INTEGRATING TEACHING, RESEARCH AND PROBLEM SOLVING: AN EXPERIENCE IN PROGRESS AT MUCURI VALLEY REGION (BRAZIL)

摘要

This short article describes an interdisciplinary project that seeks to integrate teaching, research and real life problem solving. It concerns to the question: how to achieve development respecting the natural resources of the Mucuri Valley region in the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil. Using geographic information as a guiding axis, the technological support for interdisciplinary dialogues is provided by Geographic Information Systems, integrating data, information, techniques, methods and people from different fields of knowledge.