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Frederico Freitas

Historian of Latin America

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Boundaries of Nature

September 24, 2014 by fredericofreitas

Landscape Change in Southern Brazil, from 1953 to the Present DaySixty years of landscape change in the Iguaçu National Park, Brazil The Iguaçu National Park was created between 1939 and 1944 by the Brazilian national government at the border with Argentina. The creation of the park was disputed by the local state government, which, in the late 1950s, started to settle hundreds of families of Brazilians farmers inside park area. This later resulted in a conflicted process of removal and […]

Categories: History • Tags: Animation, Argentina, Deforestation, Graphic Design, History, Land Use, National Park, Visualization

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840

November 18, 2011 by fredericofreitas

Land Use and Deforestation in Southeastern Brazil — 1753-1840[1] This article analyzes the pressure of farming on tropical forests in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil. Making use of GIS technology, it was possible to create a map for the South Central of the Minas Gerais province and geocode historical data for agriculture and livestock production. We have found an association between corn and swine production in areas of forest, and we suggest a correlation of the practices of slash-and-burn agriculture, pig […]

Categories: History • Tags: 18 Century, 19th Century, Deforestation, History, Land Use, Minas Gerais

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I am a historian and associate professor of digital and Latin American history at North Carolina State University.

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