Estrutura, processo, função e forma no setor agrário do noroeste do Rio Grande do Sul

• Main Authors: Sidnei Luís Bohn Gass, Roberto Verdum, Jussara Mantelli
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Confins 2014-03-01
• Series: Confins
• Subjects: agrarian geography; environment legislation; Northwest of State Rio Grande do Sul; soil settlement and usage
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/confins/8879

Structure, process, function and form in the agrarian sector in the nortwest of Rio Grande do Sul -Integration and employing of the concepts and methods of Geography often are very complex, especially when using referential contexts that comprise a wide range of academic immersion. Often this may complicate the understanding of certain events in a broader study setting, in particular because it requires recovering some history that might help in defining today settings in which certain segments of society act. This paper intends to evaluate how did develop understanding and applying of the Brazilian Forest Code, Federal Law No. 4771 dated Nov 15, 1965, repealed in 2012, and, on the other side, how the usage und settlement process of the territory in the Northwestern region of Rio Grande do Sul took place. To make this study possible, we took the European settlement process in Rio Grande do Sul, the migratory flux, deforestation, agriculture activities as well as degradation and the environmental conscience in these times acquired as a basis. The connections required to understand both scenes assumed, the process of soil occupation and usage and the evolution of the forest code, will be found through the writings of Milton Santos (1985), who discusses structure, process, function and form as categories of the geographic method. The discussions the author posed will allow to identify several periods existent in the posed scenes and disturbs therein. The relations that establish between structure, process, function and form, soil occupation and usage aspects and the understanding and applying of environment legislation assume the concept of space that establishes an objective reality that is a social product of a permanent transformation process. As space imposes its own reality, it is obvious that there are at least two different rhythms to be considered in the posed issues of regional investigation: time spent for regional settlement - that renders the conflict with nature under the view of its occupation - and that will bear new forms plain of furrows that will tell the future history of the region; the political time - presented by public politics and legal evolution - that happens left far behind regional development. It behooves the researchers to follow the applying of the new laws and adjustments to them to allow the continuity of the evaluations begun in this paper.