Amazons Within The Amazon – A Multiscale Assessment of Urbanization
Speaker: Dr. Roberta Mendonça De Carvalho
PhD Alumna, Department of Geography, University of Florida
Thursday, November 14, 2019
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall Room 3018
University of Florida
All are welcome to attend.
Urbanization in the Brazilian Amazon has reached 80%. This is a recent and rather intensive process. At the same we see population increase, we see the fortification of the hydropower system. But how and where this urbanization is reshaping the profile of the rainforest? And what is the role of hydropower in stimulating urbanization?