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The Colapso research group focuses on strengthening Geography as a scientific branch that integrates the physical and human dimension, the insertion and consolidation of this Geography in the Brazilian and international context. Promote dialogue between epistemic, scientific, identity and traditional knowledge. Contribution to academic training with an emancipatory bias. Expansion and Consolidation of the public, free, inclusive and socially referenced university.
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Why Rainfall Alone Cannot Explain Landslide Disasters in Salvador, Brazil
Research by the COLAPSO group links mass movements, infrastructure, and racial inequalities in Salvador, revealing the limits of risk management focused on emergency response. During Salvador’s rainy season, plastic sheeting stretched across hillsides is a familiar...
61,000 Linear Water Erosion Foci Reveal Critical Areas of Soil Degradation in Mato Grosso, Brazil
A study published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms maps linear water erosion across the state and shows how relief, soils, and mismatches between land use and agricultural land capability help explain the concentration of rills, ravines, and gullies. In a...
Soils and landforms in the semiarid region reveal landscapes of the past
A study published in Catena shows how soils, landforms, and ferruginous crusts help reconstruct the evolution of a sedimentary plateau in Northeast Brazil and reveal a landscape that cannot be explained by the current semiarid climate aloneWhen we think of the...
Meet our team
We return to face-to-face meetings in 2023, our meeting schedule is available here link.
The meetings are open and we discuss topics related to our research and geographic methodologies. Anyone interested in researching with us can attend meetings and talk to us to indicate the possibilities, which involve Scientific Initiation, Voluntary Scientific Initiation, Course Completion Work and Master’s degrees, subject to the university’s availability and calendar.