, their interaction with the... more
A compreensão geográfica que elaboramos da realidade considera que cada momento histórico dos processos de usos do território tem a marca de suas técnicas. O fenômeno técnico é apresentado frente às diferentes transformações vivenciadas... more
Trabalho apresentado no XIV ENANPUR - Encontro Nacional da ANPUR, Maio de 2011, Rio de Janeiro
There is an increasing interest in the use of information technology as a participatory planning tool, particularly the use of geographical information technologies to support collaborative activities such as community mapping. However,... more
Recentemente, mapeamentos colaborativos se tornaram uma peça fundamental na produção e democratização do acesso a dados geográficos. Mapas com dados abertos, editáveis e acessíveis por qualquer pessoa podem ser uma importante ferramenta... more
The article pertains to the tax issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic in respect of cross-border workers. The main issue is the impact of the restriction in cross-border movements during the pandemic on the determination of the place... more
Entering the European Union, the Republic of Croatia took over the INSPIRE directive called the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. A large amount of spatial data can be found through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Geoportal.... more
This dissertation is a historico-ethnography of a musical category called “salidummay,” a cohort of folk songs that have been performed widely, although not evenly, in the northern Luzon highlands as well as outside the region. This study... more
Recentemente, mapeamentos colaborativos se tornaram uma peça fundamental na produção e democratização do acesso a dados geográficos. Mapas com dados abertos, editáveis e acessíveis por qualquer pessoa podem ser uma importante ferramenta... more
Although branded as ‘obstructionists’ and major agents of ‘disease and filth’ by city authorities, food vendors remain the pivotal node in the local food system in most informal settlements; therefore, their interaction with the... more
Vulnerability index mapping seeks to understand the multidimensional (economic, social, political) and multi-level (individual, household, community or group) issues over a given area under impacts of climate change. In combination with... more
Even though it is sometimes argued that synonymy is undesirable in legal language, legal language is not devoid of it. In fact, legal language involves cases of syntactical synonymy and lexical synonymy as well as cases of absolute and... more
Causa is a subjective motive that determines the content of the obligation or material interest, which encourages the party to the trade to enter into an obligation taking on the associated burdens. In the countries of continental... more
The value of grassroots involvement in climate-related decision-making has received attention in several official climate policy documents starting from Art. 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (UN,... more
Waqaf is a part of philanthropy which contributes directly to the economic development as well as the prosperity of ummah. Waqaf is also a unique property redistribution mechanism because there are no elements of obligations, laws and... more
This article explores the importance of geographical indications within the new trade policy of the European Union, using the example of the CETA and the dispute over Cypriot halloumi cheese. The authors point out that geographical... more
Evento realizado pela Associação Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (ANCIB) e organizado pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Informação da Universidade Federal da Bahia (PPGCI/UFBA).A geoinformação, informação dotada... more
Trabalho apresentado no Simpósio 10 da VI Reunião da SAB Nordeste 2020
We have been developing web-based GIS/database (WebGD) applications that allow users to insert, query, update, and delete geographical features and the data associated with them from standard Web browsers. The code shared by these... more
As with many other sciences, the field of cartography has developed based on the exclusion of other forms of knowledge of the people from the South. The purpose of this article is to discuss Participatory Mapping (Social cartography) both... more
Although branded as ‘obstructionists’ and major agents of ‘disease and filth’ by city authorities, food vendors remain the pivotal node in the local food system in most informal settlements; therefore, their interaction with the... more