GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES

Author: PINHA ÁLVAREZ JOSÉ LUIS.
Year: 2001.
University: EXTREMADURA.
Place of defense: FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS.

Summary: In this research are discussed in devalle incidences of water on large infrastructure disadvantaged regions. Refierese specifically to the impacts of Alqueva dam (the largest in Europe) on the region of Alentejo (Portugal). These impacts are of a social, economic and environmental authorities, which will result in synergies and moving in all these facets.

Author: OLIVEIRA ADARY.
Year: 2004.
University: BARCELONA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA I HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: UNIVERSIDAD DE BARCELONA.

Summary: The investments to ensure the expansion of productive capacity, and consequently promote an increase in national income, is WI0de the main problems facing emerging or underdeveloped countries, such as Brazil. The choice of a policy of replacing the inlportaciones that the government directed towards the identification of national priorities resulted in the seventies, in a series of sectoral programs, including the Siderúrgico National, the non-Ferrous Metals, cellulose and Paper, Capital Assets and the Petrochemical. At that time, industrialization was strengthened with the use of the existing demand in the domestic market for industrial goods imported to become replaced by products manufactured in the country. The reserve market obtained through establecinliento high aliquots of inlportación, subsidized funding, targeted at enterprises national command and control, generated in the eighties, a substantial trade surplus. After 35 years since the creation of Petroquisa, arm of the government responsible for inlplantación Polo petro-CamaÇari And more than 1 / 4 of a century since the inauguration of Copene, the company responsible for the production of petrochemicals and basic supplies such industrial complex This raises the question of conducting academic research, a doctoral dissertation, to assess the real importance of this Pole in promoting regional development. This paper describes the petrochemical industry, defined as the chemical industry in the oil. It describes the origin and the inlplantación the Brazilian petrochemical, recounting the major initiatives of the industry in the state of Sao Paulo and citing the facts that detem1inaron the inlplantación pole petrochemicals in the Northeast region. with its privatization, mergers and incorporations. When was referring to the influence of the Petrochemical Pole of Cama9ari in the process of urbanization and regional development in the metropolitan area of Salvador, made a theoretical introduction on the issues of urbanization and development, focusing on the regional concentrations (the poles) and geographic clusters (centers). The reorgmúzación sector of the metropolitan area of Salvador as a result of the introduction of the Petrochemical Pole of CamaÇari, form the backbone of the work analyze its various aspects: partners, banks, government, NGO's, partners, community, consumers and suppliers. It was an analysis of what happened with each of those segments, in the metropolitan area of Salvador, from 1975 to 2000, from inlplantación Polo until such time as they reached maturity. Finally, challenges and hopes. The Petrochemical Pole of Cama9ari has its problems, but not lost hope of representing an effective tool in promoting economic development and social progress in the region.

Author: MÁYER SUÁREZ PABLO LUCAS.
Year: 2004.
University: LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.
Place of preparation: FACULTA DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA.

Summary: To discriminate episodes of heavy rain were established thresholds for maximum precipitation in 24 hours, according to the different environments of Gran Canaria. At a later stage, we proceeded to the analysis of the state of the atmosphere and its relation to the spatial distribution of rainfall. In order to determine the damage caused during episodes of rain selected consulted various historical sources: newspapers and records processed damages from the government in Las Palmas. The analysis of weather situations responsible for episodes of rain evidence that the cold depressions in height, vaguadas of polar air and maritime arctic sea and vaguadas of retrograde evolution of continental polar air are responsible for the heavy rain in Gran Canaria, establishing the spatial distribution of these in each type. With regard to the damage, the main findings of this study show that the occupation and transformation of the territory implies the generation of various risks, which vary according to type of occupation of space, both in distribution and in the various sectors of activity affected. Here, the improper interventions in the middle, without appropriate follow-anticipation, coupled with the absence of measures from planning to cover the various risks, brings together the occurrence of flooding in many parts of urban areas, along with other risks associated with gravitational movements in the lines of communication.

Author: MARTIN FERNÁNDEZ CARLOS SANTIAGO.
Year: 2005.
University: LA LAGUNA.
Place of defense: DEPARTAMENTO DE GEOGRAFÍA.
Place of preparation: DEPARTAMENTO DE GGEOGRAFIA, FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFIA E HISTORIA.

Summary: The island of El Hierro, the island has been forgotten, not only from the socio-economic point of view but also scientific. For centuries not just experienced transformations remaining untouched by the changes that acontecían in the rest of the islands and manteniéndose as productive space for the subsistence with little domestic exports regional level. Since the sixties of the twentieth century, there is a change in their economic structures, social and geographical inconsistent with the organization precapitalista preexisting, however, continue to influence the reorganization socioterritorial. Following the presentation of the theoretical framework analyzes the natural and social foundations, dialectically linked in the explanation of drought herreña. The study of historical dry, the structure of ownership of the relations of production and development of the productive forces to establish a characterization of the company and the territorial organization herreña. Analysis Plan Adoption and projects autárquicos reveal their importance in the continuation of backwardness island. Subsequently discusses the development stage that, starting delos sixties, broke the traditional system of selective use of its resources, highlighting the role of the State, opportunities and agents investors influence of internal and external factors. Finally describes the change of the model socioterritorial through the study of communication infrastructures, the population structure and the fledgling tourism development.

Author: MARIA ISABEL FERNANDEZ GARRIDO.
Year: 2006.
University: CANTABRIA.
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE FILOSOFIA Y LETRAS.

Summary: The thesis is divided into three blocks. The first focuses on the fundamentals, concepts and ways of managing natural hazards, and the second deals with the treatment of risks in the European Union, through the development of management tools and the participation of the institutions or agencies with responsibilities in the art in France, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. In the third block is performed a comparative analysis of European experience and explains the processes of development and management of some of the best known natural disasters. This analysis allows known methodologies and the different phases of the cycle of risk in the countries studied. Finally, after the findings were provided statistical annexes and legislative and scholarly literature on the subject.