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A Contribuição de Leo Waibel para o Conhecimento da Colonização Agrária no Brasil do Séc. XX

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Author	Kohlhepp, Gerd
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	At the height of his scientific career, Leo Waibel was fired in 1937 from his chair of geography because of political reasons by the Nazi administration of the University of Bonn and banned from performing any activities at German universities. In exile in the United States (1939-46) he worked in research and was invited in 1946 by the Conselho Nacional de Geografia in Rio de Janeiro as scientific consultant of this government institution. With his working group of talented young Brazilian geographers he addressed the topics of agrarian colonization and land use as well as the paradigm of Brazilian agriculture, using only forests for agrarian colonization and campos areas for extensive cattle ranching. He started intensive research on smallholders ́ problems, being ignored in Brazil so far. In Goiás the conditions for agrarian colonization in the “Mato Grosso de Goiás” and the possibilities of land use on the Campos cerrados were studied. Research on the Planalto Central enabled the contract for an expedition to define the location of the future capital of Brazil. Afterwards Waibel focused his attention on the fundamentals of European colonization in Southern Brazil and the different land use systems. Reasons for the small number of successful smallholdings were errors in the location of settlement areas without considering landscape elements and climatic conditions, small plots, inheritance by equal division and distance to market centers. Analyzing the dynamic pioneer zones in South, Southeast A Contribuição de Leo Waibel para o Conhecimento da Colonização Agrária no Brasil do Séc. XX
Starting Page	69
Ending Page	87
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.21664/2238-8869.2019v8i3.p69-87
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://periodicos.unievangelica.edu.br/index.php/fronteiras/article/download/3426/2684
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.21664/2238-8869.2019v8i3.p69-87
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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