Brazilian Landscape

Edited by Felipe Rocha, Leo Porto and Jonás Romo. Emotional Landscapes is a collection of photographs of plants, gardens and designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. These photographs were taken between 2011 and 2017 by Jonás Romo.¿

More than a simple monograph, the authors present a comprehensive geomorphic overview of a large tropical region where they show how deciphering the long-term landform evolution helps understanding the present set of landscapes and morphodynamic environments. The Equatorial margin of the Brazilian “Nordeste” displays stratigraphic landmarks whose interpretation reveals the age and nature of landforms, leading to a reconstruction of the geomorphic history by the means of combined morphostratigraphic and morphopedological approaches. Beyond the role of differential erosion related to moderate post-oceanic opening uplift, the plain and upland landscape reflects a juxtaposition of landform and soil generations related to a shallow basin inversion, the last stages of which occurred in semi-arid conditions since the Oligocene. These results throw light on old debates on models of long-term landform development in platform areas, and also help evaluating recent models of denudation and burial based on thermochronological methods.

Esta obra de Orlando Graeff representa uma profunda e atualizada conexão entre a arte e a ciência, e uma importante contribuição para integrar as percepções e os vínculos entre o homem e a natureza. Com maravilhosas e detalhadas iconografias de diferentes regiões biogeográficas do Brasil e suas paisagens características, os cenários retratados nesta obra nos levam à sensação de "sentir" a natureza e seus elementos, e a uma compreensão da beleza e harmonia das regiões naturais retratadas. This work by Orlando Graeff delivers a deep and up-to-date connection between art and science, as well as an important contribution for integrating the perceptions and ties between mankind and nature. Featuring gorgeous, detailed iconographies of different biogeographic regions in Brazil along with their typical landscapes, the sceneries depicted in this book make us "feel" nature and its elements and hence understand the harmonious beauty of the portrayed regions. (Gustavo Martinelli) Na mais pura tradição das Tabulæ Phisyognomicæ da Flora Brasiliensis de Von Martius, ou dos preciosos registros de Percy Lau e de Margaret Mee, Orlando Graeff pertence a uma espécie sob ameaça de extinção e reúne em seus trabalhos as qualidades necessárias aos objetivos da ilustração científica, que são, em última análise, a conexão entre a busca da expressividade e a necessidade do rigor, entre a composição em sua acepção mais artística e a precisão do registro, entre a aventura da criação livre de regras e fórmulas e a indubitabilidade da verdade científica. In the purest tradition of the Tabulæ Phisyognomicæ in Flora Brasiliensis by Von Martius or the precious records by Percy Lau and Margaret Mee, Orlando Graeff belongs to a threatened species and congregates in his works the qualities needed to the goals of scientific illustration, which ultimately are connect the search for expressivity with the need for rigor, the composition in its most artistic acceptation with record accuracy, the adventure of creation freed from rules and formulas with the indisputability of scientific truth. (José Tabacow)

This book presents the most relevant articles selected from the annals of the symposium. In the last few years, Brazilian Geomorphology has experienced a series of epistemological and methodological innovations expressed by the incorporation of the complexity paradigm, by the progressive break with the climate paradigm, by the emergency role of new theories, and by the advances in methodological fields favored by the adherence to geochronological techniques and in function of the increasingly widespread use of geotechnologies. Furthermore, the Anthropocene/Technogene emerge claims to be more than only a temporal cuts, but as conceptions of a science engaged with social and environmental issues. The National Symposium of Geomorphology, in the maturity of its 13th edition, constitutes a portrait and an important sample of Brazilian geomorphological production, aggregating works carried out in the most diverse types of landscapes of Brazil. The book provides an overview of the current scientific production of Brazilian Geomorphology, highlighting the diversity of landscapes and geoheritage in Brazil, the complexity of the morphogenetic and morphodynamic processes responsible for shaping its surface, and the various abundant methodologies used in geomorphological studies in tropical areas.

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment. It describes the main environmental aspects of Brazil in relation to geology, climate, geomorphology, vegetation, fauna, water resources and environmental issues. The book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical geography of the Amazon Forest, the central Brazilian savannah (Cerrado), the Cocais Forest, the semi-arid area (Caatinga), the Atlantic Forest area, the Pantanal (Brazilian wetlands), the Auraucárias Plateau, the Pampas area (South grasslands) and the Brazilian Coastal Environment (beaches and mangroves).

This book presents Brazil as a country of continental dimensions. Its territory has a large variety of rock types, geological structures and climates. The country has a large variety of landscapes, such as the humid plains of the Amazon River, the dry plateaus of the semi-arid region or the subtropical mountains of the southern region. On the coast, some plateaus and mountains, like the Serra do Mar Mountain range, formed a significant barrier front to access the hinterland of Brazil. On the other side of these coastal plateaus and mountains, there is a large collection of other plateaus, mountains, plains and depressions little altered by human interference. Thus, Brazil has a unique variety of different landscapes and extraordinary geomorphological sites. The book invites readers to learn more about the beautiful Brazilian landscapes, their complexity and vastness.