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The Universidade Federal do Ceará has 12 sectoral libraries: Science and Technology Library, Health Sciences Library, Human Sciences Library, Law Library, Architecture Library, Mathematics Library, Marine Sciences Library (Labomar) Agricultural Economics Library, Physics Library, Graduate Library Economics, the FEAAC Library and Postgraduate in Engineering Library.

With well structured library system, online access, at www.biblioteca.ufc.br a set of services is available, such as: access to the Integrated Library System (Pergamum); Search at the acquis, access to SciFinder Scholar, access to the proxy server (Journals Portal Capes) and access to TEDE (Theses and Dissertations).From preliminary survey, considering assets related to the geographical agenda, it sums up to 8,350 titles available in 15,704 copies, concentrated in the libraries of Science and Technology (3,631 books) and Architecture (2,801).It also is whorthing to note the availability of collection at other vehicles: 2,619 periodicals, 1,048 Flyers, 1633 Theses and Dissertations, 294 Videotapes, 682 Monographies in undergraduate and specialization. In order to complement the cited literature, was set up in the bibliographic program Laboratories and whose collection is around 1,000 titles.

Finally, it should be noted the commitment of the Board of the Program of Higher Administration at the Universidade Federal do Ceará to allow reinforcement of the acquis. In the first area of the college, was adopted Professors convincing policy of the importance of allocation of a portion of funds from their projects to acquire books. In the second area, there is sensitivity of the Senior Management, with the implementation of collection of acquisition policy for the university libraries, consisting in actions aimed at postgraduates and among which is Geography.In late 2011 the Federal University of Ceará acquired Springer 2010 collection, providing a total of 7,826 electronic books online, in various areas of knowledge, expanding its collection, including in the field of Geography.

EGRESSOS

Origin of the Master Degree Students

Origin of the Doctorate Degree Students

Egressing students of the Postgraduate Program in Geography – Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

From the 77 graduates:

3 PhD,

14 PhD Students,

60 Masters

Occupation of the Graduates

11 Professors at Public Universities (Effective)

13 Professors at Public Universities (Substitute)

2 Teachers at Private Universities, Particulares

3 Teachers at Federal Institute of Ceará

17 Teachers at Public School,

1 Environmental Technician,

17 Consultants,

9 Doctorate Without Link,

3 Other

Territorial and Enviromental Dynamics

Studies on the environmental and territorial dynamics, from the Brazilian Northeast, characterized substrate of action and research of the Professors of the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). The singularities of the coastal formations, on the northern border, inland in the vast southern arc having as reference the territory of the state of Ceará, allow the composition of a wide and articulated range of open investigations to dialogue with scenic views of "Sertão".

The "Sertão" is the environmental and territorial transformations that colors the northeastern imaginary in accordance with the direct representations along the drought and the aridness of the Brazilian northeastern badland. This picture features the semiarid region of the Brazilian Northeast, from colonial period until the first half of the twentieth century, as a domain deprived of "coastal measurements", which were predominant in the occupation of other regions.

The "Sertão" was the image of a society victimized by drought, by migration and poverty. The Brazilian badland setting was related to the activities of the extensive agricultural cycles, so it contrasted with the coastal zone of restricted occupation and rarefied housing, which had fishing and subsistence agriculture as main activities. Few cities were directed to port activities, responsible for the flow of regional production and reception of industrialized goods from other states and countries. In the last quarter of the twentieth century, there is a change of mentality that favors the transformation of the image and the possibilities of the semi-arid northeast, and the articulation of the binomial Coast and Badland.

The forms of contemporary modernization interconnected challenges of democratic management of the institutions with environmental regulations, tourist demands, changes in agriculture and rapid urbanization. The geographical reality of Ceará diversifies and expands links with other Brazilian and international realities.

It gives, for example, the strengthening of public policies focused on tourism activities (PRODETUR-NE), agribusiness (hydro dams and canals interconnection), social (regionalized multinational projects, with neoliberal or developmentalist cut). The action of the government is given through the construction of major road works (roads, railways, ports and airports) the development and implementation of policies aimed at tourism, industrialization, agricultural modernization and attracting groups from the Brazilian South Central region and other countries. Through tax incentives, this have been changing the organization ans structure of the northeastern space.

