Geografia e Peregrinação / Geography and Pilgrimage

Geography and public health in Brazil Geografia e saúde coletiva no Brasil

This article analyzes the importance of Geography for research in Public Health in Brazil. Through a bibliographical narrative review, the author describes the key topics addressed, grouping the selected articles of the most important Brazilian journals in Public Health – Revista de Saúde Pública, Cadernos de Saúde Pública e Saúde e Sociedade – by geographical approaches. It also discusses the ...

The Geography of Buddhist Pilgrimage in Asia

Pilgrimage Places and Sacred Geometries

My science pilgrimage.

Most scientists can point to several important milestones in their careers. Looking back on my journey through the realm of science, I find there have been five important turning points. The first was the period from 1962 to 1965 that I spent as a Fulbright Research Associate at Michigan State University (MSU). In the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at Kyoto University I had been studying ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...