Evolution of the studies about desertification in the Brazilian Northeast

Abstract

Starting from a breaf environmental characterization of the northeast area and inserting the theme of the desertificação in the regional studies, it was possible to select the main works accomplished in regional scale, which were here presented in detail. The objective is to show the results found up to now, to compare the employed methodologies and to suggest possible roads to be taken in the studies of the desertification in the Brazilian Northeast

Keywords

• Desertification
• methodologies
• Brazilian northeast