The implementation of these activities, both on the coast and in thebadland, has interfered with the natural and social dynamics, generating environmental, social and economical significant impacts. They cause deforestation, soil depletion, desertification, pollution of water resources. Raise the redistribution of rural population, migration to urban areas and slums, not only to the large but also to the medium-sized cities. Intensify the conflict in the countryside, and unemployment and violence in urban areas.
Unfortunately, the growth raised has not been enough to overcome the Brazilian situation of social and economic inequality; nor lessen the impact caused on the natural geosystems. And this emergence of conflicts and structural rearrangements of the semi-arid northeastern reality broadens the focus to think spatial correspondences with other Brazilian regional realities (The "Sertões" Cerrado, Coastal South-Central, the great American southern border, Amazon, of the urban centers and peripheries) and world (Within America and beyond the Atlantic).

With that academic partnerships are forged open to interchanges of academic analysis and to prepare ground for innovative epistemological concepts and for Geography studies that are apparently "regional", but, in fact, are drawn to local and global scales with integral perspective.

Through research, academic papers, reports and technical advices, the Postgraduate Program in Geography has renewed forms of monitoring these interventions in the northeastern territory; as it justifies, not only the consolidation of the area of concentration of Environmental and Territorial Dynamics, as the normative reconstruction of its lines of research: Socio-environmental studies and socio-territorial studies, pointing to diversification of related thematic areas.

The Geography's Postgraduate Program of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) turns twelve years in 2016. The Master Degree Program was implemented in 2004, and the Doctorate Degree Program was approved in 2008. Currently, we have 99 students, of which 70% are enrolled at the Doctorate Program.
The Postgraduate Program was consolidated after its third The School for Advanced Studies (CAPES) evaluation, in which the Program was graded 5 (the maximum grade), and this took place in the triennium of 2011 to 2013. The Program proceeds in the challenge of expanding its national and international reach.
The board of the Program entails 18 permanent Professors from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), from which seven are Ambassadorial Scholars of Productivity (Pq-CNPq); 1 Professor of the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV); 2 visiting Professors from the Texas A & M University (College Station, Texas) and 1 Secretary.
Our faculty members teach subjects, conduct research and extension activities in the concentration area of "Environmental and Territorial Dynamics", which has two lines of research: "Environmental Study of Coastal Zone" and "Nature, Countryside and City in the semi-arid". As Professors and Researchers, we contribute in the improvement of contemporary geographic scientific production and in the training of professional excellence.
In accordance with terms included in the triennium Assessment Report of 2011/2013, we currently have one of the most significant productions in the area of Geography in Brazil, where we are dedicated to the training of 99 graduate students, including 13 students of the Agreement DINTER (Inter PhD) CAPES with two Universities of Roraima - the State University of Roraima (UERR) and Federal University of Roraima (UFRR); we also supervise 8 Postdoctoral researchers.
In May of 2015, we conducted the 33rd Congress of the Latin American Conference of Geographers (CLACG) and, in September of the same year, we held the XIV Urban Geography Symposium; which led us to strengthening the representativeness of the Program, in academic communities, at national and international level.
In 2015, we initiated two projects on an international scale fomented by the School for Advanced Studies (CAPES) with the course coordinated by Prof. Jeovah Meireles, "The Marine-Coastal Systems in the face of the Global Change", which includes the participation of the Prof.Dr. Sergio Rossi, a senior researcher at Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB);and the project Special Visiting Professor (SVP / CAPES) entitled "Wind Energy Impacts in Northeast Coast: prospects for building an integrated view of the 'clean' energy production in Brazil", coordinated by Prof..Adryane Gorayeb in partnership with Prof. PhD Christian Brännström Texas A & M University.
In 2016, with external funding (National Science Foundation / US and US Fulbright / CAPES), we had the approval of the project "Urban Water Provisioning and Household Water Security in Northeast Brazil", under the coordination of Professor.Wendy Jepson PhD from Texas A & M University and the local coordination of Professor.Adryane Gorayeb.
Thereby, we fulfill a key role in qualifying and debating of natural and human issues of the Northeast and Brazil, essential to the pursuit of social and environmental sustainability of our country.