Logistics and intensive agriculture in the cerrado : the new brazilian railroad system
Ricardo Castillo, Vitor Pires Vencovsky, Vanderlei Braga
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Abstract: As from the middle of the 1990s, in the wake of neo-liberal policies and of the programs of the partial denationalization of the means of transport and communications in Brazil, a new railroad system has made its appearance, a result of the combination of, on one hand, the reorganization...
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Abstract: As from the middle of the 1990s, in the wake of neo-liberal policies and of the programs of the partial denationalization of the means of transport and communications in Brazil, a new railroad system has made its appearance, a result of the combination of, on one hand, the reorganization of the old network, functioning as a concession to private companies and, on the other, the implantation of a new network. The expansion of the lines and the topology of the new rail yards are due directly to the influence of modern agricultural production in areas of the Cerrado biome. As a consequence of this new regulatory mechanism, the relationships between railroad and territory and between railroad and the cities have changed radically and the Brazilian railroad system has become a lucrative business at the service of a few agents and a few economic activities and has ceased to be a public service favoring a socially broader spatial mobility
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Logistics and intensive agriculture in the cerrado : the new brazilian railroad system
Ricardo Castillo, Vitor Pires Vencovsky, Vanderlei Braga
Logistics and intensive agriculture in the cerrado : the new brazilian railroad system
Ricardo Castillo, Vitor Pires Vencovsky, Vanderlei Braga
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Terrae: geosciences, geography, environment v. 8, n. 1-2, n. 19-25, 2011 |