Vale do Rio Doce (Valley of the Sweet River): Frontier, industrialization and the collapse of the social environment

Abstract

The valley from sweet river - VRD has motivated research in several areas of knowledge on the part of domestic and foreign researchers. The interest is attracted by the variety of overlapping social and environmental processes, socio-economic, socio-cultural and political. The VRD remained as open border until mid-twentieth century, when finally ended the availability of land and waxed forward pioneer. Concomitant to the settlement, economic occupation and formation of urban areas, if implemented by state action major investment projects, particularly in the areas of steel and mining... Keywords: Minas Gerais; Valley from Sweet River; Pioneer front; Front of demographic expansion; Major Capital Investment.