Roberto Barboza Castanho

Rio Grande do Sul: uma proposta de regionalização geoeconômica

The regional approach reflects the society-nature inter-relation in different nuances going from the onstruction of the geographical space. The focus of the research was defined from the objectives proposed for the regional analysis, once the same embodies the human aspects and the relations that mantain between each other in the production and reproduction of the space. Having as central focus the southern regional matter (in Rio Grande do Sul), it was proposed the regionalization of the state, considering its geoeconomical aspects. Such proposition of study divided seven geoeconomic regions and sub-regions, in which the main productive activities of the state were developed, based, mainly, in farming. Considering the transformations imposed here by capital, as reorganizer agent of the spacial standards, and responsible for its flexibility, front to the requirements imposed by the globalization process, it was tried to classify the geoeconomic regions according to its dynamics and according the new economic agents that are inserted in this space. It was possible to observe that, therefore, the similarities and singularities materialized in the state territory throught the accumulation of practices turned to the economical production, strictly linked to the question of cultural identity because of the expression of regionalism in the Rio Grande do Sul state.